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The Brown Derby
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6500 or 6700? feet
Directed by Charles Hines

Cast: Johnny Hines [Tommy Burke], Diana Kane [Edith Worthing], Ruth Dwyer [Betty Caldwell], Flora Finch [Aunt Anna], Edmund Breese [John J. Caldwell], J. Barney Sherry [Captain Shay], Bradley Barker [Robert Farrell], Herbert Standing [Adolph Plummer], Harold Foshay [Frank Boyle], Bob Slater [Sam]

Johnny Hines Productions (C.C. Burr Pictures) production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Bert Wheeler, from the musical comedy play The Brown Derby by E.S. Morlin and Brian Marlow. Production management by Benny Berk. Assistant directors, Joe Bannon and Charlie Berner. Cinematography by George Peters, Al Wilson and Albert Wetzel. Film editor, George Amy. Intertitles written by John McGowan. Presented by C.C. Burr. / © 16 June 1926 by C.C. Burr Pictures [LP22817]. Released 4 July 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 July 2008.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 facing page 1; Sweeney-Coming pp. 103, 124; Weaver-Twenty p. 173 : Website-AFI.