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A Self-Made Failure is a american film directed by William Beaudine with Lloyd Hamilton
A Self-Made Failure (1924)
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OriginUSA
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.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:A Self-Made Failure
^ A Self-Made Failure at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978 (for trailer)]
Actors
Lloyd Hamilton
(Breezy, The Failure)
Ben Alexander
(Sonny)
Patsy Ruth Miller
(Alice Neal)
Mary Carr
(Grandma Neal)
Sam De Grasse
(Cyrus Cruikshank)
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