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Alas! Poor Yorick
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Colin Campbell
Cast: Wheeler Oakman [Montgomery Irving, the real actor], Thomas Santschi (Tom Santschi) [Hamlet McGinnis, the deranged actor], Hobart Bosworth [the theatre manager], Lillian Hayward [Ophelia Jones], John Lancaster, Frank Clark, Roscoe Arbuckle [the player in female costume]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Colin Campbell. / © 17 April 1913 by The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated. Released 21 April 1913; in a split-reel with Canton, China (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Thought to be Arbuckle’s first screen appearance dressed as a woman.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Selig promotional materials] In the grounds of a sanitarium are gathered a number of mentally (but harmless) deranged patients. The most conspicuous is a tall tragedian. When he escapes from his keepers the superintendent concludes that he will naturally make his way to the theater in search of an engagement. The various managers are notified, and the first man that excites suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a poor actor of the antique type, who honestly and vociferously applies for a position. He does not understand why he is detained without a contract, and is about to pull the house down when the manager receives word that the real “dip” has been recaptured elsewhere.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 December 2024.
References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 163, 342, 385; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 41, 244; Katchmer-Eighty p. 863; Lahue-Selig p. 146 : Website-IMDb.
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