Lila Lee Movies
A pretty, apple-cheeked WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922, Lila Lee had been a performer since childhood and was widely known as "Cuddles," one of the stars of Gus Edwards' kiddie troupe. She was brought to Hollywood by Paramount's Jesse Lasky and headlined in her very first film, The Cruise of the Make Believe (1918). In typical silent screen style, she played a poor girl secretly supported by a rich admirer and the New York Times thought she had a "limitless future before her."After appearing as the servant wench in Cecil B. DeMille's Male and Female (1919), Paramount began to see the newcomer as a potential successor to that popular film's star, the elegant Gloria Swanson, and embarked on a hefty publicity campaign. Lee's detractors, however, were quick to point out that her work never really lived up to the ballyhoo. "She seemed permanently neutral," as one critic pointed out. Her co-starring turn opposite Rudolph Valentino in the immensely popular bull-fight melodrama Blood and Sand (1922) was still far from persuasive but her jet-black hair, severely braided in coils over each ear, created a trend and the fan mail kept pouring in. Her tumultuous marriage to matinee-idol James Kirkwood, very much an "A Star Is Born" affair, created additional headlines that lasted until their divorce in 1931.
Lila Lee's up-and-down screen career was bedeviled by severe bouts with what was euphemistically referred to as tuberculosis but whispered to be the results of acute alcoholism. As Lon Chaney's leading lady in The Unholy Three (1930) , she was positioned to become one of the new sound era's first major stars but a series of bad judgments and, again, highly publicized bouts with illness, led to supporting roles in Grade-B films. In 1936, she was a witness to the suicide of playboy Reid Russell and the resulting headlines reportedly made her camera shy. There were several aborted stage comebacks in the 1940s, a short-lived marriage or two, and appearances on early television soap operas in the 1950s. Her son with Kirkwood, James Kirkwood Jr., became a noted author and playwright but Lee did not live to see his crowning glory, the legendary Broadway musical A Chorus Line. Retiring from performing after playing country singer Margie Bowes' hayseed mother in the Florida-lensed Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (1967), the veteran star died of a stroke at Saranac Lake, NY, in November of 1973. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1928
This easygoing service comedy stars Donald Keith in the title role. A tough topkick, Mulligan intends to make a "real man" out of enlistee Mickey Neilan (Wesley Barry), a former vaudevillian. After the standard basic-training gags, Mulligan and Neilan are shipped to France, where they are sent out to capture a nest of spies. Instead, our heroes get captured themselves and are shipped to Berlin, where they manage to escape and emerge from the experience as war heroes. The film's romantic angle concerns Neilan's romance with his fickle vaudeville partner (Lila Lee). Top Sergeant Mulligan was designed to allow former child star Wesley "Freckles" Barry to segue into adult roles; Barry later forsook acting to become a busy assistant director and producer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wesley Barry, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1928
Released as part of producer Trem Carr's "Famous Authors" series, this silent whodunit was based on a 1912 story by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Thomas Curran, as elderly Silas Lathrop, comes into possession of a jewel stolen from the brow of a sacred Indian idol. The gem, unfortunately, brings nothing but trouble and Silas hurriedly prepares a new will. The old man is promptly murdered, but who among his heirs is the killer? This time, however, the butler didn't do it, said factotum being in reality detective Bertram Chisholm (Carl Stockdale) in disguise. Lila Lee headed a cast of mostly veteran players, which also included Ray Hallor, Adele Watson and George K. French. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was no newcomer to the screen either, having penned the 1916 mystery series Who's Guilty. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lila Lee, Ray Hallor, (more)
- 1927
This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose. Before the story has run its course, Paris has rescued his two older brothers from losing the love of their wives, selflessly sacrificing his own well-being in the process. One Increasing Purpose was adapted from a then-popular novel by A. S. M. Hutchinson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Edmund Lowe, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1926
The New Klondike was a satire of two ripe-for-plucking targets: The national baseball craze and the Florida "land boom" of 1925. Thomas Meighan stars as Tom Kelly, a minor-league player who shows up in Florida for spring training, only to be promptly fired by his jealous manager Joe Cooley (J. W. Johnston). Looking for a quick source of income, Kelly agrees to act as the "celebrity endorser" for a Florida real estate firm. Before long all of his former teammates have become investors, which has a bizarre effect on their game: at one point, one of the ballplayers hits a homer, then stops cold while rounding the bases to study a map of his land holdings! Crooked land broker Morgan West (Robert Craig), conspiring with Joe Cooley, sells Kelly some worthless swamp acreage, which immediately causes our hero and his pals to lose all their money. But Kelly manages to recover their savings, whereupon he is appointed manager of the team in Cooley's place. Based on a story by sports humorist Ring Lardner and partly filmed on location in Miami, The New Klondike was successful enough to secure Tommy Meighan a new, long-term contract with Paramount Pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1926
