A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Oliver Hardy (left) and Bobby Ray. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Bobby Ray [a goof, the paperhanger’s helper], Babe Hardy (Oliver Hardy) [the boss, the paperhanger], Hazel Newman [Nurse Zenia Zane], Harry McCoy [Doctor Brown, the sanitarium director]

Cumberland Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Arrow Film Corporation. / Produced by Billy West. Scenario by Ward Hayes. Assistant director, Ted Berstein. Cinematography by Harry Fowler. / Released 1 March 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was edited to one reel and rereleased as The Paperhanger’s Helper.

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in private film collections [16mm reduction positives and 8mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Communication: Telephones - Offices - Transportation: Automobiles - Umbrellas

Listing updated: 6 January 2023.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Skretvedt-Magic pp. 27, 87 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.