Along Came Auntie (1926)

A silent short. A divorced woman has remarried; she has a rich Aunt who disapproves of divorce, and the secret must be kept from her. The woman's first husband, played by Oliver Hardy, is a lodger in the house, and is persuaded to pretend to be still married to her.

But the Aunt is suspicious, and to satisfy her, the wife gets her present husband, Glenn Tryon, to dress in her nightclothes and pretend to sleep with Hardy.

At the time this film was made, it was the custom to make quite a lot of slapstick comedy out of a very simple idea, and this sequence goes on for some time, with the "happy couple" being tucked up in bed by the aunt, and then a spoof sleepwalking sequence etc.

HF November 2002

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