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Laura La Plante and Edward Everett Horton.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Poker Faces
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7808 feet
Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Cast: Edward Everett Horton [Jimmy Whitmore], Laura La Plante [Betty Whitmore, also known as Miss Banford], George Siegmann [George Dixon], Tom Ricketts [Henry Curlew], Tom O’Brien [Packey O’Neill, the prizefighter], Dorothy Revier [Mrs. O’Neill]; Leon Holmes [the office boy], [?] ? [the policeman], [?] ? [the veiled lady], [?] ? [the Curlew butler], [?] ? [Mr. Pemerly], [?] ? [the messenger boy], [?] Frank Staples?
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Harry A. Pollard Production; A Universal-Jewel Production]. / Produced by [?] Harry A. Pollard? Continuity (scenario) by Melville W. Brown, from an adaptation by Harry A. Pollard of a serial story by Edgar Franklin. Art direction by Charles D. Hall and Edgar Ulmer. Photographed (cinematography) by Charles Stumar (Charles J. Stumar). Supervising film editor, Maurice Pivar. Film editor, Daniel Mandell. Titles (intertitles written) by Walter Anthony. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 22 May 1926 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP22756]. Released 5 September 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Beware of Blondes. Website-IMDb is incorrect in attributing art direction to Edgar G. Ulmer, who still lived in Germany when this film was produced.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Athletes: Boxers
Listing updated: 13 July 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Drew-Speaking pp. 89, 98, 278; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 53 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc.
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