Mighty Like a Moose
About Mighty Like a Moose
Mr. and Mrs. Moose are a homely couple. Each has plastic surgery and tells the other nothing. They meet at a party, do not know each other, and start to flirt, each thinking this is an affair. The dentist and the maid are in the house around them.
Cast & crew
More about Mighty Like a Moose
Leo McCarey directed. Charley Chase wrote it, with titles by H. M. Walker. Hal Roach produced it. Len Powers photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited. Pathé Exchange released it on July 18, 1926. Wikipedia gives 23 minutes. Chase plays Mr. Moose. Vivien Oakland plays Mrs. Moose. Charles Clary plays the dentist. Gale Henry is a wallflower. Ann Howe plays the maid.
Themes
Making
McCarey and Chase build the gag on two makeovers that the spouses hide from each other.
Look
Len Powers photographed the before-and-after faces and the party where they fail to recognize each other.
Preservation
Selected for the National Film Registry in 2007.
Notes
- The Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry in 2007.
- Chase and Oakland play both the homely pair and the improved pair.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
- Pathé released it as a two-reeler.
Scenes
- Each spouse comes home altered and says nothing.
- They flirt at the party without knowing who the other is.
