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{{About|the 1920s film series|other uses|Let George do it (disambiguation){{!}}Let George do it}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Let George Do It'' (film series)}} '''''Let George Do It''''' was a series of [[two-reeler]] American silent comedy films produced in the latter half of the 1920s. The films (40 in all) were based on the comic strip ''Let George Do It'', which was written and drawn by [[George McManus]] (who later created the more famous strip ''[[Bringing Up Father]]'').<ref name=TravSD/><ref name=Fanning/><ref name=Lileks/> The series was produced by the Stern Brothers ([[Julius Stern (producer)|Julius Stern]] and [[Abe Stern]])<ref name=TravSD/> and was one of many silent comedy series issued by [[Universal Pictures]]. [[Syd Saylor]] starred as George in all of the films. His supporting players included Thelma Daniels,<ref name=Massa/> Jean Doree,<ref name=Massa2/> [[Dorothy Gulliver]],<ref name="IMDb And George Did It"/> [[Colin Chase]],<ref name="IMDb And George Did It"/> [[Dorothy Coburn]],<ref name="IMDb All For Geraldine"/> Harry Martell,<ref name="IMDb All For Geraldine"/> [[Derelys Perdue]],<ref name="IMDb Hot Puppies"/> Marie D'Arcy,<ref name="IMDb Hot Puppies"/> Betty Walsh,<ref name="IMDb Seeing Sights"/> and Lorima Clark.<ref name="IMDb Seeing Sights"/> The ''New York Times'', in a 1927 review of one of the shorts (on the bill with the feature ''[[The Callahans and the Murphys]]'' at the [[Capitol Theatre (New York City)|Capitol Theatre]]), described it as a "comedy of the conventional kind" which "gets its share of laughs".<ref name=NYTimes/> Raymond Ganly, in ''[[Motion Picture News]]'', wrote that ''Television George'' "contains some good fun patterned after the usual 'dumb' comedy style of its star, Syd Saylor" and "releases a high proportion of merriment".<ref name=Ganly/> ==Films in the series== * ''George The Winner'' (1926),<ref name=Massa/> directed by Francis Corby<ref name="IMDb George The Winner"/> * ''Why George!'' (1926) * ''George's in Love'' (1926) * ''And George Did!'' (1926), directed by Scott Pembroke<ref name="IMDb And George Did It"/> * ''By George'' (1927) * ''George Runs Wild'' (1927) * ''Backward George'' (1927) * ''George Leaves Home'' (1927) * ''Kid George'' (1927), directed by Francis Corby<ref name="IMDb Kid George"/> * ''George's Many Loves'' (1927) * ''On Furlough'' (1927) <ref name=Massa2/> directed by [[Sam Newfield]]<ref name="IMDb On Furlough"/> * ''Oh, Taxi!'' (1927), directed by Francis Corby<ref name="IMDb Oh Taxi"/> * ''Rushing Business'' (1927) * ''George Steps Out'' (1927) * ''Picking On George'' (1927), directed by George Meins<ref name="IMDb Picking On George"/> * ''The Disordered Orderly'' (1927),<ref name=Massa2/> directed by Gus Meins and Sam Newfield<<ref name="IMDb The Disordered Orderly"/> * ''On Deck'' (1927),<ref name=Massa2/> directed by Sam Newfield<ref name="IMDb On Deck"/> * ''Model George'' (1927) * ''High Flyin' George'' (1928) * ''Man of Letters'' (1928) * ''George's False Alarm'' (1928), directed by Sam Newfield<ref name=Dixon/><ref name="IMDb George's False Alarm"/> * ''Watch, George!'' (1928) * ''When George Hops'' (1928) * ''Sailor George'' (1928), directed by Sam Newfield]<ref name=Dixon/> * ''George's School Daze'' (1928), directed by Sam Newfield<ref name=Dixon/> * ''George Meets George'' (1928) * ''Big Game George'' (1928) * ''She's My Girl'' (1928) * ''Rubbernecks'' (1928), directed by Gus Meins ::Antics at a restaurant with George and Pal making flapjacks and later posing as detectives in a hotel.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} * ''Look Pleasant'' (1928) * ''The Cross Country Bunion Race'' (1928) * ''All For Geraldine'' (1928), directed by Gus Meins<ref name="IMDb All For Geraldine"/> * ''Sailor Suits'' (1929), directed by Gus Meins<ref name="IMDb Sailor Suits"/> * ''Crushed Hats'' (1929), directed by Gus Meins<ref name="IMDb Crushed Hats"/> * ''Television George'' (1929), directed by Francis Corby<ref name=Dartmouth/><ref name="IMDb Television George"/> ::This film posits a world where television is practicable. George carries on with girls in a television broadcasting studio, unaware that his wife is seeing this on her receiving set. Hijinks ensue.<ref name=Ganly/> * ''Seeing Sights'' (1929), directed by Gus Meins<ref name="IMDb Seeing Sights"/> * ''Private Business'' (1929), directed by Gus Meins<ref name="IMDb Private Business"/> * ''Close Shaves'' (1929), directed by Francis Corby<ref name="IMDb Close Shaves"/> * ''Hot Puppies'' (1929), directed by Gus Meins<ref name="IMDb Hot Puppies"/> * ''Fly Cops'' (1929), directed by Francis Corby<ref name=CopyrightOffice/> * ''The Cut-Ups'' (1929), directed by Francis Corby<ref name=CopyrightOffice/> ::Henry thinks he has inherited a million and George decides to pose as a butler to impress his girl and her many relatives.