Get 'Em Young

Get 'Em Young is a 1926 American short comedy film starring Stan Laurel.^[1]

Get 'Em Young
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Directed by	Fred Guiol Stan Laurel
Written by	Stan Laurel James Parrott H. M. Walker Hal Yates
Produced by	Hal Roach
Starring	Stan Laurel
Cinematography	Harry W. Gerstad Alvin Lange Frank Young
Production company	Hal Roach Studios
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	October 31, 1926 (1926-10-31)
Running time	2 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cast

• Harry Myers as Orvid Joy
• Eugenia Gilbert as The girl
• Stan Laurel as Summers, the butler
• Max Davidson as Isaac Goldberg, a lawyer
• Charlotte Mineau as Hired bride
• Fred Malatesta as Executor
• Ernest Wood as Lawrence Lavendar Virgin, a female impersonator (credited as Ernie Wood)

Production notes

Oliver Hardy was originally cast as Summers, the butler, in this short film, but had to be replaced before filming by Stan Laurel, who had not acted in films for about a year as he had been working as a writer and director, and with whom he would soon team up with at the Hal Roach Studios. Hardy had been injured in a cooking accident at home where he burned his arm after a frying pan of scalding grease spilled onto it, and was still recovering when filming for Get 'em Young began. This accident forced Hardy to be removed from the cast of the Mabel Normand film Raggedy Rose as well.^[2]

Theatre fire incident

This was the film being shown at the 1927 Laurier Palace Theatre fire in Montreal, Canada, where 78 people died, all but one under age 16.

See also

• List of American films of 1926
• Stan Laurel filmography