''Get 'Em Young'' is a 1926 American short comedy film starring
Stan Laurel.
Cast
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Harry Myers
Harry C. Myers (September 5, 1882 – December 25, 1938) was an American film actor and director, sometimes credited as Henry Myers. He performed in many short comedy films with his wife Rosemary Theby. Myers appeared in 330 films between 1908 ...
as Orvid Joy
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Eugenia Gilbert as The girl
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Stan Laurel as Summers, the butler
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Max Davidson
Max Davidson (May 23, 1875 – September 4, 1950) was a German-American film actor known for his comedic Jewish persona during the silent film era. With a career spanning over thirty years, Davidson appeared in over 180 films.
Career
Born i ...
as Isaac Goldberg, a lawyer
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Charlotte Mineau as Hired bride
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Fred Malatesta
Fred Malatesta (April 18, 1889 – April 8, 1952) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1915 and 1941. He was born in Naples, Italy, and died in Burbank, California.
Selected filmography
* '' Sherlock Hol ...
as Executor
* Ernest Wood as Lawrence Lavendar Virgin, a female impersonator (as Ernie Wood)
Production notes
Oliver Hardy was originally cast as Summers, the butler, in this short film, but had to be replaced before filming by Stan Laurel, who had not acted in films for about a year as he had been working as a writer and director, and with whom he would soon team up with at the
Hal Roach Studios. Hardy had been injured in a cooking accident at home where he burned his arm after a frying pan of scalding grease spilled onto it, and was still recovering when filming for ''Get 'em Young'' began. This accident forced Hardy to be removed from the cast of the
Mabel Normand film ''
Raggedy Rose
''Raggedy Rose'' is a 1926 film American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. The film was co-written by Stan Laurel, and directed by Richard Wallace.
Cast
* Mabel Normand as Raggedy Rose
* Carl Miller as Ted Tudor
* Max Davidson as Mo ...
'' as well.
Simon Louvish
Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scots-born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about ''Avram Blok'', a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and ...
, ''Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy'' (2001) p. 185
Theatre fire incident
This was the film being shown at the 1927
Laurier Palace Theatre Fire
The Laurier Palace Theatre fire, sometimes known as the Saddest fire or the Laurier Palace Theatre crush, occurred in a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec on Sunday, January 9, 1927. 78 people were killed. The theatre was located at 3215 Saint Ca ...
in Montreal, Canada, where 78 people died, all but one under age 16.
See also
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List of American films of 1926
A list of American films released in 1926.
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Shorts
See also
* 1926 in American television
* 1926 in the United States
References
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Stan Laurel filmography This is a list of films of Stan Laurel, as an actor without Oliver Hardy. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of ...
References
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{{Fred Guiol
1926 films
1926 short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1926 comedy films
Films directed by Fred Guiol
Films directed by Stan Laurel
Silent American comedy films
American comedy short films
1920s American films