Name: He Comes Up Smiling
Director: Allan Dwan
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1918
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Herbert Standing, Frank Campeau, Bull Montana

About He Comes Up Smiling

Bank clerk Jerry Martin's job is minding the canary Agamemnon, and when the bird escapes he chases it, meets hobos, and quits. Baron Bean steals his clothes while he bathes, so Jerry puts on broker William Batchelor's suit and cards. He meets broker John Bartlett and daughter Billie, stops a corner against Bartlett, comes into a fortune, and wins Billie.

Cast & crew

More about He Comes Up Smiling

Allan Dwan directed. Douglas Fairbanks produced and plays Jerry, from a scenario by Frances Marion with Theodore Reed as editor. Paramount released it on September 15, 1918.

Themes

A clerk chasing a canary
Clothes stolen at a swim
A borrowed broker's name
A corner that fails
Douglas Fairbanks
canary
hobos
impostor
stockbroker
Billie

Look

Hugh McClung shot the film, including the Bear Valley scenes.

Preservation

The film survives incomplete.

Notes

Marjorie Daw plays Billie. Herbert Standing plays Mike. Frank Campeau plays John Bartlett. Bull Montana plays Baron Bean.
Fairbanks had played Jerry on stage in 1914, with Patricia Collinge.