His Marriage Wow
About His Marriage Wow
On the wedding day in Highland Park, Harold Hope (Harry Langdon) waits in the wrong church. Guest Professor McGlumm (Vernon Dent) tells him that bride Agnes Fisher (Natalie Kingston) wants him only for the life insurance. They marry anyway, and her family moves in. Harold decides dinner has been poisoned. When his stomach turns, McGlumm drives him toward the hospital, and the ride shows who McGlumm really is.
Cast & crew
More about His Marriage Wow
Harry Edwards directed the short from a script by Arthur Ripley. Vernon Dent plays the wedding guest who turns out to be an escapee from an asylum. Automobile scenes were shot at the southeast corner of Beverly and Larchmont.
Themes
Background
A 1925 Mack Sennett two-reeler, made while Langdon was the studio's new featured comic and before his feature films.
Making
Langdon plays the nervous groom as a string of delays: the wrong church, the insurance scare, and then a hospital ride with the man who started the scare.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A print survives and has been issued on The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray. A copy is also on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Natalie Kingston plays the bride, Agnes Fisher. William McCall plays her father, and Thelma Hill plays the maid.
- John Bengtson traced the wedding dash to bungalows at 1257 and 1259 Edgemont Street, still standing, and to a corner drugstore.
- The same Beverly and Larchmont corner appears in a matching automobile shot in Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. (1924).
- The short is on The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray, and it was also in the out-of-print Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection.
Scenes
- Harold sits through the start of a wedding in the wrong church.
- McGlumm's drive to the hospital turns into a tear through 1925 Hollywood.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
- The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume 1 (Blu-ray)
