Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes

Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926)

The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he's shutting her shop down. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Napoleon has invented a plaster that restores youth. The dean accidentally sits on the plaster and reverts back to his younger days when he himself used to chase college girls. Complications ensue.

Date of release
1926-10-02
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
20m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Stan Laurel, F. Richard Jones

Casting

Interesting facts

Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes is an American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and Stan Laurel, starring James Finlayson, Ted Healy, Charlotte Mineau, and Helene Chadwick. It was released by Pathé Exchange on October 3, 1926.

Production

The film's title, clearly a play on the 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos, was the brainchild of H. M. Walker, as were all of the film's title cards. Perhaps returning the favor, Loos dubbed her novel's sequel, published in December 1927, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.

Vaudevillian Ted Healy made his screen debut here, as well as his only pre-talkie appearance. As for Stan Laurel, this may have been his final credited directorial assignment; shortly after the film's release, he was starting to be paired onscreen with Oliver Hardy, en route to the team's official debut on October 8, 1927, in The Second Hundred Years.

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