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Spite marriage

Buster plays a tailor's assistant who develops a passion for a young actress. He lands a job as an extra in a play in which his idol is appearing and predictably wrecks the performance. But to his amazement he finds himself married to the actress who is intent on spiting the young actor to whom she had been engaged. The actress's former fiance, her manager and her servants try to get rid of him. Includes the famous scene where a drunk Buster struggles to put his equally drunk bride to bed.

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http://schema.org/description

  • "A hapless pants presser marries a lovely stage actress and then discovers she said "I do" to spite the leading man who jilted her."
  • ""A jilted actress pops the question to hapless admirer Keaton.""
  • ""Elmer, a pants-presser, falls in love with Trilby Drew, the star of a legitimate show, and attends every performance. Trilby is then jilted by her leading man, Lionel Denmore, and marries Elmer out of spite. She becomes intoxicated on their wedding night, and Elmer, realizing the reason for the marriage, leaves her and finds work as a sailor on a rumrunner's boat. Elmer later transfers at sea to a yacht on which Trilby is a passenger and proves his love and courage during a series of disasters. Trilby at last comes to realize her love for Elmer"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."
  • "In his final silent film Buster Keaton plays a pants presser who marries a beautiful stage actress only to discover that she has married him out of spite to her leading man who jilted her. Comedy ensues when Keaton tries to win her love."
  • "Buster plays a tailor's assistant who develops a passion for a young actress. He lands a job as an extra in a play in which his idol is appearing and predictably wrecks the performance. But to his amazement he finds himself married to the actress who is intent on spiting the young actor to whom she had been engaged. The actress's former fiance, her manager and her servants try to get rid of him. Includes the famous scene where a drunk Buster struggles to put his equally drunk bride to bed."@en
  • "A pants presser marries a stage actress, then discovers she said "I do" to spite the leading man who jilted her."

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Drama"
  • "fiction"
  • "Slapstick comedies"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Silent films"
  • "Clown comedies"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Features"
  • "Comedy films"

http://schema.org/name

  • "Spite marriage"
  • "Spite marriage"@en
  • "Trotzheirat Spite marriage"