| Slipping Wives | |
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| Directed by | Fred Guiol |
| Written by | Hal Roach (story) H.M. Walker (titles) |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Priscilla Dean Oliver Hardy Stan Laurel Herbert Rawlinson Albert Conti |
| Cinematography | George Stevens |
| Edited by | Richard C. Currier |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 23 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Slipping Wives is a 1927 American silent short comedy film starring Priscilla Dean, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy.[1] The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. Priscilla Dean was a popular silent film star.
Priscilla is married to an artist named Leon. However Leon has not been showing much interest in his wife, so she hatches a plot to win back his affections. Ollie plays the butler. Stan arrives at the door to sell paint and has a fight with Ollie. Priscilla employs Stan to "make love to her" and ensure Leon becomes jealous. Ollie has to wash and dress Stan and make him look presentable enough to fool Leon at a dinner party that night. Priscilla admits to Leon what she has done and he pulls a gun to teach the 'home-wrecker' a lesson. Leon corners Stan and admits he is just acting to make Priscilla think he's really jealous. Ollie does not realise this and he chases Stan out of the house with a rifle. Ollie returns looking shaken. A police officer follows him and says "You nearly blew my brains out". Leon and Priscilla hug.
Slipping Wives was later reworked into the team's penultimate short film The Fixer Uppers, made in 1935.[2]
