What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)

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What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? is a 1963 American black-and-white short comedy-drama film created by Martin Scorsese while he studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. It is a story about a writer who becomes obsessed with a picture on his wall. The film stars Zeph Michaelis, Mimi Stark, Sarah Braveman, Fred Sica, and Robert Uricola.

Production

Scorsese intended to become a priest, but failed out of seminary. Consequently, he joined the New York University's Washington Square College (now known as the College of Arts and Science). There he met professor Haig P. Manoogian, head of the Department of Television, Motion Pictures and Radio, who he was impressed by his passion and energy. He began to learn the fundamentals of filmmaking.

In 1963, Scorsese wrote and directed his first short film What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? as part of New York University's summer program with the Edward L. Kingsley Foundation, the Screen Producers Guild and the Brown University Film Festival backing the project alongside Manoogian, who produced it. The film features music by Richard H.

The film's negative was cut incorrectly by a student so a professor asked Thelma Schoonmaker, who was also participating in the summer program, to help Scorsese. Schoonmaker worked with him on his first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) and in 1980, she won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Raging Bull (1980).

Scorsese says of the work: "My little film had all the tricks and the fun of just putting pictures together in slow motion and fast motion and stills, and intercutting with mattes the way Truffaut would do in Jules and Jim. It had no depth at all, but it was a lot of fun. And I won a scholarship, so my father was able to use it for the tuition for the next year ...

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