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The Show Off

Director: Malcolm St. Clair (Dir)
Release Date:   16 Aug 1926
Duration (in feet):   6,196
Duration (in reels):   7

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Cast:	Ford Sterling	(Aubrey Piper)
	Lois Wilson	(Amy Fisher)
	Louise Brooks	(Clara)
	Gregory Kelly	(Joe Fisher)
	C. W. Goodrich	(Pop Fisher)
	Claire McDowell	(Mom Fisher)
	Joseph Smiley	(Railroad executive)

Summary:

Aubrey Piper, a mere clerk at the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, poses as an important executive to his sweetheart, Amy Fisher, by blustering, bullying, and showing off continually. Though all the members of her family are contemptuous of Piper, Amy marries him; 3 months later she is fully aware of his faults. To help his son Joe continue work on his invention (a rust-preventing paint), Pop Fisher gives him the money saved for the mortgage and shortly afterward dies of a stroke. Aubrey wins a Ford in a raffle; and while taking it out for a spin, he knocks down a traffic policeman; Joe is forced to pay his fine with the mortgage money. Realizing the tragedy he has brought upon Amy's family, Aubrey visits the directors of a steel company and by bluffing sells them Joe's invention. The coup creates a furore in the Fisher household, happy at last that the "show off" has redeemed himself.

Production Company:	Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company:	Paramount Pictures
Director:	Malcolm St. Clair	(Dir)
Producer:	Adolph Zukor	(Pres)
	Jesse L. Lasky	(Pres)
Writer:	Pierre Collings	(Scr)
Photography:	Lee Garmes	(Dir of photog)
Film Editor:	Ralph Block	(Supv ed)
Country:	United States
Language:	English

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Source Text:	Based on the play The Show-Off by George Kelly (New York, 5 Feb 1924).
Authors:	George Edward Kelly

Copyright Claimant	Copyright Date	Copyright Number
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.	16/8/1926 dd/mm/yyyy	LP23027

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Genre:	Comedy

Subjects (Major):	Clerks
	Egotists
	Ford automobiles
	Inventors
	Marriage
	Paint
	Philadelphia (PA)
	Railroads

Note:	Exteriors were photographed on location in Philadelphia. For information on other films based on the George Kelly play, please consult the entry for the 1946 M-G-M production The Show-Off , directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50 ).

Bibliographic Sources:	Date	Page
Film Daily	29 Aug 1926.
New York Times	23 Aug 1926	p. 9.
Variety	25 Aug 1926	p. 18.

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