A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Why Girls Say No
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Leo McCarey

Cast: Marjorie Daw [Becky], Creighton Hale [the boy], Max Davidson [Papa Whisselberg], Ann Brody, Spec O’Donnell [Maxie], Oliver Hardy [the policeman], Jesse De Vorska [Mr. Ginsberg], Noah Young [the angry motorist]

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / Produced by Hal Roach. Scenario by Stan Laurel. Supervising director, F. Richard Jones. Assistant directors, Joe Barry, Lloyd French and Jean Yarbrough. Cinematography by Frank Young. Film editor, Richard C. Currier. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. / Released 20 February 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot 9-21 September 1926. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Jews - Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen

Listing updated: 10 February 2011.

References: Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.