Along Came Auntie
| Along Came Auntie | |
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| Directed by | Fred Guiol Richard Wallace |
| Written by | Carl Harbaugh Stan Laurel James Parrott Jerome Storm Beatrice Van H. M. Walker Frank Wilson Hal Yates |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Oliver Hardy |
| Cinematography | Floyd Jackman Len Powers Jack Roach |
| Edited by | Richard C. Currier |
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Running time | 23 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Along Came Auntie is a 1926 American silent film featuring Glenn Tryon and Oliver Hardy.[1][2]
Plot
Mrs Remington Chow is concealing her second marriage from her aunt in order to receive a large inheritance. She is in financial difficulties and is thinking of taking in lodgers again much to the dismay of the main. A man comes to the door with a bulldog and demands she pays her debt. As the maid goes out the man slips in.
Mr Chow comes back from holiday as her first husband is entertaining her with a violin. The debt collector is hiding in the piano. As he emerges he gets tangled in the fight between husbands. Aunt Alvira arrives. Mrs Chow says she is still married to Vincent. Mrs Chow says they are friends playing a rough game "Duck the Knob". Mrs Chow tells her husband to pretend to be the lodger.
Auntie likes Vincent and sits on his knee. She spies Mrs Chow kissing who she thinks is the lodger and gets Vincent to interject. Mr Chow gets his gun.
Cast
- Glenn Tryon - Mr. Chow, the 2nd husband
- Vivien Oakland - Mrs. Remington Chow, the wife
- Oliver Hardy - Mr. Vincent Belcher, the first husband
- Tyler Brooke - The Under-Sheriff
- Martha Sleeper - Marie, the maid
- Lucy Beaumont - Aunt Alvira
See also
References
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Along Came Auntie". Silent Era. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ^ "Along Came Auntie". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved December 29, 2015.