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Seven Chances

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Seven Chances is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, based on the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue, produced in 1916 by David Belasco. [1]

42 relations: Brideless Groom, British Film Institute, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton filmography, Byron Houck, Chicken wire, Chris O'Donnell, Clyde Bruckman, Comedy, Constance Talmadge, David Belasco, Elgin Lessley, Husbands Beware, International Buster Keaton Society, Jean Arthur, Jean Havez, Joseph M. Schenck, Kino International (company), List of American comedy films, List of early color feature films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mordaunt Hall, Muskegon, Michigan, Natalie Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Papier-mâché, Pierre Étaix, Renée Zellweger, Roi Cooper Megrue, Roscoe Arbuckle, Seven Chances (play), Silent film, Snitz Edwards, T. Roy Barnes, Technicolor, The Bachelor (1999 film), The New York Times, The Suitor, The Three Stooges, Time Out Group, Turner Classic Movies, 1999 in film.

Brideless Groom

Brideless Groom is the 101st short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1947 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Buster Keaton filmography

These are the films of American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Buster Keaton.

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Byron Houck

Byron Simon Houck (August 28, 1891 – June 17, 1969) was an American cinematographer and pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1910s.

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Chicken wire

Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh of wire commonly used to fence in fowl, such as chickens, in a run or coop.

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Chris O'Donnell

Christopher Eugene O'Donnell (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor.

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Clyde Bruckman

Clyde Adolf Bruckman (June 30, 1894January 4, 1955) was an American writer and director of comedy films during the late silent era as well as the early sound era of cinema.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Constance Talmadge

Constance Alice Talmadge (April 19, 1898 – November 23, 1973) was an American silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York.

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David Belasco

David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.

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Elgin Lessley

Elgin Lessley (also credited as Lesly, Lessly, and Leslie) (June 10, 1883 - January 10, 1944) was an American hand-crank cameraman of the silent film era—a period of filmmaking when virtually all special effects work had to be produced inside the camera during filming.

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Husbands Beware

Husbands Beware is the 167th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1956 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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International Buster Keaton Society

The International Buster Keaton Society Inc.— a.k.a. "The Damfinos"—is the official educational organization dedicated to comedy film producer-director-writer-actor-stuntman Buster Keaton.

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Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress and a film star of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Jean Havez

Jean Constant Havez (December 24, 1869 – February 11, 1925)- Class of 1893 at Johns Hopkins University - was an American writer of novelty songs, vaudeville skits, and silent era comedy films.

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Joseph M. Schenck

Joseph Michael Schenck (December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive.

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Kino International (company)

Kino International is a film and video distributor, founded by Bill Pence in 1977.

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List of American comedy films

This is a list of American comedy films.

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List of early color feature films

This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio favorite.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mordaunt Hall

Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934.

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Muskegon, Michigan

Muskegon is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and is the largest populated city on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan.

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Natalie Talmadge

Natalie Talmadge (April 29, 1896 – June 19, 1969) was an American silent film actress who was best known as the wife of Buster Keaton, and sister of her movie star siblings, Norma and Constance Talmadge.

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Norma Talmadge

Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era.

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Papier-mâché

Papier-mâché (literally "chewed paper") is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.

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Pierre Étaix

Pierre Étaix (23 November 1928 – 14 October 2016) was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker.

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Renée Zellweger

Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer.

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Roi Cooper Megrue

Roi Cooper Megrue (June 12, 1882 – February 27, 1927) was a Broadway playwright, producer, director, active on Broadway from 1914 to 1921.

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Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter.

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Seven Chances (play)

Seven Chances is a 1916 play written by Roi Cooper Megrue and produced by David Belasco.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Snitz Edwards

Snitz Edwards (born Edward Neumann, 1 January 1868 – 1 May 1937) was a stage and character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s.

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T. Roy Barnes

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Bachelor (1999 film)

The Bachelor is a 1999 romantic comedy film directed by Gary Sinyor and written by Steve Cohen.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Suitor

The Suitor (Le Soupirant) is a 1962 French comedy film directed by and starring Pierre Étaix.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958.

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Time Out Group

Time Out Group is a British media company which is publisher of magazines and travel guidebooks covering events, entertainment and culture in cities around the world.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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1999 in film

The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction hit The Matrix, the Deep Canvas-pioneering Disney animated feature Tarzan and Best Picture-winner American Beauty and the well-received The Green Mile, as well as the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Stuart Little and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Chances

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