Celebrated Yiddish-theatre luminary Maurice Schwartz was both star and director of Broken Hearts. Schwartz plays Benjamin Rezanov, a Jewish author forced to leave his wife behind when he flees the pogroms and persecution of Czarist Russia. Immediately upon arriving in New York, he receives word that his wife has died. After an appropriate period of mourning, he marries a rabbi's daughter, and all goes well until he discovers that his first wife is still alive. He dutifully heads back to Russia, only to be told that he's too late: his wife has expired in a Soviet hospital. After digesting all this, Benjamin comes back to New York, hoping to patch things up with wife number two -- which he does, conveniently in time to celebrate Yom Kippur. With the exception of leading lady Lila Lee, every cast member in Broken Hearts was recruited from New York's Yiddish theater talent pool. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maurice Schwartz, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1926
Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer Charles "Buddy" Rogers heads the cast as Teddy Ward, the son of a wealthy hotelier (Ralph Lewis). Disturbed by Teddy's hedonistic lifestyle, Ward Sr. orders the boy to take over management of a winter resort hotel. With the help of talented sketch artist Jeanne King (Ivy Harris), Teddy mounts a big-time advertising campaign and transforms the dormant resort into a smashing success. Outside of Buddy Rogers and Ivy Harris, the other Junior Stars given a boost in Fascinating Youth include future cowboy hero Jack Luden and the delightful comedienne Thelma Todd. Also performing box-office duty in cameo roles are such established Paramount luminaries as Richard Dix, Adolphe Menjou, Clara Bow, Lois Wilson and Thomas Meighan, not to mention contract directors Lewis Milestone and Mal St. Clair. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ivy Harris
- 1925
Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John Rand (John Miltern). Rand is aware of Blackford's motivations and he sends him to take over as superintendent of one of the company's mines in the hopes that he will fail. To further his cause, Rand contacts Joe Lawler (Wallace Beery), who wanted the position, and tells him that he can have it if Blackford quits -- and that he doesn't care what Lawler does to get Blackford out. Alice accompanies her new husband to the mines, even though she says she doesn't love him. With the help of saloonkeeper Shackleton (Laurence Wheat), Lawler stirs up trouble and inspires the workers to strike. Blackford closes down the saloon and proves to the miners that Lawler has been cheating them. Lawler and Blackford come to blows, but Lawler causes his own end when a crowbar he is using as a weapon gets caught on some machinery and throws him from the coal tipple. The strike ends, and Alice confesses that she does love Blackford after all. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1925
Thomas Meighan plays Tom Clark, who left his home town to make good -- and wound up as part owner of a hapless gas station. On the train back to his old town for "old home week," however, he is mistakenly thought to be a big oil man. Ethel Harmon (Lila Lee), daughter of Judge Harmon (Sidney Paxton), falls in love with him. The town is being swindled by two crooks, Marshall Coleman (Charles Dow Clark) and Townsend Barton (Max Figman). They've planted a phony oil well in the town and have sold stock in it. Because of his high position, Clark is put in charge of the project. When Judge Harmon finds out that Clark is pretty much a failure, he exposes him, but Clark refuses to give up his post. He has already discovered that the oil well is a fake and has set out to salt it and sell it back to the swindlers. His every action is misunderstood until the crooks loudly protest being out-swindled. Clark gains the town's respect once again, and wins the hand of Ethel. This comedy-drama was "suggested by" George Ade's story -- meaning that scenarist Tom Geraghty decided to change everything around until Ade's tale was unrecognizable. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1925
This melodrama, which starred Lila Lee, had quite a few names in the cast that were well known at the time but are largely forgotten now: Gareth Hughes, Dolores Cassinelli, and stage star Charlotte Walker. It also featured someone who was relatively new to pictures, but who eventually found fame in the talkie era: Bela Lugosi. Don Harmon (Hughes) is the son of opera impresario Nicholas Harmon (Lugosi). The elder Harmon is involved with Nina, an opera singer (Cassinelli), and the affair causes a rift between father and son. Don makes his own living as an orchestra leader in a café, and helps out Anna, a talented young Russian immigrant (Lee), by getting her a job as a dancer in the "Midnight Girl" number. Since Nina is past her prime, Nicholas is growing bored with her and decides to look for fresh talent, which he finds in Anna. Anna refuses to have anything to do with him, however, until Don's ex-fiancée, Natalie Schuyler (Ruby Blaine), asserts that she is still engaged to him. Anna then goes to Nicholas who tries to force himself on her while Nina angrily watches from behind a curtain. When Natalie's attempts to reunite with Don are unsuccessful, she tells him that Anna is at his father's apartment. He rushes down there just as Anna tries to shoot Nicholas. Nina is wounded, and Nicholas realizes he still cares very much for his mistress. They are reconciled, while Don marries Anna, who goes on to become an opera star. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- 1924
