Slipping Wives

<h2 id="plot">Plot</h2>
<p>Priscilla is married to an <a href="/facts/Artist/7kfrXB5P">artist</a> named Leon. However Leon has not been showing much interest in his <a href="/facts/Wife/QzV4aoEu">wife</a>, so she hatches a plot to win back his <a href="/facts/Affection/omCYeoBy">affections</a>. Ollie plays the <a href="/facts/Butler/IeyFoVm9">butler</a>. Stan arrives at the door to sell <a href="/facts/Paint/Q176AsIG">paint</a> and has a fight with Ollie. Priscilla employs Stan to "make love to her" and ensure Leon becomes <a href="/facts/Jealous/SpGzDLWC">jealous</a>. Ollie has to wash and dress Stan and make him look presentable enough to fool Leon at a dinner party that night. Priscilla admits to Leon what she has done and he pulls a <a href="/facts/Gun/SHApdBYr">gun</a> to teach the 'home-wrecker' a lesson. Leon corners Stan and admits he is just <a href="/facts/Acting/YEX0jSJv">acting</a> to make Priscilla think he's really jealous. Ollie does not realise this and he chases Stan out of the house with a <a href="/facts/Rifle/H3mJx7U4">rifle</a>. Ollie returns looking shaken. A <a href="/facts/Police_officer/I8r0VjSm">police officer</a> follows him and says "You nearly blew my brains out". Leon and Priscilla <a href="/facts/Hug/Ibm0sFYq">hug</a>.
</p><p>Stan had been enthralling the party guests with a pantomine version of Samson and Delilah, ending with Samson pulling down  the temple "and killing three thousand Philadelphians".
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<h2 id="cast">Cast</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Priscilla_Dean/Xaj93JWy">Priscilla Dean</a> as Wife</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Oliver_Hardy/MSe1QlsF">Oliver Hardy</a> as Butler</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Stan_Laurel/Vw2ydC7V">Stan Laurel</a> as Ferdinand Flamingo</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Herbert_Rawlinson/f8p1x9kl">Herbert Rawlinson</a> as Husband</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Albert_Conti/xGs19jwD">Albert Conti</a> as Hon. Winchester Squirtz</li></ul>
<h2 id="partial-remake">Partial remake</h2>
<p><i>Slipping Wives</i> was later reworked into the team's penultimate short film <i><a href="/facts/The_Fixer_Uppers/0lnM1klv">The Fixer Uppers</a></i>, made in 1935.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

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<ul><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017405/"><i>Slipping Wives</i></a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/laurel_and_hardy_the_lost_films_of_laurel_and_hardy_slipping_wives"><i>Slipping Wives</i></a> at <a href="/facts/Rotten_Tomatoes/rLs7ktSY">Rotten Tomatoes</a></li>
<li>Fritzi Krammer, <a href="https://moviessilently.com/2016/03/06/slipping-wives-1927-a-silent-film-review/"><i>Slipping Wives</i> (1927): A Silent Film Review</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Progressive Silent Film List: Slipping Wives at silentera.com <a href="https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SlippingWives1927.html" target="_blank">https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SlippingWives1927.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Everson, William K. (1967). The Complete Films of Laurel and Hardy. New York City: Citadel Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-8065-0146-4. <a href="0-8065-0146-4" target="_blank">0-8065-0146-4</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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