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That's My Wife

192918 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
17:37
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Lloyd French · Public domain

Synopsis

Ollie's wife leaves just before a wealthy uncle arrives. To protect a hoped-for inheritance, Stan impersonates the missing spouse, but a supper-club outing turns the deception into a series of public embarrassments.

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DirectorsLloyd French

Behind the scenes

The short uses synchronized orchestral music and effects without dialogue. Laurel's disguise lets a single domestic lie generate escalating problems with strangers, a waiter and the suspicious relative.

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