Slipping Wives is a 1927 American silent short comedy film starring Priscilla Dean with Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy.
Plot
Priscilla is married to an artist named Leon. However Leon has not been showing much interest in his wife, so she hatches a plot to win back his affections. Ollie plays the butler. Stan arrives at the door to sell paint and has a fight with Ollie. Priscilla employs Stan to "make love to her" and ensure Leon becomes jealous. 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 gun to teach the 'home-wrecker' a lesson. Leon corners Stan and admits he is just acting to make Priscilla think he's really jealous. Ollie does not realise this and he chases Stan out of the house with a rifle. Ollie returns looking shaken. A police officer follows him and says "You nearly blew my brains out". Leon and Priscilla hug.
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".
Cast
- Priscilla Dean as Wife
- Oliver Hardy as Butler
- Stan Laurel as Ferdinand Flamingo
- Herbert Rawlinson as Husband
- Albert Conti as Hon. Winchester Squirtz
Partial remake
Slipping Wives was later reworked into the team's penultimate short film The Fixer Uppers, made in 1935.2
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Slipping Wives.- Slipping Wives at IMDb
- Slipping Wives at Rotten Tomatoes
- Fritzi Krammer, Slipping Wives (1927): A Silent Film Review
References
Progressive Silent Film List: Slipping Wives at silentera.com https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SlippingWives1927.html ↩
Everson, William K. (1967). The Complete Films of Laurel and Hardy. New York City: Citadel Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-8065-0146-4. 0-8065-0146-4 ↩