Three Live Ghosts (1929 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Three Live Ghosts

| image = 3 Live Ghosts lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Thornton Freeland

| writer = Helen Hallett
Max Marcin

| story = Sally Winters

| based_on = {{based on|Three Live Ghosts
1920 play|Frederic S. Isham
Max Marcin}}

| producer = Max Marcin

| starring = Beryl Mercer

| cinematography = Robert H. Planck

| editing = Robert Kern

| music = Hugo Riesenfeld

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{Film date|1929|09|15}}

| runtime = 8 reels (7,486 feet)

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Three Live Ghosts is a 1929 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Beryl Mercer, Harry Stubbs, and Joan Bennett; with Robert Montgomery, and Tenen Holtz. The screenplay concerns three veterans of World War I who return home to London after the armistice, only to find they have been mistakenly listed as dead.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090205133326/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54227 BFI Database] It was based on the 1920 play Three Live Ghosts by Frederic S. Isham.

Made in the early sound era when Hollywood savored any successful play and its dialogue, this film is a rendition of the Broadway play and also a remake of the 1922 Paramount silent, Three Live Ghosts. Mercer, McNaughton, and Allister would reprise their roles for a 1936 remake produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.