You Can't Always Tell

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| director = William Garwood

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| starring = William Garwood
Violet Mersereau

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| distributor = Universal Film Manufacturing Company

| released = {{Film date|1915|05|28}}

| runtime = 2 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent film
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You Can't Always Tell is a 1915 American silent short film directed by and starring William Garwood in the lead role with Violet Mersereau.{{cite book|last=Braff|first=Richard E. |title=The Universal Silents: A Filmography Of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929|year=1999|isbn=0-786-40287-3|page=573}} It is one of several short films that Garwood and Mersereau starred in together and Garwood directed.{{cite book|last1=Doyle|first1=Billy H.|last2=Slide|first2=Anthony |title=The Ultimate Directory Of the Silent Screen Performers: A Necrology Of Births and Deaths and Essays On 50 Lost Players|year=1995|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-810-82958-4|page=28}}