Better Behave (movie)

Better Behave (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Leslie Goodwins
  • Production companies: Weiss Brothers Artclass Pictures
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release date: 10/5/1928
  • Run time: 20 min.

Movie description

Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end.

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Poodles Hanneford

Poodles Hanneford

Role(s): Freddie

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Betty Walsh

Betty Walsh

Role(s): Betty

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Harry Martell

Harry Martell

Role(s): Plain Clothes Al

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Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Role(s): Officer McNutt

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