Swing Your Partners
| Swing Your Partners | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alfred J. Goulding |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd |
Production company | Rolin Films |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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Running time | 1 reel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Swing Your Partners is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in two collections.[1]
Plot
[edit]Harold and Snub are two vagrants who are mistaken for visiting dance experts by the proprietor of Professor Tanglefoot's Dance Academy because of their startling resemblance to them. Harold teaches a class of female pupils a few interesting and lively dance steps before the real pair of experts arrive.
Cast
[edit]- Harold Lloyd
- Snub Pollard
- Bebe Daniels
- William Blaisdell
- Sammy Brooks
- Lige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley)
- William Gillespie
- Bud Jamison
Reception
[edit]Like many American films of the time, Swing Your Partners was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of two near views of Lloyd on a piano stool facing the camera.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Swing Your Partners at silentera.com
- ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (17). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 43. October 19, 1918.
External links
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