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When Comedy Was King

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When Comedy Was King ()

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  • Release: 1960-03-29
  • Director: Robert Youngson
  • Writers: Robert Youngson
  • Language: English
  • Stars: Charles Chaplin , Buster Keaton , Oliver Hardy
  • Runtime: 81 min
  • Awards: N/A
  • AKA: La edad de oro de la comedia (Venezuela) , La parata dell'allegria (Italy) , When Comedy Was King , Als Lachen Trumpf war , Kun nauru oli valttia (Finland) , Quand le rire était roi (France, French Republic) , When Comedy Was King (United States of America) , When Comedy Was King (United Kingdom) , Os Reis da Comédia (Brazil) , Latter er trumf (Denmark) , Kom så skrattar vi! (Sweden) , Risas y más risas (Mexico) , Oi megaloi tou geliou (Greece) , När skrattet var trumf (Finland) , 喜劇の王様たち (Japan)
  • Plot: 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.
  • IMDB:tt0054468
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When Comedy Was King Cast · · · ALL

Robert Youngson
Director
Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Wallace Beery (1885–1949)
edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)
Charley Chase
edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)
Buster Keaton
edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
Edgar Kennedy
edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
Harry Langdon
edited from 'The First 100 Years'
Stan Laurel
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Mabel Normand
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Gloria Swanson
edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
Ben Turpin
edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)

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