Hal Stephens Movies
- 1932
Also known as My Wife's Family, this British domestic comedy was based on a popular stage play by Fred Duprez and Val Valentine. Newlywed bride Peggy Gay (Muriel Angelus) misunderstands when she overhears her husband Jack (Gene Gerrard) discussing the purchase of a new piano. Thanks to Jack's curious word choices, Peggy is led to believe that her new spouse is the father of an out-of-wedlock child. The rest of the film is predicated on the naïve heroine's unwillingness (or inability) to hear the truth. The level of humor can be assessed by the fact that the hero's unbearable mother-in-law is named Arabella Nagg. My Wife's Family was remade in 1941 with Patricia Roc and John Warwick, then again in 1956 with Diane Hart and Ted Ray. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gene Gerrard, Muriel Angelus, (more)
- 1925
Produced in Northern California by Paul Gerson, this minor crook melodrama featured Richard Holt as a young man helping his girlfriend (Ruth Dwyer) nap a gang of fake clairvoyants preying on gullible San Francisco millionaires. According to surviving accounts, the film ends with the already then obligatory chase up and down the city's steep hills, this time in "Hudson Super-Six wire-wheeled, open sports cars." Leading man Richard Holt was actually veteran low-budget director-writer-actor Ashton Dearholt. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Holt, Ruth Dwyer, (more)
