Nuts in May is a 1917 silent comedy

Silent comedy

Silent comedy refers to a style of acting, related to but distinct from mime, invented to bring comedy into the medium of film in the silent film era before a sound track on film was technologically practicable...

 short, directed by Robin Williamson and featuring Stan Jefferson (aka Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...

) in his onscreen debut. It was filmed at Bernstein Studios, in Hollywood, California. Very little of the film survives (a little over 60 seconds). What does survive consists of Stan in various scrapes with a steamroller, ending with him in a straw boater being dragged off to the asylum.

Cast and crew

• Stan Laurel
  Stan Laurel
  Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson , better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film...
  
   (as Stan Jefferson)
• Mae Dahlberg
  Mae Dahlberg
  Mae Dahlberg , was a music hall and vaudeville performer and actress in several Hollywood silent movies. In 1917, while in California, she met and formed a variety act with Stan Laurel. In 1917 she played in a comedy short, Nuts in May, notable as the screen debut of Stan Laurel...
  
  
• Lucille Arnold
• Owen Evans
• Charles Arling
  Charles Arling
  Charles Arling was a Canadian actor of the silent era. He appeared in 111 films between 1909 and 1922.He was born in Toronto and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* In Little Italy...