How to Handle Women

{{Infobox film

| name = How to Handle Women

| image = How to Handle Women lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = William James Craft

| producer = Carl Laemmle

| writer = {{Plainlist|

Carl Krusada (scenario)
Jack Foley (adaptation)
Albert DeMond (intertitles)}}

| story = William James Craft
Jack Foley

| starring = {{Plainlist|

| music =

| cinematography = Arthur L. Todd

| editing = Charles Craft

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1928|10|14}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

How to Handle Women is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William James Craft and starring Glenn Tryon. His first Hollywood film, Bela Lugosi had a brief uncredited role as a diplomatic aide, and Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman played himself in a cameo appearance. It also featured Bull Montana, and Cesare Gravina.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcj.com/a-konversation-with-george-herrimans-biographer-michael-tisserand-part-two/ |title=A "Konversation" with George Herriman’s Biographer, Michael Tisserand (Part Two) |author=Paul Tumey |date=November 28, 2016}} It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9844 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: How to Handle Women][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HowToHandlewomen1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: How to Handle Women] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703160939/http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HowtoHandleWomen1928.html |date=July 3, 2009 }} at silentera.com The film had several working titles: Fresh Every Hour, The Prince of Peanuts, Meet the Prince, The Prince of Knuts and Three Days.

Plot

Leonard Higgins (Glenn Tryon), a young up-and-coming New York cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx (Raymond Keane), the ruler of Vulgaria who is visiting the United States trying to persuade some wealthy businessmen to invest in his tiny country. Higgins decides to help the Prince by using his cartooning skills to advertise Vulgaria's peanut crop, which in reality does not exist. Higgins invites a number of wealthy people to a fancy banquet at the Vulgarian Embassy. The gimmick is that each course of the dinner is to be made entirely from peanuts, including the soup, steaks, desserts, etc. and all of them taste horrible. Meanwhile, the evil Count Olaff (Mario Carillo) shows up to sabotage the dinner, so that he can depose Prince Hendryx and become the ruler of Vulgaria. Higgins inpersonates the Prince and hosts the banquet himself. As a bonus, Higgins winds up winning the affections of the lovely Beatrice Fairbanks (Marian Nixon) in the end.

Cast

Glenn Tryon as Leonard Higgins
Marian Nixon as Beatrice Fairbanks
Raymond Keane as Prince Hendryx
Mario Carillo as Count Olaf
George Herriman as himself (credited as E. H. Harriman)
Bull Montana as The Turk
Cesare Gravina as Tony
Robert T. Haines as The Editor
Leo White as The Secretary
Violet La Plante as The Stenographer
Bela Lugosi as Diplomat's Aide (uncredited)

Preservation

The Library of Congress has a "digital file containing a 300-foot 16mm fragment from one reel (reel one) loaned by a collector".{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6326/default.html |title=How To Handle Women / William J Craft [motion picture] |publisher=Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress}}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|019028}}
{{tcmdb title|495811}}
[http://www.moviemem.com/files/photos/HOWTOMANAGEWOMENws.jpg Lobby poster] with alternate or erroneous title How to Manage Women

Category:1928 films

Category:American silent feature films

Category:Films directed by William James Craft

Category:Universal Pictures films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:Lost American comedy films

Category:1928 comedy films

Category:Silent American comedy films

Category:1928 lost films

Category:1920s American films