Real-life husband and wife James Kirkwood and Lila Lee play Mr. and Mrs. in Another Man's Wife. Neglected by her husband, Lee pretends to desert him in order to win him back. This she does, but not before she and Kirkwood have gotten themselves entangled with various and sundry antagonists, including a gang of rumrunners. The film really comes to life during its rescue-at-sea finale. Wallace Beery, a few years away from full stardom, plays the glowering, grimacing villain. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Kirkwood, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1924
There was nothing actors Lila Lee and James Kirkwood or writer C. Gardner Sullivan could do to bring new life to the tired old triangle theme of this comedy-drama. Lee plays Diana Moreland, whose husband, George (Kirkwood), has acquired a wandering eye. He is in the middle of an affair with Marilyn Foster (Margaret Livingston), and when Diana discovers it, she wants to divorce him. But for the sake of their child they decide to stay together and George promises to break things off with Marilyn. Marilyn, however, isn't having any and she soon has him back. Diana traces the two of them to a road house and joins their dinner accompanied by another man. She cheerfully invites Marilyn to come over for the weekend. When Marilyn arrives, Diana takes her and George out on a motor boat which she knows is unsafe. When the boat starts to sink, she calmly turns to her husband and tells him to choose which woman he will save. George chooses his wife, and another boat eventually comes and picks up the panicked Marilyn. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, (more)
- 1924
The off-screen husband-and-wife team of James Kirkwood and Lila Lee played just that in this silent crook melodrama from low-budget Regal Pictures. They are both hardened criminals, however, and when Kirkwood's younger brother (Robert Agnew) is killed during a prison break, they kidnap the daughter (Madge Bellamy) of the bank president who had caused the kid to be jailed in the first place. The innocent young girl suffers memory loss from a boating accident and caring for her softens Lee's heart. The erstwhile girl crook persuades her husband to return the girl to her father and they both reform. Kirkwood and Lee, whose marriage lasted from 1923 to 1929, became the parents of James Kirkwood, Jr., the creator of Broadway's A Chorus Line. Blonde, doll-like Madge Bellamy appeared in this film in between her greatest successes, Lorna Doone (1921) and The Iron Horse (1924). Today, she is best remembered as Bela Lugosi's inert victim in the near-classic White Zombie (1932). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, (more)
- 1923
When wealthy Rockwood dies, he wills his fortune to his four grown children, providing they're all married by a certain date. Failing that, the money will go to charity. Three of the Rockwood siblings are quick to find matches but Tom Rockwood (Thomas Meighan) is determined to wait for true love. At last he finds it with Louise Halliday (Lila Lee), but her guardian is Milo Bleech (John Sainpolis) who is the family lawyer. Bleech would benefit if the fortune went to charity, so he tries to sabotage the relationship. He is nearly successful, and Tom leaves for Europe. Also on the boat is the unhappy English sweetheart of his brother Dick (Robert Agnew). Louise is there to see the girl off, but isn't able to disembark before the ship leaves port. She and Tom meet up and straighten out their differences. Then, when Dick is discovered on board as a stowaway, a double wedding is in order. Meanwhile, the sisters back home quickly marry their beaus and the fortune remains in the family. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1923
The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire gives it a number of unexpected turns. In addition, just about every star in Hollywood -- not just those at Paramount, the releasing studio -- has a cameo at one point or another during the film's eight reels. Ironically, nearly all of the lead actors are unknowns (although George K. Arthur would become a noted character comedian). Angela Whitaker (Hope Brown) of Centreville is convinced she has a chance in Hollywood -- all her friends tell her so. So she heads West with her Uncle Joel (Luke Cosgrave) in tow. But Angela has no luck in Tinseltown, while her uncle starts landing roles left and right because of his curious image. Eventually the rest of the family, including Angela's sweetheart Lem Lefferts (Arthur), her grandmother (Ruby Lafayette), and her aunt (Eleanor Lawson) come to Hollywood. All Angela's relatives get movie work because they're character types. Finally a screenwriter tries to help Angela out, but Lem winds up landing a role instead. He becomes a star, which suits Angela just fine because she has married him. The couple have twins, and the babies -- not to mention the couple's pet parrot -- wind up in films, while Angela remains at home. The most notable cameo in this picture is Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who had been shunned in motion pictures since the 1921 scandal surrounding a Labor Day party that allegedly resulted in the death of starlet Virginia Rappe. Here he returns as a man standing in a casting line. When it's his turn to come up to the window, it is shut in his face and a "closed" sign put out. Unfortunately this gag turned out to be all too true; Arbuckle was not seen in front of a camera again until 1932. