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Director
  
Charley Chase

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Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Country
  
United States

Cast
  
Oliver Hardy, Billy West

Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Release date
  
1918 (1918)

Genres
  
Comedy, Short Film, Silent film, Indie film, Black-and-white

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Bright and Early is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. This short is preserved in the Library of Congress's collection.

Contents

Cast

  • Billy West as A Bellboy
  • Oliver Hardy as The Boss (credited as Babe Hardy)
  • Rosemary Theby as His daughter
  • Leo White as An honest crook
  • Bud Ross as Old man
  • Fay Holderness as A Maid
  • Ethelyn Gibson (credited as Ethlyn Gibson)

    • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, Bright and Early was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, the entire scene of man taking small boy to bathroom and the child's actions outside the room, Reel 2, scene of man in women's underwear where man is peeking through keyhole, man and woman on floor where woman throws her legs up, and the woman on floor showing underwear dropping from her shoulders.

    References

    Bright and Early Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Bright and Early IMDb Bright and Early themoviedb.org