Sugar Daddies
About Sugar Daddies
Oil man Cyrus Brittle (James Finlayson) wakes from a night out married, and the new brother-in-law (Noah Young) wants $50,000 to annul it. Brittle's lawyer (Stan Laurel) arrives with a briefcase full of dirty laundry. Brittle, the lawyer, and the butler (Oliver Hardy) flee to a Coney Island hotel and find the blackmailers in the lobby. Laurel stands on Brittle's shoulders inside a long coat while Hardy escorts the 'tall lady' out. A dog nearly exposes them. Everyone ends up battered in the fun house, among mirrors, a revolving barrel, and slides.
Cast & crew
More about Sugar Daddies
Fred Guiol and Leo McCarey directed. Hal Roach produced. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. George Stevens photographed. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 10 September 1927. Laurel and Hardy are not yet billed as a team; Finlayson is the lead.
Themes
Making
McCarey and Guiol shot it for Roach before the Laurel and Hardy billing was official. Stevens was on the camera, including the Coney Island chase.
Look
George Stevens photographed the hotel lobby, the dance floor, and the Coney Island fun house.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A full print is published with the Wikipedia article as Sugar Daddies (1927).webm.
Notes
- The listed running time is 16 minutes 49 seconds.
- Charlotte Mineau plays Mrs. Brittle.
- The brother-in-law's price for an annulment is $50,000.
- The coat-and-shoulders gag is identified in the plot account as the second use of the 'Bent Double' routine.
- Wikipedia embeds a full copy as Sugar Daddies (1927).webm.
Scenes
- Laurel's briefcase opens on laundry, not legal papers.
- Laurel on Brittle's shoulders, under one coat, with Hardy walking them out as a tall woman.
- The chase dumps all of them into the fun-house barrel and slides.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Sugar Daddies (1927).webm)