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, (more)
- 1923
Although this Rex Beach story was filmed before in 1916 as a "super-feature," seven years later it would become a routine Paramount release starring the ever-steady, enduringly popular Thomas Meighan. Meighan is Kirk Anthony, a young spendthrift whose wild parties and all-around laziness cause his father no small amount of frustration. Anthony's next abandoned revelry turns out to be his last -- his father has him shanghaied and shipped off to Panama. He gets a job on the railroad and falls in love with Chiquita (Lila Lee), the pretty daughter of Andreas Garavel, one of the country's big politicos (Gus Weinberg). But he finds himself in a lot of trouble when he's vamped by Edith Cortlandt, a young American wife (Gertrude Astor). When her husband (John Miltern) kills himself, scandal and possibly a murder indictment threatens. But Edith clears Anthony, and he is able to earn his father's -- and Chiquita's -- respect. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1923
Thomas Meighan was appropriately cast in this ocean-bound romance based on the novel A Light to Leeward by Peter B. Kyne. First mate Jim Bedford (Meighan) saves a ship when he takes over command from its drunken captain, Svenson (Gus Weinberg). Svenson is then given charge of a yacht belonging to Mary Brent (Lila Lee), the daughter of wealthy ship-owner Rufus Brent (Charles Abbe). Bedford puts him off the boat and takes command once again. During the trip, Bedford and Mary fall in love and they secretly marry. Brent wants to get rid of Bedford, so he gives him the assignment of taking an old ship to South America, but Mary stows away. Brent chases after the ship in his yacht, but it is disabled in a storm. Bedford tows the yacht, then presents Brent with a bill. This insult, on top of Bedford's marriage to Mary, infuriates Brent., but he eventually comes to appreciate his son-in-law, and offers him a partnership in his firm. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lila Lee
Both animal and human nostrils flare, and passion reigns in this classic romantic tragedy with Rudolph Valentino. Valentino is Juan Gallarde, an aspiring bullfighter, married to his loving childhood sweetheart Carmen (Lila Lee). But as his fame rises as a matador, so does his hot Spanish blood, and he succumbs to the passionate embraces of the sultry Doña Sol (Nita Naldi). When Juan is gored by a bull, his bullfighting fame is cut short, and Carmen returns to his side to nurse him back to health, and, as he struggles to regain his strength and make a comeback in the bullring, Carmen is there for him. At last he returns to the bullring, but in the stands, Juan sees Doña Sol with another lover. His attention distracted, a furious bull charges him and he is killed, dying in the arms of Carmen. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1922
This jumbled light comedy was one of the last pictures featuring silent matinee idol Wallace Reid -- after being given morphine for an injury in 1919, Reid became a drug addict and he died a few months after this film's release. When the penniless Maria Theresa (Lila Lee) hears of a treasure hidden in a deserted castle, she decides to track it down. With the help of her cousin, the Duke D'Alva (Arthur Carewe), Maria goes to New York, where the papers which reveal the treasure's location sit in a museum. She meets handsome Warren Jarvis (Reid), who has gotten involved in a feud in his native Kentucky and is trying to escape. He and Maria join forces when they discover that the castle is haunted, and they sail to Spain. It doesn't take Jarvis long to figure out that the Duke is responsible for the phony ghosts that haunt the castle, and he forces him to confess. Although Jarvis and Maria end up treasure-less, they do find romance together. Rotund Walter Hiers does a blackface turn as Rusty Snow, Jarvis' valet -- a gag which modern audiences would find highly offensive, but which amused filmgoers of the day. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1922
This comedy-drama featured a wry story by humorist George Ade and a warm performance by the always likable Thomas Meighan. Meighan is Tom Redding, who, upon his father's death, finds that he and his mother (Maude Turner Gordon) are broke. Without the Redding wealth, they become outcasts in the social circles where they were once welcomed, and Tom's girl, Olivia Hornby (Florence Deshon), throws him over. Tom finds a more loyal sweetheart in May Thorne (Lila Lee), who offers him her savings so that he can develop an oil well. The well becomes a gusher, and Redding finds himself wealthy once again. But instead of returning to town a success, a pal suggests that he pretend to be a failure to see who his real friends are. While using this ruse, Tom secretly buys up the companies from all the men who snubbed him and his mother. The town is shocked when they discover that Redding is the millionaire who now practically controls the town. But instead of taking vengeance, Redding magnanimously returns the men to their former positions. Mary, who has stuck by him all this time, is proud to become his wife. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1922
