Nearly A Baker

Released October 15, 1917, Nearly a Baker is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

As of the writing of this article (November 30, 2017), no prints of this film are known to survive. If you have any information about the film, please contact us.

In the November 10, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World, on page 881 under a section entitled “Comments on the Films Exclusively by Our Own Staff,” the film is rbriefly eviewed. The text is here transcribed by Noreen O’Connor:

NEARLY A BAKER (Black Diamond), October 15.—A Slapstick comedy of ordinary merit, in which the lover of a baker’s daughter has considerable trouble with his courtship. Finally he succeeds in getting a position in the bakeshop where, before the close of the picture, a great deal of dough manipulation takes place.