Don't Be Foolish (1922)
- Directed by
- Billy West
- Genre
- comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 18 min
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent comedy in which a slick man about town gets into lighthearted trouble. The film follows a former Chaplin impersonator playing a new dapper character.
playfullightheartedwhimsicaljauntycomediccheerfulbrisk-paced
What happens
Don't Be Foolish is a silent two-reel comedy film directed by and starring Billy West. West was long established as the premier Charlie Chaplin impersonator, but he abandoned the Chaplin act in 1920 in favor of a slick, straw-hatted, man-about-town character. Almost all of the surviving Billy West comedies are his Chaplin burlesques, so film collectors were surprised when Blackhawk Films reprinted home-movie versions of Don't Be Foolish in the 1970s, revealing West as an entirely new personality. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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