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Buster Keaton (center).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Seven Chances
(1925) United States of America
Color/B&W : Six reels / 5113 feet
Directed by Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton [James Shannon], T. Roy Barnes [William Meekin, his business partner], Snitz Edwards [the Shannon estate lawyer], Ruth Dwyer [Mary Jones, Jimmie’s girl], Frankie Raymond [her mother], Erwin Connelly [the clergyman], Jules Cowles [the hired man]; Eugenia Gilbert [the first chance], Doris Deane [the second chance], Judy King [the third chance], Hazel Deane [the fourth chance], Bartine Burkett [the fifth chance], Connie Evans [the sixth chance], Pauline Taller (Pauline Toler) [the seventh chance], Jean Arthur [Miss Smith, the country club switchboard operator], Rosalind Mooney (Rosalind Byrne) [the hat check girl], Loro Bara [the mother of the underage girl], Louise Carver [the ‘bride’ who drives the railyard crane], Rosa Gore [a ‘bride’ at the church], Edna Hammon [the locker room maid], Marion Harlan [the driving woman Jimmie proposes to], Jean Havez [the man at the top of the office building stairs], Barbara Pierce [a ‘bride’ at the church], Kate Price [a ‘bride’ at the church], Billy Rinaldi [the beekeeper], Julian Rivero [the barber], Constance Talmadge [the woman at the club with a baby], S.D. Wilcox [a policeman], Eugénie Burkette, [?] ? [the Meekin & Shannon secretary]
Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn Production; A Metro-Goldwyn Picture]. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Screen version (scenario) by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph Mitchell, from the play Seven Chances by Roi Cooper Magrue. Art direction by Fred Gabourie. Electrician, Denver Harmon. Photography (cinematography) by Elgin Lessley and Byron Houck. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 22 April 1925 by Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated [LP21376]. Released 16 March 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. [?] FilmYearBook-1926 p. 53 lists the release date as 22 March 1925.
Comedy.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [first-generation 35mm nitrate positive]; and in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection, formerly Keaton’s personal materials) [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - Animals: Cows, Horses, Turtles - Blackface - Churches - Color cinematography - Country clubs - Inheritances - Jews - Law enforcement: Policemen - Licenses (Marriage) - Marriages - Newspapers - Provisions - Stockbrokers - Tickets (Train) - Wills
Listing updated: 24 October 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 487; Dardis-Keaton pp. 114, 115, 122, 124-126, 133, 144, 291; Eames-MGM p. 21; Everson-American pp. 271, 273, 280; Fell-History p. 96; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 53; Kerr-Silent pp. 37, 212, 217, 218, 225, 229, 234, 235, 236, 240, 293; Limbacher-Feature p. 218; McGhee-Wayne p. 107; Mottram-Danish p. 75; Robinson-Palace p. 122; Sinyard-Silent pp. 114, 115; Vermilye-Twenties p. 101 : Website-AFI, Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
Streaming: Amazon.
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