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Stan Laurel (left) and Harry Myers.
Frame enlargement: courtesy Kino Lorber.
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Get ’em Young
(1926) Hal Roach
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Fred Guiol [?] and Stan Laurel?
Cast: Harry Myers [Orvid Joy], Eugenia Gilbert [the girl], Stan Laurel [Summers, the butler], Max Davidson [Isaac Goldberg, a lawyer], Charlotte Mineau [the hired bride], Fred Malatesta [the executor], Ernie Wood (Ernest Wood) [Lawrence Lavender Virgin, a female inpersonator]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / Produced by Hal Roach. Scenario by Stan Laurel, James Parrott and Hal Yates. Supervising director, F. Richard Jones. [?] Teacher? Elva Nelson. Assistant directors, Sherbourne Shields and Jean Yarbrough. Properties by Leo Samwell and William Wessling. Cinematography by Frank Young, Harry W. Gerstad and Alvin Lange. Film editors, Harry W. Lieb and Leroy O. Lodwig. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 31 October 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot 19 June through 2 July 1926.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Exhibitors Herald, 23 October 1926, page ?] Returning from Europe to get a million dollars by fulfilling the provisions in a will, a young man falls in love and is married on the boat. As he has to be married in the presence of the executor of the will, he attempts to pass off his valet as the bride with little success. All is amicably settled and the girl is established as his wife.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 June 2024.
References: Skretvedt-Magic pp. 46, 47 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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