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Louise Brooks and Gregory Kelly.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Show Off
Also known as Moi in France : {The Show-Off}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Ford Sterling [Aubrey Piper], Lois Wilson [Amy Fisher], Claire McDowell [Mother Fisher], Gregory Kelly [Joe Fisher], Louise Brooks [Clara], C.W. Goodrich [Pop Fisher]; Joseph Smiley [a railroad executive]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Malcolm St. Clair Production; A Paramount Picture]. / Associate producer, William Le Baron. Scenario by Pierre Collings, from the play The Show-Off by George Kelly. Cinematography by Lee Garmes. Supervising editor, Ralph Block. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 1926 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Released 16 August 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Exteriors were shot on-location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with interiors shot in Paramount’s Astoria studios on Long Island, New York. The play was subsequently filmed as Men Are Like That (1930).
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Braggarts - Inventions - Inventors - Salesmen - USA: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Listing updated: 26 August 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Drew-Speaking pp. 264-265, 289; Paris-Brooks pp. 156-157, 179, 557 : ClasIm-279 pp. 46-47.
Home video: DVD.
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