The Cheerful Fraud is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Otis Harlan.

[1][2] It is based on a 1925 novel of the same title by British writer Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne.

[3] Sir Michael Fairlie pretends to be the new employee at the residence owned by the Bytheways, in order to spend time with their social secretary, whom he has encountered in a London rainstorm, .

Meanwhile, a notorious crook turns up at the house pretending to be Sir Michael, with an eye on stealing family jewels.

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