Forgotten Sweeties
About Forgotten Sweeties
Thurston, played by Charley Chase, is married to Lillian and is badly forgetful. A former sweetheart, now newly married, moves in across the hall with her husband Ira. Both couples decide to move. Lillian leaves and tells the landlady to give Thurston the key to their new place. The newlyweds take Thurston's old apartment. He comes home late, forgets, and walks in on his former sweetheart asleep. Their cat is scratching the carpet. He carries the cat across the hall into what he thinks is the empty flat, and the new tenant, played by James Finlayson, objects.
Cast & crew
More about Forgotten Sweeties
James Parrott directed. Hal Roach produced it. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. Len Powers photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited it. Pathé Exchange released the two-reeler on April 10, 1927. It was shot December 20–29, 1926, production number B-18. Copyrighted April 11, 1927.
Themes
Making
Roach shot the apartment comedy in ten days at the end of December 1926, with Pathé taking the release the following April.
Look
Len Powers photographed the hallway and the two apartments.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
Silent Era reports 16mm reduction prints in private collections. A digital copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Anita Garvin plays Lillian, Thurston's wife. Shirley Palmer plays the bride. Mitchell Lewis plays Ira, the groom.
- Charlie Hall plays a bellboy. Lyle Tayo plays the landlady.
- The newlyweds' longhair tabby is the reason Thurston and the bride meet again in the hall, and the reason he opens the wrong door later.
- Silent Era lists surviving 16mm reduction prints in private collections and marks the short as public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Thurston picks up the newlyweds' cat in the hall and meets his former sweetheart.
- He walks into the old apartment at night and then dumps the cat on James Finlayson's new tenant.
Also available
- Internet Archive (FORGOTTENSWEETIESCharleyChaseSilentAHalRoachComedy)