Although Wallace Reid stars in this picture (based on the comic opera by Richard Harding Davis), Walter Long just about steals the show. Brooke Travers (Reid) is the easygoing son of a banana merchant. He runs up a 60-dollar fare by playing stage-door Johnny up and down all the Broadway theaters, and cab driver Biff Dooley (Long) is determined that Travers will ante up. But Dooley's task proves to be more difficult than he first suspected when Travers follows pretty Juanita Rivas (Lila Lee) to her home country of San Manana, in South America. First off, the two men have to work for their passage on the boat; then when they arrive in San Manana, they find it in the midst of a revolution. Travers has to save Dooley from a firing squad and he helps put Juanita's father Carlos (Theodore Kosloff) into power. The grateful Rivas makes Travers, who marries Juanita, Minister of Finance. While trade paper Motion Picture News gave the film good marks, it notes that Reid "has lost some of his dash and spontaneity" -- an ominous statement considering that the star died from his addiction to drugs six months after its release.
~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wallace Reid, Theodore Kosloff, (more)
- 1922
This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish (Raymond Hatton), is a Cockney, and the other, Robert Herrick (James Kirkwood) was once a gentleman. In Tahiti they board a schooner and a storm takes them to an uncharted island. Living there is pearl broker Richard Attwater (Noah Beery), and his daughter Ruth (Lila Lee). Attwater is bitter because a supposed friend stole his wife and he has sworn to wreak vengeance on any white man he happens to encounter. Davis and Huish want to get their hands on his pearls, while, Herrick falls in love with the man's daughter. The relationship that develops between Ruth and Herrick inspires him to become a gentleman once more. Although he tries to stop his two compatriots from stealing Attwater's pearls, the antagonism continues. Eventually Davis, Huish and Attwater all meet their deaths, enabling Herrick and Ruth to be together. This picture was filmed again as a talkie in 1937. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, (more)
- 1922
Silent matinee idol Wallace Reid played a speed demon in quite a few popular light comedies for Paramount. Here he takes a break from the fast cars, and frankly, this mediocre picture suffers for it. In spite of the protests of his father (Henry Barrows), Buell Arnister, Jr. (Reid) pursues a career as an artist. Unfortunately he's not too successful and his landlady tosses him out of his studio, forcing him to camp on the roof. Over on the next building are a couple of other roof dwellers -- Barbara Teller (Lila Lee) and her friend, Justine Tate (Gertrude Short). Arnister finds a plush, unoccupied home and decides to squat there. He invites the girls to share it with him, completely unaware that it belonged to Barbara's late father -- after he died, his second wife (Claire McDowell) threw her out of the house. Eventually the woman returns, having remarried and become the Countess de Mourney. Arnister, however, has found a note in a dressing gown which leads to a will giving Barbara her father's fortune. The Countess and her husband (Clarence Geldart) are now the homeless ones, and Arnister winds up with Barbara. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, (more)
- 1922
This quirky comedy with its mystical overtones was a departure for the down-to-earth Will Rogers. The story opens up with a title card that announces there are spirits floating around waiting to be born into the material world. One spirit, the mischievous Ek (young John Fox), misses being born by a few seconds and wanders around earth, looking for a body to enter. He happens upon Ezra Botts (Rogers), a retiring professor of spiritualism who has gotten tangled up with some crooked politicians who think they can make him do their will. Botts, who is in love with Molly McIntyre, his landlady's daughter (Lila Lee), has been nominated for mayor. When Botts uses his psychic powers to send his spirit to a meeting, Ek takes over his temporarily spiritless body. Ek in Botts body battles with the politicians, drinks liquor -- much to the horror of his fellow spiritualists -- and beats up Wadley (Alan Hale), who has insulted Molly. On top of everything else, Botts' new persona is a hit with the voters. Finally, Botts' body faints, since it's unaccustomed to all this activity and the real Botts is able to get his body back from Ek. But he returns a changed man and overcomes his shyness enough to propose to Molly. Much credit went to cameraman Karl Brown, who accomplished quite a bit with double exposures in an era where special effects cinematography was still in its rudimentary stages. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Will Rogers, Lila Lee, (more)
