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  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2022

Skinner’s Dress Suit

Live music by Philip Carli
Director
William A. Seiter
Cast
Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, Ben Hendricks Jr., E.J. Ratcliffe, Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Lionel Braham

Skinner has a low-status job that’s not quite commensurate with his adoring wife’s idea of him. A giddy comedy of domestic mores from a bygone era when husbands went to work and wives went shopping is a delight in spite of itself, all owing to the charming goofiness of its stars Reginald Denny and Laura La Plante.

Restoration by Universal Pictures

  • 75 min
  • United States
  • 1926
  • DCP
Introduction
Mike Mashon
Copresenter
SF Sketchfest

Live Music by Philip Carli

Philip Carli brings both prodigious musical talent and a committed scholarly outlook to his lifelong passion for the music and culture of the turn of the last century. He discovered silent film at the age of five and began his accompaniment career at thirteen, with a performance for Lon Chaney’s 1923 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. While at college he programmed and accompanied an annual series of silent films, and also organized and conducted a 50-piece student orchestra using 19th-century performance practice. Since then, he has continued his studies of the film, music and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, earning a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. He has at the same time toured extensively as a film accompanist throughout North America and Europe.

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Director
William A. Seiter
Country
United States
Year
1926
Cast
Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, Ben Hendricks Jr., E.J. Ratcliffe, Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Lionel Braham
Runtime
75 min
Print Source
Universal
Format
DCP
Mon, May 9, 2022
12:00 PM
$18 general
$16 member
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