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Why Girls Love Sailors
A sailor holds a woman in a cabin.
What
A 1927 Pathé one-sheet for Why Girls Love Sailors, an American comedy short.
Why
Fred Guiol directed it for Hal Roach Studios with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and it was thought lost until the 1980s.
Notice
A woman's face peers through the porthole at the left, and the foot reads "Pathécomedy" over the Pathé rooster.
“A short found again”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Why Girls Love Sailors (1927), dir. Fred Guiol
- Country / studio
- United States · Hal Roach Studios
- Printer / stone
- Morgan Litho Co., Cleveland
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 1927
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
From Silent Hollywood
The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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