Skinner's Dress Suit
Cast & Crew
Harry Beaumont
Bryant Washburn
Hazel Daly
Harry Dunkinson
James C. Carroll
U. K. Houpt
Film Details
Synopsis
Skinner is a faithful employee, but lacks initiative. One morning, at the urging of his wife Honey, he promises to ask for a raise. On the way to work, however, he slowly loses his courage, and by the time he has his interview with his boss, he has gone from demanding a raise to suggesting an decrease in salary. Embarassed to admit to Honey that he had an attack of cold feet, he lies and tells her that he got the raise, taking the additional money from his private bank account. In celebration, Honey makes him buy a dress suit, and although it almost wipes out his bank account, he buys the clothes. Frantic that he has depleted his funds, Skinner is saved by his new suit when his affluent appearance gives him an entrée to some wealthy people with whom he is able to negotiate a big business deal for his firm. Rushing into his company's office with the order, he demands a raise and a partnership in the firm and wins both.
Director
Harry Beaumont
Cast
Bryant Washburn
Hazel Daly
Harry Dunkinson
James C. Carroll
U. K. Houpt
Florence Oberle
Frances Raymond
Marion Skinner
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Skinner's Dress Suit was also published as a novel in Boston in 1916. Universal Pictures released a new version of Skinner's Dress Suit in 1926, directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny; they remade the film in 1929, this time with the title Skinner Steps Out, directed by William James Craft and starring Glen Tryon. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.5135 and F2.5133.) This was the first in the "Skinner Series" of three films made by Essanay which were based on stories and novels by Henry Irving Dodge. It was bought by Victor Kremer in 1920 and redistributed through state rights channels.
