{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Three Pals | image = Three Pals (SAYRE 14576).jpg | caption = | director = Wilbur McGaugh<br>Bruce Mitchell | producer = J. Charles Davis<br>J. Frank Glendon<br>Marilyn Mills | writer = L.&nbsp;V. Jefferson | starring = Marilyn Mills<br>Josef Swickard<br>William H. Turner | music = | editing = | cinematography = Robert De Grasse | studio = Marilyn Mills Productions | distributor = Davis Distributing Division | released = {{film date|1926|1|5}} | runtime = 54 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent<br>English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Three Pals''''' is a 1926 American silent romance film directed by Wilbur McGaugh and Bruce Mitchell and starring Marilyn Mills, Josef Swickard and William H. Turner.<ref>Munden p.805</ref> Gary Cooper made one of his earliest screen appearances as an extra.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThreePals1925.html ''Three Pals'' at silentera.com]</ref><ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/12673-THREE-PALS?sid= The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: ''Three Pals'']</ref>

==Cast== *Marilyn Mills as Betty Girard *Josef Swickard as Col. Girard *William H. Turner as Maj. Wingate *Martin Turner as Uncle Lude *Ralph Emerson as Larry Wingate *James McLaughlin as Wingate's Secretary *Gary Cooper as Car Driver Flirting with Betty

==Preservation status== The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.<ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', (<-book title) p.184 c.1978 by The American Film Institute</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=|others=|title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Three Pals|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2277/default.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716210746/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2277/default.html|archive-date=2019-07-16|access-date=2025-08-24|website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

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

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0017465}}

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