''Don't Tell the Wife'' is a 1927 American
silent romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...
film directed by
Paul L. Stein and starring
Irene Rich
Irene Frances Rich ( Luther; October 13, 1891 – April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films, talkies, and radio.
Early life
Rich was born in Buffalo, New York.
At age 17, she wed Elvo Elcourt Deffenbaugh at ...
,
Huntley Gordon and
Lilyan Tashman.
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Cast
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Irene Rich
Irene Frances Rich ( Luther; October 13, 1891 – April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films, talkies, and radio.
Early life
Rich was born in Buffalo, New York.
At age 17, she wed Elvo Elcourt Deffenbaugh at ...
as Mrs. Cartier
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Huntley Gordon as Jacques Cartier
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Lilyan Tashman as Suzanna
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Otis Harlan
Otis Harlan (December 29, 1865 – January 20, 1940) was an American actor and comedian. He voiced Happy, one of the Seven Dwarfs in the Disney animated film '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. This made him the earliest born actor to feature ...
as Magistrate
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William Demarest
Carl William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 28, 1983) was an American actor, known especially for his supporting roles in screwball comedies by Preston Sturges and as Uncle Charley in the sitcom ''My Three Sons'' from 1965-72. Demares ...
as Ray Valerian
* Margaret Gray as Frie
See also
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List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and/or Vitaphone, talking movies produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and its subsidiary First National Pictures, First National (FN) for the years 1927–1931.
Synchronized Sound ...
References
Bibliography
* John T. Weaver. ''Twenty Years of Silents, 1908-1928''. Scarecrow Press, 1971.
External links
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1927 films
1927 romantic comedy films
Films directed by Paul L. Stein
American silent feature films
American films based on plays
Films based on works by Victorien Sardou
Warner Bros. films
American black-and-white films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
English-language romantic comedy films
Silent American romantic comedy films
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