this film be available from david shepard and kino on the before hollywood there be fort lee and nj and although that be a shortened version with just the behind the scene movie section . i be not sure if blackhawk film only have a film print of these part and or they edit out the other scene . the original blackhawk version be retitled a movie romance . the complete feature do survive and but the preprint for this version have some nitrate decomposition and and a couple of section look bad and so that may be why blackhawk version be edit . direct by maurice tourneur and the film have tourneur play himself and or more likely a caricature of himself . supposedly and director emile chautard and future director joseph von sternberg also can be spot . country lass mary ( doris kenyon ) long for a romantic man to sweep her off her foot . she dream of a troubadour that will woo her and but be constantly interrupt by the only available local boy and johnny applebloom . meanwhile and a film company from new york ( actually new jersey ) be film a western in the countryside . mary see an indian ( in full headdress ) and raise an alarm spoil a scene that the movie company be film . she be immediately attract to the dashing film star kenneth driscoll ( robert warwick ) . he encourage her to leave her home and try to become an actress in the big city . when she arrive at the studio and she discover that everything about the movie be fake . the door and wall be just flat that be hastily assemble for the set . that lanky walk of the western hero or the happy skip of the heroine be just act too . the set be on a big revolving stage and so the angle of the sun can even be manipulate . the black attendant at the studio sign all the movie star autograph photo . the sign on the wall say positively no smoking and but everybody smoke anyway . even the title of the film ( which be illustrate nicely ) emphasize everything fake about the movie make life . movie star driscoll be just as disenchant with the ho hum of everyday film making . he make a temporary split from girlfriend vivian ( june elvidge ) to pursue this exciting country girl . his plan be dash when mary screen test be a stinker . we do not get to see the actual film and but only the audience pain reaction to it . mary be devastate and but she doesn not want to admit to everyone back home that she be a failure and so she continue to see driscoll and we she have lunch with him in the studio cafeteria along with other extra dress a policeman and soldier and cowboy and etc . mary decides to stay with driscoll . at a party with their movie friend and she agree to marry him although there be not much love between them . surprisingly and her mother appear and with a cake especially for mary birthday . this cause mary to re evaluate her future . this film have all kind of fascinate scene of studio and movie set and dress room and edit room and etc . if you have always wonder what go on behind the scene when a silent film be be make and this movie peek behind the curtain .