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A Self Made Failure

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Editor
  
Howard Bretherton

Genres
  
Silent film, Comedy

Country
  
United States

Director
  
William Beaudine

Cinematography
  
Ray June, Barney McGill

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent film (English intertitles)

Release date
  
June 29, 1924 (1924-06-29)

Writer
  
Violet Clark, John Grey, Tamar Lane (adaptation), J.K. McDonald (story), Lex Neal

Cast
  
Lloyd Hamilton, Alta Allen

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Dizzy daniels in a self made failure outtakes


A Self-Made Failure is a lost 1924 silent film feature comedy distributed by Associated First National Pictures, later First National Pictures. It was directed by William Beaudine and starred silent comic Lloyd Hamilton and then child actor Ben Alexander. At the time it was one of the longest comedy features ever made. While this film is lost, a trailer of it survives in the Library of Congress film collection.

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Cast

  • Lloyd Hamilton as Breezy, The Failure
  • Ben Alexander as Sonny
  • Matt Moore as John Steele
  • Patsy Ruth Miller as Alice Neal
  • Mary Carr as Grandma Neal
  • Sam De Grasse as Cyrus Cruikshank
  • Charles Reisner as Spike Malone (*as Chuck Reisner)
  • Victor Potel as Pokey Jones
  • Dan Mason as Dan
  • Harry Todd as The Constable
  • Alta Allen as Mrs. Spike Malone
  • Doris Duane as The Waitress
  • Priscilla Moran as Alice Neal, age 4
  • Joe McGray as Vermin
  • Cameo the Dog as himself, Cameo
  • unbilled

  • Monte Collins - ?
  • Dot Farley - ?
  • References

    A Self-Made Failure Wikipedia
    A Self Made Failure IMDb