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Baseball Madness
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Billy Mason

Cast: Billy Mason [Baseball Bill], Gloria Swanson, Orin C. Jackson, Marc Fenton, Countess Mary Du Cello, Victor Potel

Victor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Billy Mason, from a screen story by Al Russell. / © 21 April 1917 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP10614]. Released 8 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A film in the ‘Baseball Bill’ series. Swanson’s first and only film for Universal; produced while she was working at Keystone.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Sports: Baseball

Listing updated: 1 September 2009.

References: Edelman-Baseball p. 19; Hudson-Swanson p. 112; LoC-MoPic-2 p. 47; Quirk-Swanson pp. 59-60 : Website-IMDb.