When Comedy Was King (1960)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle	...	edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage) (as Fatty Arbuckle)
	Wallace Beery	...	edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)
	Charles Chaplin	...	edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage) (as Charlie Chaplin)
	Charley Chase	...	edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage) (as Charlie Chase)
	Buster Keaton	...	edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
	Edgar Kennedy	...	edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
	Keystone Kops	...	(archive footage) (as The Keystone Cops)
	Harry Langdon	...	edited from 'The First 100 Years' (archive footage)
	Stan Laurel	...	edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage) (as Laurel)
	Oliver Hardy	...	edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage) (as Hardy)
	Mabel Normand	...	edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
	The Sennett Girls	...	edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)
	Gloria Swanson	...	edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
	Ben Turpin	...	edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)
	Billy Bevan	...	edited from 'Super Duper Dyne Lizzies, ' 'The Lion's Whiskers, ' 'Wall Street Blues, ' and' Wandering Willies' (archive footage)

Storyline

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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