Cheating Cheaters (1919 film)

Cheating Cheaters
Film poster
Directed byAllan Dwan
Written byKathryn Stuart
Based on1916 Broadway play of the same name by Max Marcin[1]
Produced byClara Kimball Young
StarringJack Holt
Clara Kimball Young
CinematographyArthur Edeson
Distributed bySelect Pictures
Release date
  • January 26, 1919 (1919-01-26)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUSA
LanguageSilent...English titles

Cheating Cheaters is a 1919 silent film comedy directed by Allan Dwan and starring Jack Holt and Clara Kimball Young. Young's production company produced. It was released by Select Pictures Corporation.[2][3]

Kathryn Stuart was the writer, based on a 1916 Broadway play of the same name by Max Marcin.[1] The play would be adapted again in 1927 and in 1934.[2]

Cast

Preservation

Cheating Cheaters is currently presumed lost.[4][5] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Lombardi, Frederic. Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios, p. 335 (2013)
  2. 1 2 "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Cheating Cheaters". afi.com. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  3. ↑ Cheating Cheaters at silentera.com
  4. ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Cheating Cheaters". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
  5. ↑ Cheating Cheaters; The Clara Kimball Young Website
  6. ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 21, 2026.