# Three Pals

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{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Three Pals
| image          = Three Pals (SAYRE 14576).jpg
| caption        = 
| director       = [Wilbur McGaugh](/source/Wilbur_McGaugh)<br>[Bruce Mitchell](/source/Bruce_M._Mitchell)
| producer       = [J. Charles Davis](/source/J._Charles_Davis)<br>[J. Frank Glendon](/source/J._Frank_Glendon)<br>Marilyn Mills
| writer         = [L.&nbsp;V. Jefferson](/source/L.%26nbsp%3BV._Jefferson)
| starring       = [Marilyn Mills](/source/Marilyn_Mills)<br>[Josef Swickard](/source/Josef_Swickard)<br>[William H. Turner](/source/William_H._Turner_(actor))
| music          = 
| editing        = 
| cinematography = [Robert De Grasse](/source/Robert_De_Grasse)
| studio         = Marilyn Mills Productions
| distributor    = Davis Distributing Division
| released       = {{film date|1926|1|5}}
| runtime        = 54 minutes
| country        = [United States](/source/United_States)
| language       = [Silent](/source/Silent_film)<br>[English](/source/English_language) [intertitle](/source/intertitle)s
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}
'''''Three Pals''''' is a [1926](/source/1926_in_film) [American](/source/United_States) [silent](/source/silent_film) [romance film](/source/romance_film) directed by [Wilbur McGaugh](/source/Wilbur_McGaugh) and [Bruce Mitchell](/source/Bruce_M._Mitchell) and starring [Marilyn Mills](/source/Marilyn_Mills), [Josef Swickard](/source/Josef_Swickard) and [William H. Turner](/source/William_H._Turner_(actor)).<ref>Munden p.805</ref> [Gary Cooper](/source/Gary_Cooper) made one of his earliest screen appearances as an [extra](/source/film_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](/source/Marilyn_Mills) as Betty Girard
*[Josef Swickard](/source/Josef_Swickard) as Col. Girard
*[William H. Turner](/source/William_H._Turner_(actor)) as Maj. Wingate
*Martin Turner as Uncle Lude
*[Ralph Emerson](/source/Ralph_Emerson_(actor)) as Larry Wingate
*[James McLaughlin](/source/James_McLaughlin_(actor)) as Wingate's Secretary
*[Gary Cooper](/source/Gary_Cooper) as Car Driver Flirting with Betty

==Preservation status==
The film is preserved in the [Library of Congress](/source/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==
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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.

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

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Category:1926 films
Category:1926 American films
Category:1926 English-language films
Category:1926 romance films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American silent romance films
Category:English-language romance films
Category:Films directed by Bruce M. Mitchell
Category:Surviving American silent films

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