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His Private Life (1928)

His Private Life poster
Directed by
Frank Tuttle
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy man pretends to have a different personality to win over a woman. The film is a silent comedy with synchronized music and sound effects.

lightheartedplayfulbreezysilent-era charmwhimsicaldated humorromantic farce

What happens

His Private Life is a 1928 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Ethel Doherty, George Marion Jr., Keene Thompson, and Ernest Vajda. The film stars Adolphe Menjou, Kathryn Carver, Margaret Livingston, Eugene Pallette, André Cheron, and Sybil Grove. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Western Electric Sound System process. The film was released on November 17, 1928, by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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