The Cheerful Fraud (1926)

December. 27,1926

4.6

| Adventure Comedy Romance

A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.

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Cast

Reginald Denny as Sir Michael Fairlie

[1966] Assault on a Queen [1965] Cat Ballou [1955] Escape to Burma [1954] World for Ransom [1953] Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1953] Fort Vengeance

Gertrude Olmstead as Ann Kent

[1926] The Boob [1926] The Cheerful Fraud [1926] Torrent [1925] The Monster [1925] Cobra [1922] The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Otis Harlan as Mr. Bytheway

[1937] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1935] Western Frontier [1935] The Hoosier Schoolmaster [1934] I Can't Escape [1933] The Telegraph Trail [1932] Ride Him, Cowboy

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Reviews

boblipton

1926/12/27

A year after they had a hit with the social comedy SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT, director Seiter and actor Reginald Denny teamed up again in this sharply-turned farce. reminiscent of the sort that Clarence Badger was doing with Raymond Griffith over at Paramount.There are the usual complications that lead to the situations in this farce: an adventuress -- Gertrude Astor -- with incriminating letters, a young couple in love -- that's Denny and Gertrude Olmstead -- and a crook pretending to be Reginald Denny's character. The timing is brisk, the situations comical, the pratfalls well taken and if dialogue instead of titles might sharpen it a tad, the silent version we have is quite funny without them.