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Getting Gertie’s Garter
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6859 feet
Directed by E. Mason Hopper

Cast: Marie Prevost [Gertie Darling], Charles Ray [Ken Walrick], Harry Myers [Jimmy Felton], Sally Rand [Teddy Desmond], William Orlamond [Jenkins], Fritzi Ridgeway [Barbara Felton], Franklin Pangborn [Algy Brooks], Del Henderson (Dell Henderson) [Barry Scott], Lila Leslie [Teddy’s aunt]

Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California production; distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by F. McGrew Willis, from the play Getting Gertie’s Garter by Avery Hopwood and Wilson Collison. Cinematography by Hal Rosson (Harold Rosson). Edited by James Morley. Presented by John C. Flinn. / © 7 February 1927 by Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California [LP23646]. Released 28 February 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 19 February 1927, page 591] Between Gertie and her asinine fiancé, Ken and his jealous fiancée, the philandering Jimmy and his jealous wife, the amiable bachelor and his would-be amative aunt, not to mention a knowing butler, . . . the laughs are easy and frequent.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 January 2014.

References: ClasIm-223 p. 32 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.