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| director = Charles Hines

| producer = C.C. Burr

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| editing = George Amy

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| studio = C.C. Burr Productions

| distributor = First National Pictures

| released =

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

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'The Brown Derby' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Ruth Dwyer, and Edmund Breese.Munden p. 376[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BrownDerby1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Brown Derby'] at silentera.com A young plumber inherits a brown Derby hat from his uncle, which is said to bring good luck to its owner. While wearing it fortune does seem to smile on him, although it is in fact a case of mistaken identity.

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The film survives in the archives of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), UCLA Film and Television Archive, and National Archives of Canada.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2952/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Brown Derby']

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Bibliography



* Munden, Kenneth White. 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press, 1997.


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