''Here Come the Girls'' is a 1918 American

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featuring Harold Lloyd about activities in a corset shop. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the

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Cast

* Harold Lloyd * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * William Blaisdell *

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* Lige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley) * Genevieve Cunningham * Billy Fay (credited as William Fay) *

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* Bud Jamison *

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* Dorothea Wolbert

Reception

Like many American films of the time, ''Here Come the Girls'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the

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cut all but one scene of the young women behind the curtain showing bare shoulders and legs and four scenes of the women's skirts being pulled up by ribbon exposing legs.

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* 1918 films 1918 short films 1918 comedy films Silent American comedy films American silent short films American black-and-white films Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub

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