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My Friend from India (1927)
My Friend from India
(1927)
108 minutes
Comedy / Silent
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Cast: Franklin Pangborn as William / Tommy Valentine
Elinor Fair as Bernice / Barbara
Ben Hendricks Jr. as Charles / Charlie
Ethel Wales as Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
Jeanette Loff as Marion / Ruth Brooks
Tom Ricketts as Judge Elmer Elderberry Egbert Belmore
Louis Natheaux as T. Austin Webb
Tom Dugan as Kasha Murti / Swami / Bogus Hindu Prince
George Ovey as Valet to Hindu Prince
Edgar Norton as Jennings the Butler
Ben Hendricks Jr. wishes to keep sponging off his social-climbing aunt by convincing her that Pangborn is an Indian potentate, whose presence in her household will lend her social prestige.
This material is eked out by a love story for Pangborn, who has been searching for the aptly-named Elinor Fair, who is Hendricks’s sister. There are also two sets of cross-dressing sequences, one involving Pangborn, Hendricks and a bevy of young girls at a gym, including Babe London, and one involving Pangborn dressing up exactly like Hendricks’s aunt, being proposed to her by a nearsighted lawyer/suitor, and doing a bit of the mirror gag that is best known nowadays from the Marx Brothers ‘Duck Soup ’.
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Actors: Franklin Pangborn
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