Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes is an American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and Stan Laurel, starring James Finlayson, Ted Healy, Charlotte Mineau, and Helene Chadwick.

[1][2] Helene Chadwick plays a like-named student at Pinkham University who runs a shop selling sexy gowns.

The dean (James Finlayson) believes that Helene's shop is behind the recent breakdown of campus discipline and wants her expelled.

Helene and Napoleon promptly usher him into a compromising situation at a women's sorority house, and he is found emerging from the plaster's effects just as the university's president (Burr McIntosh) shows up.

[5][6] As for Stan Laurel, this may have been his final credited directorial assignment; shortly after the film's release, he was starting to be paired onscreen with Oliver Hardy,[7] en route to the team's official debut on October 8, 1927, in The Second Hundred Years.