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Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels (front).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Ask Father
(1919) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Hal Roach
Cast: Harold Lloyd [the boy], Harry Pollard (Snub Pollard) [the corn-fed secretary], Bebe Daniels [the telephone operator]; Wallace Howe [Benjamin C. Buck, capitalist], Marie Mosquini [his daughter], [?] James Parrott or Charles Parrott (Charley Chase)? [Willie, her first suitor (with whom she elopes)], [?] ? [her second suitor], Bud Jamison [the doorman in Buck’s office], William Gillespie [a man in Buck’s office], Noah Young [a man in Buck’s office], Sammy Brooks [the short man in Buck’s office], [?] ? [the tall man in Buck’s office], Margaret Joslyn [the tough woman entering Buck’s office], [?] ? [the nurse on the street], [?] ? [the man with the guns], [?] ? [the first tough in the alley], [?] ? [the second tough in the alley], [?] ? [their robbery victim], [?] Charles Stevenson? [the policeman], [?] Gaylord Lloyd? [the minister], [?] Bill Strother? [Harold’s building-climbing double], Harry Burns, B. Fay, James A. Fitzgerald, Lew Harvey, Dee Lampton
The Rolin Film Company production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Hal Roach. Scenario by H.M. Walker. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. / Released 9 February 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A ‘glasses’ character film. [?] Cast attributions for Dorothea Wolbert appear to be in error.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 February 2019.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Braff-Short n. 890 : Website-IMDb; Website-Lloyd.
Home video: DVD.
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