The Cheerful Fraud

The Cheerful Fraud
Directed byWilliam A. Seiter
Written byLeigh Jacobson
Sam Mintz
Rex Taylor
Harvey Thew
William A. Seiter
Based onThe Cheerful Fraud
by Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringReginald Denny
Gertrude Olmstead
Otis Harlan
CinematographyArthur L. Todd
Edited byJohn Rawlins
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • January 16, 1927 (1927-01-16)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
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The Cheerful Fraud is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Otis Harlan. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.[1][2] It is based on a 1925 novel of the same title by British writer Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne.[3]

Plot

Sir Michael Fairlie pretends to be the new employee at the residence owned by the Bytheways, in order to spend time with their social secretary, whom he has encountered in a London rainstorm, . Meanwhile, a notorious crook turns up at the house pretending to be Sir Michael, with an eye on stealing family jewels. The confusion is compounded when a blackmailer also arrives.

Cast

Preservation

The film is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[4]

References

  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Cheerful Fraud at silentera.com
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Cheerful Fraud
  3. ^ Goble p. 59
  4. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Cheerful Fraud

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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