"Nellie, the Beautiful...

Released January 1924
Goldwyn Pictures
Distributed by Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan Corp.

"Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model" is an extant film.
A digital copy of this film was repatriated to the Library of Congress from the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in March of 2011. A total of 194 American films were listed as being in the exchange by the Gosfilmofond of Russia.

Dates Issued
1924
2/3/1924
Physical Description
7 reels; 6,533 ft.
Notes
Director: Emmett Flynn
From the play by Owen Davis.
Star: Claire Windsor (Nellie)
Archive: Gosfilmofond Of Russia (Moscow) [Rur]
Copyright claimant: Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
Registration number: Lp19979, R90942 Feb. 1952.
Holdings: Foreign Archive
Completeness: complete
Record No.: 27254

   During the filming of the fire scenes, the players were accidentally trapped at the back of the set, Lew Cody, Claire Windsor, Mae Busch and others had to run for their lives, and through the flames. Miss Windsor’s back was so badly scorched that she had to be taken to the receiving hospital. The story was suppressed at the time. However, Emmett Flynn related it to the writer, the other day, praising Miss Windsor’s bravery and courage under suffering.
   "She happened to be the one to suffer most from the flames," said Flynn, "but she never uttered a complaint or a moan, through suffering severely. I have never known a braver girl."
   "She was just as fearless in every way during the filming of the railroad scenes and the others where real danger was encountered."   Movie Weekly

January 17, 1924
The Cawker City Ledger
- When Claire Windsor went to New York to film "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model," she was stoned by real gangsters while lying on the tracks of the New York elevated making scenes. The police had to be called to disperse the rowdies. Lew Cody, the villain, slipped and fell on his face in a fire scene, nearly suffocating. Hobart Bosworth ran so close to an ambulance that a wheel ran over his left foot. Mae Busch while riding in a taxicab, collided with a telephone pole; Lillian Tashman fell from a model display stand and cut a deep gash in her legs, which she values at $5000,000.
Is the film worth risking all the lives of the actors?--Contributed.