A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Smart Sex
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4800 feet
Directed by Fred Leroy Granville

Cast: Eva Novak [Rose], Frank Braidwood [Guy], Geoffrey Webb [Fred], Mayre Hall [Edith], C. Norman Hammond [Mr. Vaughn], Dorothy Hagan [Mrs. Vaughn], Calvert Carter [Mr. Haskins], Margaret Mann [Mrs. Haskins], Jim O’Neill [Danny], Evelyn McCoy [Dorothy]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Doris Schroeder, from a screen story by Emma Bell Clifton. Cinematography by Leland Lancaster. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 16 March 1921 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP16296]. Released March 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Girl and the Goose.

Comedy-Drama: Rural.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 December 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 37 : ClasIm-226 p. 42 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.