Madame Mystery
(1926) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel

Cast: Theda Bara [Madame Mysterieux], Tyler Brooke [hungry artist], James Finlayson [strugglering writer], Oliver Hardy [Captain Schmaltz], Fred Malatesta [‘The Man of a Thousand Eyes’], Martha Sleeper, Sam Brooks (Sammy Brooks), Helen Gilmore, William Gillespie, R.E. Madeson, Marguerite Gonzalez

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / Scenario by Carl Harbaugh, Krag Johnson, Grover Jones, Stan Laurel, Hal Roach and Hal Yates. Supervising director F. Richard Jones. Assistant directors Sherbourne Shields and Jean Yarbrough. Cinematography by Floyd Jackman. Intertitles by H.M. Walker. / Released 18 April 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / [?] The film may have been rereleased in the USA by Chadwick Pictures Corporation.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists [9.5mm reduction positive].

Listing updated: 16 October 2004.

References: Lahue-World p. 152b; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy p. 71; Vermilye-Twenties p. 132.