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When Comedy Was King (1960)A feature-length documentary devoted to the great clowns of silent comedy. Director:Robert YoungsonWriter:Robert Youngson |
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| Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | ... |
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift'
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| Wallace Beery | ... |
edited from 'Teddy at The throttle'
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| Charles Chaplin | ... |
edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.'
(archive footage) (as Charlie Chaplin)
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| Charley Chase | ... |
edited from 'Movie Night'
(archive footage) (as Charlie Chase)
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| Buster Keaton | ... |
edited from 'Cops'
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Edgar Kennedy | ... |
edited from 'A Pair of Tights'
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Keystone Kops | ... |
(archive footage) (as The Keystone Cops)
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Harry Langdon | ... |
edited from 'The First 100 Years'
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| Stan Laurel | ... |
edited from 'Big Business'
(archive footage) (as Laurel)
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| Oliver Hardy | ... |
edited from 'Big Business'
(archive footage) (as Hardy)
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| Mabel Normand | ... |
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift'
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The Sennett Girls | ... |
edited from 'Yukon Jake'
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| Gloria Swanson | ... |
edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle'
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Ben Turpin | ... |
edited from 'Yukon Jake'
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| Billy Bevan | ... |
edited from 'Super Duper Dyne Lizzies, ' 'The Lion's Whiskers, ' 'Wall Street Blues, ' and' Wandering Willies'
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Robert Youngson's affectionate, nostalgic retrospective of the Golden Age of Silent Comedy with special attention to the three acknowledged comic geniuses of the period: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keatonm and Harry Landon. The two major comedy studios of the era, Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, especially Laurel an Hardy, are given credit as the great innovators of slapstick visual comedy. Written by duke1029@aol.com
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29 March 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Footage excerpted from Movie Night (1929), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), Teddy at the Throttle (1917), The First 100 Years (1924), It's a Gift (1923), A Pair of Tights (1929), Cops (1922), Yukon Jake (1924), Big Business (1929) and others. See more »Goofs
In the prologue, narrator Dwight Weist invites the viewer to enjoy "for the next 90 minutes..." The film runs only 81 minutes. See more »Quotes
Narrator: [Last lines] So ends our visit to the era of the great silent clowns who mass-produced laughter and sold happiness and who passed into oblivian just before the years when the world needed them the most.See more »
This film documents a wide range of silent classics with clips from Keystone comedies made by Charlie Chaplin in 1914 through Charley Chase's Movie Night (1929), which provides the framing sequence. Highlighted performers include Fatty Arbuckle in Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), Harry Langdon in The First 100 Years (1924), and Laurel & Hardy in Big Business (1929). Other featured performers include Gloria Swanson, Snub Pollard, Anita Garvin & Marion Byron, Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin, and Billy Bevan. The narration is a bit incessant, but educational.