08 Apr 2022
What?
WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own hands.
Bashful
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Top Billed Cast
Harold Lloyd Harold
Harry 'Snub' Pollard Snub the Butler
Bebe Daniels The Girl
William Blaisdell Uncle Bill (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland Musician (uncredited)
Bud Jamison (uncredited)
Dorothea Wolbert The Cook (uncredited)
James Morrison 
Sammy Brooks Billy Fay 
William Gillespie Max Hamburger Annette Hatten Oscar Larson Maynard Laswell 
Gus Leonard M.J. McCarthy 
Belle Mitchell Evelyn Page Hazel Powell
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