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Title: Clarence

Date: 1922

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Director: William De Mille

Cast: Wallace Reid, Agnes Ayres, May McAvoy, Kathlyn Williams, Edward Martindel, Robert Agnew, Adolphe Menjou.

Summary: Mr. Wheeler hires war veteran Clarence as a handyman around the house and havoc breaks out in the volatile Wheeler household. Mr. Wheeler’s secretary accuses Clarence of being a deserter. A letter proves that he is actually a university professor and Clarence is able to win the heart of his beloved Violet, the Wheeler’s governess.

Notes: Matinee idol Wallace Reid in one of his last roles. He died within a year of a drug overdose. In response to Reid’s death, his widow Dorothy Davenport made “Human Wreckage,” an exposé of the dangers of drug use, and another film considered lost.