The Wrong Mr. Wright

Feb 27, 1927

1h 10m

★ 0.0

A hilarious mixup in the corset and ladies' lingerie business, making a most thrilling and funny picture.

Overview

Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Universal Jewel

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Cast

Seymour White

Jean Hersholt

Henrietta

Enid Bennett

Teddy

Dorothy Devore

Bond

Walter Hiers

Jay Belasco

Mathilde Comont

Trayguard

Edgar Kennedy

Wright

Robert Anderson

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