Tramp, tramp, tramp

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Movie
Original title Tramp, tramp, tramp
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1926
length 62 minutes
Rod
Director Harry Edwards
script Frank Capra ,
Tim Whelan
Arthur Ripley
production Harry Langdon Production distributed by First National
camera Elgin Lessley ,
George Spear
occupation

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is a 1926 American comedy film starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford directed by Harry Edwards. Frank Capra acted as a gag writer. It was Langdon's first full-length feature film after leaving Mack Sennett and moving to First National with his own production company, Harry Langdon Corporation .

action

Harry Logan is the naive son of an old shoemaker. When the father threatens to lose the workshop, Harry decides to go out into the world to find the money for the outstanding rent. He accidentally ends up in a walking competition hosted by the shoe magnate John Burton. With the help of Betty, the shoe magnate's daughter, Harry can also take part in the competition in which whoever moves fastest from the east to the west coast of the United States wins $ 25,000. Harry is one of two participants who survive the long hike and has hair-raising adventures in the process. So he ends up as a prisoner in a quarry and barely survives a tornado in which Harry not only saves a competitor Nick Kargas, but also Betty. In the end, Harry wins both the competition and Betty's heart.

background

Joan Crawford had been with MGM since 1925 and quickly rose to become a popular actress. Especially the appearance in Sally, Irene and Mary helped her breakthrough and a permanent studio engagement. It was towards the end of the year First National as part of a loan out on loan to a leading lady next comedy star Harry Langdon in his first full-length feature film Tramp, Tramp, Tramp occur. Crawford had little more to do in the course of events than to look good. The actress is initially only introduced indirectly into the plot. Harry sees her first on the Burton shoe boxes and later as an advertising character on billboards and in the cinema. Only towards the middle of the story does he meet Betty Burton in person. The film was reasonably successful at the box office and brought Crawford enough publicity to be named one of the WAMPAS Baby Star in mid-1926 and soon to be featured on the covers of important film magazines and journals. For Joan Crawford only the fact that she got some tricks and tips for her make-up from the responsible crew at First National during the filming, which she thankfully took to MGM and implemented there.

The actress was well aware of the minor importance of her role, as she confessed to Roy Newquist a few decades later:

"I didn't play second violin, not third violin, but rather fifth violin after Langdon's gags."

Reviews

The critics were quite taken with the film and with Joan Crawford.

Sisk wrote in Variety:

“Harry Langdon's first full-length comedy. Langdon is doing an impressive job. [...] Joan Crawford is on loan from Metro to be a lovely leading lady who, however, has little to do. "

literature

  • Roy Newquist (Ed.): Conversations with Joan Crawford . Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ 1980, ISBN 0-8065-0720-9 .
  • Lawrence J. Quirk : The Complete Films of Joan Crawford . Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ 1988, ISBN 0-8065-1078-1 .
  • Lawrence J. Quirk, William Schoell: Joan Crawford. The Essential Biography . University Press, Lexington, KY. 2002, ISBN 0-8131-2254-6 .
  • Alexander Walker: Joan Crawford. The Ultimate Star . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78216-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I felt, I was not playing second fiddle, not third fidlle, but more like fifth fiddle to Landon's comic antics.
  2. ^ Harry Langdon's first feature-length comedy. Langdon does some remarkable work. [...] Joan Crawford is borrowed from Metro to be a nice leading lady with little to do.