His Wooden Wedding
About His Wooden Wedding
Minutes before the wedding, a rejected suitor hands Charley an unsigned note saying the bride has a wooden leg, though she has only twisted an ankle. Charley calls off the ceremony and says she may keep the ring; the friend tries to steal it, hides it in a top hat, and picks up the wrong hat. Charley finds the ring in the hat he is holding and sails on the honeymoon liner alone. The bride learns why he left and follows on her father's yacht. On board he daydreams that a wooden leg is hereditary and that every child will have one, and the friend is exposed.
Cast & crew
More about His Wooden Wedding
Leo McCarey directed. Hal Roach produced. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. Glen Carrier photographed. Richard C. Currier edited. Pathé Exchange released it. It was shot from September 1 to September 12, 1925, as production B-3, in two reels. The copyright date is December 30, 1925.
Themes
Making
McCarey builds the short on one lie and one swapped hat. The cruise is the honeymoon Charley takes without the bride, until her father's yacht catches the liner.
Look
Glen Carrier photographed the wedding, the swapped hats, and the liner.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Charley Chase is the groom. Katherine Grant is the bride. Fred DeSilva is the rejected suitor. Gale Henry is the woman on the ship. John Cossar plays the bride's father.
- Lassie Lou Ahern appears as a daughter in the wooden-leg daydream.
- Columbia remade the story with Andy Clyde in 1938 as Ankles Away.
Scenes
- The rejected suitor slips Charley a note that the bride has a wooden leg.
- Charley dreams that the wooden leg is passed on, and every child limps.
Influenced
- Ankles Away (1938)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-his-wooden-wedding)
