A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Tiny Sandford (left) and Charley Chase (with duck). Photograph: courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Cast: Charley Chase [Charley], Eugenia Gilbert [his wife], Edith Fellows [their daughter], Spec O’Donnell [the wife’s brother], Tiny Sandford [the theater manager], Symona Boniface [an actress onscreen], Rolfe Sedan [an actor onscreen], Lyle Tayo [a theater patron (finger gag)], Harry Semels [a theater patron], Charlie Hall [a theater patron], Jack Hill [a theater patron], Sam Lufkin [a theater patron], John T. Prince [a theater patron], Charley Rogers [a theater patron], Leo Sulky [a theater patron], Anita Garvin

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Hal Roach. Scenario by Charley Chase, from a screen story by Leo McCarey. Film editor, Richard C. Currier. / Released 11 May 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot 21 November 1927 through 2 December 1927. Fellows’ film debut. / [?] Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects?

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Theaters: Film

Listing updated: 29 October 2022.

References: Everson-American p. 310f; Kerr-Silent p. 321; Lahue-World p. 133 : Website-IMDb.