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The Show-Off: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marjorie Main, Virginia O'Brien. Lowly clerk Aubrey Piper has a fondness for exaggerating about himself to impress people.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Harry Beaumont
- 1946-12
Apr 16, 2023 · Louise Brooks. This first film version of George Kelly's stage comedy The Show Off. stars former Keystone Kop Ford Sterling in the title role. Though he's. only a thirty-dollar-a-week clerk, Aubrey Piper (Sterling) is an. incorrigible braggart, brimming full of grandiose get-rich-quick. schemes.
- 82 min
The Show-Off is a 1924 stage play by George Kelly about a working-class North Philadelphian family's reluctance to accept their daughter's suitor Aubrey Piper, an overly confident Socialist buffoon. The play has been revived five times on Broadway and adapted for film four times; it is Kelly's most frequently produced play.
- February 5, 1924
- George Kelly
The camera then pans down to street level. George Kelly directed the initial Broadway run of his play, which starred Louis John Bartels and Helen Lowell. Kelly's play was first filmed by Paramount in 1926 as The Show Off, with Malcolm St. Clair directing and Ford Sterling and
- Harry Beaumont, Bert Spurlin
- Red Skelton
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Mayer did, despite reservations connected to Tracy's reputation as another actor with a drinking problem. Tracy went to MGM in 1935, stayed until 1955, made the most of the better scripts available to him there, and rose to stardom. It would be idle to insist that The Show-Off was one of those scripts. But it deserves better than the ...
- Charles F. Riesner, Sandy Roth
- Spencer Tracy
The Show-Off is a 1926 American silent film comedy produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, based on the play of the same name by George Kelly. Directed by Mal St. Clair , the film stars Ford Sterling , Lois Wilson and Louise Brooks .