Slipping Wives

1927 film

April 3, 1927 (1927-04-03)

Running time

23 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Full film

Slipping Wives is a 1927 American silent short comedy film starring Priscilla Dean with Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy.^[1]

Plot

Priscilla is married to an artist named Leon. However Leon has not been showing much interest in his wife, so she hatches a plot to win back his affections. Ollie plays the butler. Stan arrives at the door to sell paint and has a fight with Ollie. Priscilla employs Stan to "make love to her" and ensure Leon becomes jealous. Ollie has to wash and dress Stan and make him look presentable enough to fool Leon at a dinner party that night. Priscilla admits to Leon what she has done and he pulls a gun to teach the 'home-wrecker' a lesson. Leon corners Stan and admits he is just acting to make Priscilla think he's really jealous. Ollie does not realise this and he chases Stan out of the house with a rifle. Ollie returns looking shaken. A police officer follows him and says "You nearly blew my brains out". Leon and Priscilla hug.

Cast

Priscilla Dean as Wife
Oliver Hardy as Butler
Stan Laurel as Ferdinand Flamingo
Herbert Rawlinson as Husband
Albert Conti as Hon. Winchester Squirtz

Partial remake

Slipping Wives was later reworked into the team's penultimate short film The Fixer Uppers, made in 1935.^[2]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Slipping Wives at silentera.com
^ Everson, William K. (1967). The Complete Films of Laurel and Hardy. New York City: Citadel Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-8065-0146-4.

External links

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Fritzi Krammer, Slipping Wives (1927): A Silent Film Review

Filmography of Laurel and Hardy

Short films

Silent	The Lucky Dog (1921) 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) Duck Soup (1927) Slipping Wives (1927) Love 'em and Weep (1927) Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) With Love and Hisses (1927) Sugar Daddies (1927) Sailors, Beware! (1927) The Second Hundred Years (1927) Hats Off (1927) Do Detectives Think? (1927) Putting Pants on Philip (1927) The Battle of the Century (1927) Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) Flying Elephants (1928) The Finishing Touch (1928) From Soup to Nuts (1928) You're Darn Tootin' (1928) Their Purple Moment (1928) Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) Early to Bed (1928) Two Tars (1928) Habeas Corpus (1928) We Faw Down (1928) Liberty (1929) Wrong Again (1929) That's My Wife (1929) Big Business (1929) Double Whoopee (1929) Bacon Grabbers (1929) Angora Love (1929)
Talking	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) Berth Marks (1929) Men O' War (1929) Perfect Day (1929) They Go Boom (1929) The Hoose-Gow (1929) Night Owls (1930) Blotto (1930) Brats (1930) Below Zero (1930) Hog Wild (1930) The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) Another Fine Mess (1930) Be Big! (1931) Chickens Come Home (1931) Laughing Gravy (1931) Our Wife (1931) Come Clean (1931) One Good Turn (1931) Beau Hunks (1931) Helpmates (1932) Any Old Port! (1932) The Music Box (1932) The Chimp (1932) County Hospital (1932) Scram! (1932) Their First Mistake (1932) Towed in a Hole (1932) Twice Two (1933) Me and My Pal (1933) The Midnight Patrol (1933) Busy Bodies (1933) Dirty Work (1933) Oliver the Eighth (1934) Going Bye-Bye! (1934) Them Thar Hills (1934) The Live Ghost (1934) Tit for Tat (1935) The Fixer Uppers (1935) Thicker than Water (1935) Galaxy of Stars (1936 promotional)

Silent

The Lucky Dog (1921)
45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
Duck Soup (1927)
Slipping Wives (1927)
Love 'em and Weep (1927)
Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
With Love and Hisses (1927)
Sugar Daddies (1927)
Sailors, Beware! (1927)
The Second Hundred Years (1927)
Hats Off (1927)
Do Detectives Think? (1927)
Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
Leave 'Em Laughing (1928)
Flying Elephants (1928)
The Finishing Touch (1928)
From Soup to Nuts (1928)
You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Their Purple Moment (1928)
Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
Early to Bed (1928)
Two Tars (1928)
Habeas Corpus (1928)
We Faw Down (1928)
Liberty (1929)
Wrong Again (1929)
That's My Wife (1929)
Big Business (1929)
Double Whoopee (1929)
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Angora Love (1929)

Talking

Unaccustomed As We Are (1929)
Berth Marks (1929)
Men O' War (1929)
Perfect Day (1929)
They Go Boom (1929)
The Hoose-Gow (1929)
Night Owls (1930)
Blotto (1930)
Brats (1930)
Below Zero (1930)
Hog Wild (1930)
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
Another Fine Mess (1930)
Be Big! (1931)
Chickens Come Home (1931)
Laughing Gravy (1931)
Our Wife (1931)
Come Clean (1931)
One Good Turn (1931)
Beau Hunks (1931)
Helpmates (1932)
Any Old Port! (1932)
The Music Box (1932)
The Chimp (1932)
County Hospital (1932)
Scram! (1932)
Their First Mistake (1932)
Towed in a Hole (1932)
Twice Two (1933)
Me and My Pal (1933)
The Midnight Patrol (1933)
Busy Bodies (1933)
Dirty Work (1933)
Oliver the Eighth (1934)
Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
Them Thar Hills (1934)
The Live Ghost (1934)
Tit for Tat (1935)
The Fixer Uppers (1935)
Thicker than Water (1935)
Galaxy of Stars (1936 promotional)

Feature films

Pardon Us (1931)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Fra Diavolo / The Devil's Brother / Bogus Bandits (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
The Bohemian Girl (1936)
Our Relations (1936)
Way Out West (1937)
Swiss Miss (1938)
Block-Heads (1938)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Saps at Sea (1940)
Great Guns (1941)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Jitterbugs (1943)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
The Big Noise (1944)
Nothing But Trouble (1944)
The Bullfighters (1945)
Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Combined filmography
Stan Laurel filmography
Oliver Hardy filmography
Laurel and Hardy (animated TV series)
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy (1999)
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Music
The Sons of the Desert

v t e Films directed by Fred Guiol
The Battling Orioles (1924) The Haunted Honeymoon (1925) Say It with Babies (1926) The Cow's Kimona (1926) Along Came Auntie (1926) Get 'Em Young (1926) 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) Two-Time Mama (1927) Duck Soup (1927) Slipping Wives (1927) Love 'em and Weep (1927) Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) With Love and Hisses (1927) Sugar Daddies (1927) Sailors, Beware! (1927) Do Detectives Think? (1927) Pass the Gravy (1928) Their Purple Moment (1928) What's Your Racket? (1934) The Rainmakers (1935) Silly Billies (1936) Mummy's Boys (1936) Tanks a Million (1941) Miss Polly (1941) Hay Foot (1942) Here Comes Trouble (1948) As You Were (1951) Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952)

Films directed by Fred Guiol