The Extra Girl is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and starring Mabel Normand.

Sue Graham (Normand) is a small town girl who travels to Hollywood to escape marriage, and in the hope of becoming a motion picture star.

She wins a contract with a studio on the strength of a picture of a quite different (and very attractive) girl sent instead of hers; but when she arrives the mistake is discovered.

She eventually gets the opportunity to screen test, but it turns out disastrously – although in a nod to the actress behind the character the director calls her "a natural comedian."

The trainer attempted to subdue the lion by jabbing it with a pitchfork, but in the confusion missed and hit Normand instead.