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Thelma Todd and Charley Chase.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Crazy Feet
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Warren Doane
Cast: Charley Chase [Charley], Thelma Todd [Thelma, a dancer], Edgar Kennedy [the first policeman], Eddie Dunn [Eddie, Thelma’s dancing partner]; Frank Austin [Dan, the stage door attendant], [?] ? [the second policeman], Jack Raymond [the stage director], Harry Bowen [a dancer at the stage door], Harry Keaton [a dancer at the stage door], Charlie Hall [a card-playing stagehand], Fred Warren [Fred, the pianist], Earl McCarthy [a dancer], Jack Maynard [the show’s producer], Charlie King [the first yes man], [?] ? [the second yes man]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. Screenplay by H.M. Walker, from a screen story by Leo McCarey. Story editor, H.M. Walker. Photographed (cinematography) by George Stevens. Sound recording engineer, Elmer Raguse. Film editor, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier). Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 7 September 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Chase’s fourth sound film. Hal Roach Studios production number C-24. [?] The film was likely to have also been released in the USA in a silent version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Beards (False) - Dancing: Dancers - Handwriting - Letters - Musical instruments: Pianos - Shoes - Street scenes - Synchronized sound film - Theatres: Dressing rooms, Props, Stage doors, Stagehands, Stages - Tobacco: Cigarettes, Cigars - Transportation: Automobiles, Motorcycles - Umbrellas - USA: California: Culver City - Water coolers
Listing updated: 4 October 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Edmonds-Todd p. 270; Maltin-Selected p. 62 : Vitaphone-1-3 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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