Underplayed Gems

Mind Your Manners (1953)

Mind Your Manners poster
Original title
Mind Your Manners!
Country
United States
Runtime
11 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This short film from 1953 teaches teenagers that being polite and well-dressed makes other people like them. It shows the benefits of good manners in everyday situations.

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What happens

Mind Your Manners is a Hollywood short drama film, produced by Coronet Instructional Media, and starring John Lindsay. The film demonstrates the benefits of being unfailingly polite and well mannered to everyone by showing teenagers how being polite and well-dressed is the key to making everyone like them. The film was released in 1953. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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