That's My Daddy / Different From the Others
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This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series The Art of the Benshi 2026. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In person: benshi Ichirō Kataoka, composer and pianist Makia Matsumura.
That's My Daddy (1928)
One of Reginald Denny’s last silent comedies before he successfully transitioned to sound, That’s My Daddy may also be one of his most charming. Denny stars as a wealthy playboy who invents an injured daughter to get out of a speeding ticket only to find a real little girl (Jane La Verne) waiting to play the role after the obliging cop escorts him to the hospital. And on his wedding day, no less. Denny, one of Universal’s biggest stars at the time, told Kevin Brownlow that he took over from Harold Lloyd’s regular director Fred C. Newmeyer after a disagreement about comedic approach although Denny is only officially credited with the story.
DCP, silent with live musical accompaniment. Director: Fred Newmeyer. Screenwriters: Pierre Couderc, Albert DeMond, Earle Snell, Faith Thomas. With: Reginald Denny, Barbara Kent, Lillian Rich.
Different From the Others (1919)
A landmark film almost lost to history, Different from the Others is widely considered the first feature-length film aimed at a specifically gay audience made all the more significant for its humanistic depiction of gay men and its explicit plea for the end of their social and legal persecution. Soon-to-be screen legend Conrad Veidt plays Paul Koerner, a celebrated concert violinist who lives under constant fear of blackmail and imprisonment because of Germany’s antigay law, Article 175. When his relationship with a new protégé raises suspicions, all of Koerner’s fears become real. Though the film still only exists as a fragment, Different From the Others remains a compelling artifact from a fleeting progressive moment in German and cinema history.
Director: Richard Oswald. Screenwriters: Magnus Hirschfeld, Richard Oswald. With: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh, Ernst Pittschau.
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