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The Charley Chase Talkies - 1929-1940 (Hardcover)
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Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a
comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his
real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's
Keystone studio in 1914, costarring in early films of Charlie
Chaplin and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, as well as directing the
frenetic Keystone Cops. By 1924 he was starring in a series of
one-reel comedies at Hal Roach studios, graduating to two-reel
films the following year. In 1929, he made the transition to sound
films. Along with the continuing popularity of his own short
comedies, Chase often directed the films of others, including
several popular Three Stooges efforts. In The Charley Chase
Talkies: 1929-1940, James L. Neibaur examines, film-by-film, the
comedian's seventy-nine short subjects at Roach and Columbia
studios. The first book to examine any portion of Chase's
filmography, this volume discusses the various methods Chase
employed in his earliest sound films, his variations on common
themes, his use of music, and the modification of his character as
he reached the age of forty. Neibaur also acknowledges the handful
of feature film appearances Chase made during this period. A
filmmaker whom Time magazine once declared was receiving the most
fan mail of any comedian in movies, Charley Chase remains quite
popular among classic film buffs, as well as historians and
scholars. A detailed look into the work of an artist whose career
straddled the silent and sound eras, The Charley Chase Talkies will
be appreciated by those interested in film comedy of the 1920s and
30s.
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