Slipping Wives
- April 3, 1927 (1927-04-03)
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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- Slipping Wives at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Slipping Wives at Rotten Tomatoes
- Fritzi Krammer, Slipping Wives (1927): A Silent Film Review
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- The Bohemian Girl (1936)
- Our Relations (1936)
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- 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
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