The Cheerful Fraud is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Otis Harlan. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.Progressive Silent Film List: The Cheerful Fraud at silentera.com The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Cheerful Fraud It is based on a 1925 novel of the same title by British writer Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne.Goble p. 59
Plot Sir Michael Fairlie pretends to be the new employee at the residence owned by the Bytheways, in order to spend time with their social secretary, whom he has encountered in a London rainstorm, . Meanwhile, a notorious crook turns up at the house pretending to be Sir Michael, with an eye on stealing family jewels. The confusion is compounded when a blackmailer also arrives.
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Preservation The film is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Cheerful Fraud
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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