One Can't Always Tell

{{short description|1913 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = One Can't Always Tell | image = Onecantalwaystell1913.tiff | caption = | director = Van Dyke Brooke | producer = | writer = Marguerite Bertsch | starring = Mary Maurice Kate Price Lillian Walker Rosemary Theby Rose Tapley Louise Beaudet | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Vitagraph | released = {{Film date|1913|05|31}} | runtime = 613 ft<ref>To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette, Volumes 3-4, August 9, 1913, p. 112, retrieved October 5, 2015</ref> | country = United States | language = Silent English intertitles }} '''''One Can't Always Tell''''' is a short American silent comedy film.

==Release== ''One Can't Always Tell'' was released on May 31, 1913, in the United States, where it was presented as a split-reel with ''If Dreams Came True; or, Who'd Have Thunk It?'', another Vitagraph comedy. It reached Ashland, Oregon, in July, 1913,<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042399/1913-07-24/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1913&index=1&rows=20&words=Always+Can+Can%27t+One+t+Tell&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1914&proxtext=%22One+Can%27t+Always+Tell%22&y=13&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Star Theatre]. ''Ashland Daily Tidings''. Volume XXXVIII. Number 17. 24 July 1913. p 4. Retrieved 31 January 2016</ref> and Ocala, Florida, in August.<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027621/1913-08-26/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1913&index=3&rows=20&words=Always+Can+Can%27t+One+t+Tell&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1914&proxtext=%22One+Can%27t+Always+Tell%22&y=13&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Entertainments at the Temple This Evening]. ''Ocala Evening Star''. Volume 20. Number 76. 26 August 1913. p 6. Retrieved 31 January 2016</ref> It was released in England on September 18, 1913,<ref>To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette, Volumes 3-4, August 9, 1913, p. 112, retrieved October 5, 2015</ref> reached Christchurch, New Zealand, a month later,<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19131021.2.3.6 Amusements]. ''The Press''. Volume XLIX, Issue 14802. 21 October 1913. p 1. Accessed 5 October 2015</ref> and Dunedin in November.<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ODT19131115.2.2.4 New Queen's Theatre]. Otago Daily Times. Issue 15922. 15 November 1913. p 1. Accessed 5 October 2015</ref>

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Category:1913 films Category:1913 comedy films Category:American silent comedy short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1913 short films Category:Films directed by Van Dyke Brooke Category:1913 American films Category:1913 English-language films Category:English-language comedy short films