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TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP

Harry Langdon in TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP

Anything But Silent: Silent Classics with Live Musical Accompaniment by Ben Model who composes his own scores and performs in a
style that evokes the silent era and reflects a contemporary audienceâs appreciation of music â www.benmodel.com
Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 7:30pm

Members $9 / Public $12 (No Refunds)

When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to
make features for First National, he wisely brought along the two Sennett
staffers who helped make him a star: gag writer Frank Capra and director Harry
Edwards. Langdon's first feature-length comedy at his new studio was Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp, which not only ranks as one of Harry's best efforts, but also one
of the funniest comedies ever made. Our hero plays a bumbling cobbler's son
who enters a cross-country walking race sponsored by shoe manufacturer John
Burton. This he does partly to save his dad's business, but mainly out of love for
Burton's daughter Betty (Joan Crawford), whom Harry knows only from her
appearances on billboards. As our hero tramp, tramp, tramps along, one mishap
after another befalls him. At one point he is arrested and placed on a chain gang.
Leading lady Joan Crawford was so amused by Langdon's antics that she couldn't
film her big scene with him without collapsing into laughter; as a result, the scene
had to be shot with her back to the camera). An amusing coda featuring a "baby"
Langdon in his bassinette caps this well-nigh-perfect film. USA, 1926, 62 min., b/w