Three's a Crowd
About Three's a Crowd
Harry, a mover's helper, watches his boss play with a little boy and fishes a rag doll out of the garbage. He finds Gladys collapsed in the snow, carries her to his attic, and sends for help when she gives birth. The people who arrive treat him as the father. The fight he thinks he wins for her is a dream. Her husband comes back, the couple leave with the child after a handshake, and a brick Harry drops turns loose a cable drum that smashes a fortune-teller's shop.
Cast & crew
More about Three's a Crowd
First National released it on 28 August 1927. Langdon directed after firing Frank Capra, from a story by Arthur Ripley and a screenplay by James Langdon and Robert Eddy. Test audiences rejected another ending, that finish was reshot, and the film failed at the box office.
Themes
Look
Elgin Lessley and Frank Evans shared the camera on one indoor set and a handful of phony exteriors.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Gladys McConnell plays Gladys. Cornelius Keefe is the husband. Arthur Thalasso is Harry's boss. George Dunning plays the boss's son.
- Wikipedia says more was shot than used, including scenes of Gladys's life before she meets Harry.
- The sets were one interior and a few false exteriors.
- Brooks Benedict and Henry A. Barrows are in the catalog cast and do not have roles named in the Wikipedia summary.
Scenes
- Harry pulls a rag doll from the trash after watching his boss with a child.
- Midwives congratulate him in the attic, assuming the baby is his.
- A dropped brick sends a telephone-cable drum through the fortune-teller's window.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Three's A Crowd (1927).webm)