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=Dixon>{{cite book |last=Dixon |first=Wheeler Winston |title=Cinema at the Margins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Czc0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |year=2013 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=9780857281869 |page=64}}</ref> <ref name=Fanning>{{cite journal |last1=Fanning |first1=Charles |title=George McManus and Irish America |url=http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v7_2/fanning/ |journal=ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies |publisher=Department of English, University of Florida |volume=7 |issue=2 |issn=1549-6732 |access-date=May 20, 2020}}</ref> <ref name=Lileks>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408034747/http://www.lileks.com/comics/kingfeatures/32b.html |archive-date=April 8, 2013 |url=http://www.lileks.com/comics/kingfeatures/32b.html |title=George McManus |work=Lileks |access-date=May 20, 2020}}</ref> <ref name=Massa>{{cite book |last=Massa |first=Steve |title=Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtCKDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA1910 |access-date=May 21, 2020 |year=2017 |publisher=BearManor Media |isbn=978-1629331324 |page=1910}}</ref> <ref name=Massa2>Massa, page 1925</ref> <ref name=TravSD>{{cite web |url=https://travsd.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/sunday-funnies-2-dozen-comic-strips-that-became-silent-comedy-films/ |title=Sunday Funnies: 2 Dozen Comic Strips That Became Silent Comedy Films |author=Trav S.D. (Donald Travis Stewart) |author-link=Trav S.D. |date=March 18, 2018 |work=Travalanche |access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref> <ref name=NYTimes>{{cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/07/12/issue.html |title=A Roughhouse Comedy |date=July 12, 1927 |work=New York Times |access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref> <ref name=Dartmouth>{{cite journal |last1=Koszarski |first1=Richard |last2=Galili |first2=Doron |date=2016 |title=Television in the Cinema Before 1939: An International Annotated Database |url=https://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/4/article/471 |journal=Journal of e-Media Studies |publisher=Dartmouth College Library |volume=5 |issue=1 |doi=10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.471 |access-date=May 20, 2020|doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=Ganly>{{cite web |url=https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/motionpic39moti_0646 |title=Television George |author=Raymond Ganly |date=April–June 1929 |work=Motion Picture News |publisher=Media History Digital Library and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts |access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref> <ref name=CopyrightOffice>{{cite book |title=Library of Congress Copyright Office - Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=As5DAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA23 |volume=2 |number=1 |access-date=May 22, 2020 |year=1929 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |pages=23–24}}</ref> <ref name="IMDb And George Did It">{{IMDb title |0245714 |And George Did It!}}</ref>{{Better source needed |date=May 2020 |reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb George's False Alarm">{{IMDb title |0248034 |George's False Alarm}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Picking On George">{{IMDb title |0174118 |Picking On George}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Oh Taxi">{{IMDb title |0248253 |Oh Taxi!}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Kid George">{{IMDb title |0322945 |Kid George}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Hot Puppies">{{IMDb title |0322616 |Hot Puppies}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Close Shaves">{{IMDb title |0321724 |Close Shaves}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Private Business">{{IMDb title |0323712 |Private Business}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Seeing Sights">{{IMDb title |0323915 |Seeing Sights}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Television George">{{IMDb title |0324190|Television George}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Crushed Hats">{{IMDb title |0321861 |Crushed Hats}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb Sailor Suits">{{IMDb title |0323868 |Sailor Suits}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb The Disordered Orderly">{{IMDb title |0322037 |The Disordered Orderly}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb All For Geraldine">{{IMDb title |0321139 |All For Geraldine}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb On Deck">{{IMDb title |0323490 |On Deck}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb George The Winner">{{IMDb title |0322390 |George The Winner}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} <ref name="IMDb On Furlough">{{IMDb title |0323492 |On Furlough}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020|reason=IMDb is considered a quite marginal source... need to get a more reliable ref}} }} [[Category:Short films based on comics]] [[Category:Films based on American comics]] [[Category:Film series introduced in 1926]] [[Category:American film series]] [[Category:Comedy film series]] [[Category:Short film series]]

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