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The Wright Idea

1928 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ62015543 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wright Idea is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine, and Edmund Breese.

Plot

Cast

Johnny Hines as Johnny Wright

Louise Lorraine as Helen

Edmund Breese as Mr. Filbert

Walter James as Capt. Sandy

Fred Kelsey as M.T. Flatt

Henry A. Barrows as Mr. Smoot

Henry Hebert as Mr. Stein

Charles Giblyn as Mr. Carter

Jack McHugh as Spec

J. Barney Sherry as O.J. Gude

Charles K. Gerrard as Mr. Roberts

Betty Westmore as Betty

Blanche Craig as Mrs. O'Toole

Richard Maitland as Mr. Saunders

References

Bibliography

Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36, Volume 40, Issue 2.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Wright Idea” as 1928 film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 1910—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928. The account is most persuasive where Wright, Idea and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1928 film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q62015543. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 1910.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Wright Idea”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Wright Idea primary sources, The Wright Idea archive and Wright research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Wright Idea”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Wright Idea” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.