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    Alice Day and Harry Langdon

Directed by                      Erle C. Kenton
Produced by                    Mack Sennett Comedies
Starring                           Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent, Alberta Vaughn, Alice Day
Cinematography             George Spear
Distributed by                 Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Release date                     February 3, 1924
Running time                   21 minutes
Country                            United States
Language                          Silent film, English intertitles

We have included this film in our program to illustrate the work and contributions of our star Alice Day.

"Picking Peaches" is a Mack Sennett short comedy starring Harry Langdon and featuring Alice Day.  This is the film, in which Harry Langdon made his acting debut. A very young Marceline Day appears as a bathing beauty.

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    Marceline Day

Directed by                      Harry Edwards
Produced by                    Mack Sennett Comedies
Starring                           Harry Langdon, Marceline Day, Andy Clyde, Charlotte Mineau, Madeline Hurlock
Cinematography             Vernon Walker and Lee Davis
Distributed by                 Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Release date                     October 12, 1924
Running time                   19 minutes
Country                            United States
Language                          Silent film, English intertitles

We have included this film in our program to illustrate the work and contributions of our star Marceline Day.

"The Hansom Cabman" is a nice Mack Sennett short comedy starring Harry Langdon and a charming 16 year young Marceline Day.

Harry wakes up with a bad hangover from the night before.  It turns out that today he supposed to get married, but when his fiancée Marceline Day calls him on the phone,  he can't pull himself together and goes back to bed.  He is in for a rude awakening, however, as an unfamiliar woman shows up in his bedroom and declares that she is his wife.  His butler confirms that they got married the night before.

Marceline Day has a bad feeling about the situation and she brings her mother to deal with Harry.  He really can't remember anything about last night.  Then he and his would-be wife have a little scuffle, she cries "wife beater" and Harry gets arrested and put in jail.

By a trick of circumstance the judge that presides on the bail hearing is Marceline Day's father.  He, of course, is in no mood to release the suspect, and Harry goes back to jail.  Mysteriously he is able to escape and goes undercover as a cab driver.

In the meantime the would-be wife confesses that the alleged matrimony of the night before never happened and was a scheme arranged by the butler.  Marceline Day is relieved, her father makes a call to have Harry released from jail, but he is nowhere to be found.

The film enjoys a very "hansom" rating in IMDB.

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   Marceline Day talks on the phone with her fiance

   Marceline Day

Directed by                      Harry Edwards
Produced by                    Mack Sennett Comedies
Starring                           Harry Langdon, Marceline Day, Frank Coleman, Madeline Hurlock, Kalla Pasha
Cinematography             WM. Williams
Distributed by                 Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Release date                     September 14, 1924
Running time                   21 minutes
Country                            United States
Language                          Silent film, English intertitles

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We have included this film in our program to illustrate the work and contributions of our star Marceline Day.

This is a nice Mack Sennett short comedy, directed by Harry Edwards and starring "Babyface" Harry Langdon and a charming 16 year young Marceline Day.  The plot is extremely entertaining, with three clearly discernible parts - fast-slow-fast, like in an 18th century music concert of the classic period.  

The first part includes all the action in a night train, with expected, but nonetheless funny stepping on each other's toes,  spilling on each other's faces and getting my mistake in each other's beds.  The morning train keeps the action going.  Harry does an amazing job of shaving with a shaking blade that goes perilously close to the face of a horrified fellow male passenger.   Then Harry and Marcie get seated next to a chained criminal, who somehow pulls out an arsenal of guns and a shootout ensues, during which Harry loses his tie, but keeps all his body parts intact.  In the confusion a bad guy steals Harry's wallet, which, we learn, has the life savings of the young couple. 

The second part is very slow, and probably only Harry Langdon could have made it amusing.  The money lost and the business opportunity gone with it, he goes back to his old job as a policeman.  Harry accidentally chews up some tobacco with his lunch sandwich, which makes him dizzy and disoriented.  Amazingly, he escapes unscathed form crawling between cars on the road.

The last part brims with action again.  Marcie, who is making a living as a seamstress, unexpectedly gets invited to a party.  She is unwilling to join, but accidentally notices Harry's stolen wallet in possession of the house's host.  She accepts the invitation, and succeeds in recovering the wallet, but a struggle with the "heavy" follows.  In the meantime, both Harry and the armed criminal show up at the house.  As the title suggests, Harry and Marcie manage to keep their money at the cost of being blown up a pole, their clothes in shreds, but their spirit intact.

This is Marceline Day's second leading role after the one in "Black Oxfords".  In "The Luck o' the Foolish" she performs very nicely in all episodes, and makes a significant contribution for the film's good reception - it enjoys a handsome viewer rating in IMDB.   For Marceline Day this film is a stepping stone on the road to greater success and recognition, which began to materialize with dramatic roles in 1925 and 1926.

The film enjoys a very nice rating in IMDB.

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   Marceline Day

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