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 Gay Deceiver
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by John M. Stahl

Cast: Lew Cody [Toto], Carmel Myers [Countess de Sano], Dorothy Phillips [Claire], Roy D’Arcy [Count de Sano], Marceline Day [Louise de Tillois], Malcolm McGregor [Robert Le Rivarol], Edward Connelly [Attorney Merinville], Antonio D’Algy (Tony D’Algy) [Merinville’s nephew]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Benjamin F. Glazer (Benjamin Glazer), from the play Toto. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye. Costume design by André-ani, Kathleen Kay and Maude Marsh. Assistant director, Sidney Algier. Cinematography by Maximilian Fabian (Max Fabian) and Antonio Gaudio (Tony Gaudio). Film editor, Margaret Booth. Intertitles written by Douglas Furber. / Released 19 September 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Blackmail - France: Paris

Listing updated: 9 October 2022.

References: Eames-MGM p. 31 : ClasIm-301 p. 47; ClasIm-330 p. 46 : Website-IMDb.