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Buster Keaton (center).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Spite Marriage
Also known as A Romeo in Pyjamas in the United Kingdom
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 7047 feet
Directed by Edward Sedgwick + [Buster Keaton]
Cast: Buster Keaton [Elmer Edgemont], Dorothy Sebastian [Trilby Drew], Edward Earle [Lionel Denmore], Leila Hyams [Ethyle Norcrosse], William Bechtel [Frederick Nussbaum], John Byron (Jack Byron) [Giovanni Scarzi]; Hank Mann [the stage manager], Theodore Lorch [an actor as a Union officer], Sydney Jarvis [a man in the audience next to Elmer], Pat Harmon [the tugboat captain], Charles Sullivan [the tough sailor], Mike Donlin [a man in the engine room], Joe Bordeaux [the rumrunner], Gil Perkins [a stunt performer], Bob Rose [a stunt performer]
Joseph M. Schenck Productions production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production]. / Produced by Edward Sedgwick. Scenario by Richard Schayer, from the adaptation by Ernest S. Pagano of a screen story by Lew Lipton. Production supervision by Lawrence Weingarten. Production management by Edward Brophy. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Wardrobe (costume design) by David Cox. Makeup artist, Monte Westmore. Cinematography by Reggie Lanning. Camera operator, George Gordon Nogle. Music arrangement by William Axt and Edward Cupero. Film editor, Frank Sullivan. Intertitles written by Robert E. Hopkins. / © 22 April 1929 by Joseph M. Schenck [LP329]. Released 6 April 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 6500 feet) by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Comedy.
Survival status: Prints exist [35mm positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film - Tailors - Theatre
Listing updated: 12 December 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 318; Brownlow-Parade p. 488; Dardis-Keaton pp. 166, 171-172, 173, 174, 176, 189, 230, 256, 273, 293; Kerr-Silent pp. 242, 245, 256; Limbacher-Feature p. 231; Maltin-Selected p. 155; Sinyard-Silent pp. 119, 182 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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