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Is Zat So?

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Is Zat So?
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Directed byAlfred E. Green
Written byPhilip Klein
Based onIs Zat So?
by James Gleason and Richard Taber[1]
Produced byWilliam Fox
StarringGeorge O'Brien
Edmund Lowe
Katherine Perry
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
CinematographyGeorge Schneiderman
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • May 15, 1927 (1927-05-15)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Is Zat So? is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.[2][3][4]

The film was based on a 1925 play of the same name by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan, which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre[5][6] The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong.

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Cast

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Preservation

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With no prints of Is Zat So? located in any film archives,[7] it is a lost film.[8]

See also

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UrZ4gpn8M

References

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  1. ^ Is Zat So? on Broadway January 1925-July 1926, IBDb.com
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Is Zat So? at silentera.com
  3. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Is Zat So?
  4. ^ Daniel Blum (1953), Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, p. 305
  5. ^ Is Zat So? - NitrateVille Vintage Film website
  6. ^ Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak, Is Zat So? (1925) - The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press (2004) eISBN 9780199916474
  7. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Is Zat So?
  8. ^ Is Zat So? at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted (Wayback Machine)
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