''Business Before Honesty'' is a 1918 American
silent comedy film
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featuring
Oliver Hardy.
Cast
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Harry Gribbon
Harry Peter Gribbon (June 9, 1885 – July 28, 1961) was an American film actor, comedian and director known for ''The Cameraman'' (1928), ''Show People'' (1928) and ''Art Trouble'' (1934). He appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 a ...
as Willie Steal
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Oliver Hardy as The Blind Man (credited as Babe Hardy)
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Eddie Barry as Nellie
* May Emory as The Woman (as Mae Emory)
* Helen Lynch as Her Daughter
Reception
Like many American films of the time, ''Business Before Honesty'' was subject to restrictions and cuts by
city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 1, of two closeups of a fifty cent piece, and, Reel 2, scene of man looking suggestively at seat after first scene of pouring gasoline into safe.
See also
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List of American films of 1918
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Oliver Hardy filmography
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These are the films of Oliver Hardy as an actor. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy as a team, see: Laurel and Hardy films
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References
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1918 films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1918 comedy films
1918 short films
Silent American comedy films
American comedy short films
1910s American films
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