Slipping Wives is a 1927 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy short film starring Priscilla Dean

Priscilla Dean

Priscilla Dean was an American actress popular in movies as well as in theatre.-Life and career:Born in New York to an active theatrical family , Priscilla Dean made her stage debut at the age of four, appearing in plays starring her parents...

, Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...

 and Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:...

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Plot

Priscilla is married to an artist

Artist

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 called Leon. However Leon isn't showing much interest in his wife

Wife

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 so she hatches a plot to win back his affection

Affection

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s. Ollie plays the butler

Butler

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. Stan arrives at the door to sell paint

Paint

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 and has a fight with Ollie. Priscilla employs Stan to "Make love to her" and ensure Leon becomes jealous

JEALOUS

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. 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

Gun

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 to teach the 'home-wrecker' a lesson. Leon corners Stan and admits he's just acting

Acting

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 to make Priscilla think he's really jealous. Ollie doesn't realise this and he chases Stan out of the house with a rifle

Rifle

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. Ollie returns looking shaken. A police officer

Police officer

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 follows him and says "You nearly blew my brains out". Leon and Priscilla hug

Hug

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Trivia

Slipping Wives was later reworked into the team's penultimate short film The Fixer Uppers

The Fixer Uppers

The Fixer Uppers is a 1935 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by Charles Rogers and produced by Hal Roach. The penultimate Laurel and Hardy short comedy made at Hal Roach Studios, the film is a reworking of Slipping Wives a silent comedy the comedians appeared in before they teamed up...

, made in 1935.

Cast

• Priscilla Dean
  Priscilla Dean
  Priscilla Dean was an American actress popular in movies as well as in theatre.-Life and career:Born in New York to an active theatrical family , Priscilla Dean made her stage debut at the age of four, appearing in plays starring her parents...
  
   as Wife
• Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:...
  
   as Butler
• Stan Laurel
  Stan Laurel
  Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...
  
   as Handyman
• Herbert Rawlinson
  Herbert Rawlinson
  Herbert Rawlinson was an English stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films. Rawlinson died of lung cancer in 1953...
  
   as Husband
• Albert Conti as Hon. Winchester Squirtz