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What Fools Men Are
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6087 feet
Directed by George Terwilliger

Cast: Faire Binney [Peggy Kendricks], Lucy Fox [Ola], Joseph Striker [Ralph Demarest], Huntley Gordon [Bartley Claybourne], Florence Billings [Kate Claybourne], J. Barney Sherry [Horace Demarest], Templar Saxe [Bayard Thomas], Harry Clay Blaney [Steve O’Malley]

Pyramid Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by American Releasing Corporation. / Scenario by Peter Milne, from the play The Flapper by Eugene Walter. Art direction by Ben Carré. Cinematography by Rudolph Mariner. Music cues arranged by J. Ernest Zivelli. Presented by Pyramid Pictures, Incorporated. / © 15 December 1922 by Pyramid Pictures, Incorporated [LP18747]. Released 29 October 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Love triangles

Listing updated: 13 October 2025.

References: Sherwood-Best p. 195 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.