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The Cheerful Fraud
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6945 feet
Directed by William A. Seiter

Cast: Reginald Denny [Sir Michael Fairlie], Gertrude Olmstead [Ann Kent], Otis Harlan [Mr. Bytheway], Emily Fitzroy [Mrs. Bytheway], Charles Gerrard [Steve], Gertrude Astor [Rose]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Leigh Jacobson, Sam Mintz, Rex Taylor and William A. Seiter, from an adaptation by Harvey Thew of the novel The Cheerful Fraud by Kenneth Robert Gordon. Cinematography by Arthur Todd. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 6 December 1926 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP23400]. Premiered circa 23 December 1926 in New York, New York. Released 16 January 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy: Crime.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 October 2014.

References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 8, 144, 147; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 57 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.