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The Cheerful Fraud (1927)

The Cheerful Fraud poster
Directed by
William A. Seiter
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man pretends to be someone he is not. This leads to a series of funny situations.

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What happens

The Cheerful Fraud is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Otis Harlan. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on a 1925 novel of the same title by British writer Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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