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Ben Turpin, Ford Sterling and Heinie Conklin (all standing, behind table).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Also known as [The Kaiser’s Last Squeal]
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Richard Jones (F. Richard Jones)
Cast: Bothwell Browne [Captain Bob White], Ford Sterling [Kaiser Wilhelm II], Mal St. Clair (Malcolm St. Clair) [Crown Prince of Germany], Bert Roach [Field Marshall von Hindenburg], Ben Turpin [a guardsman], Charles Murray [an Irish soldier], Marie Prevost [a Belgian girl], Eva Thatcher [kaiserin], Baldy Belmont [Grand Admiral von Tirpitz], Chester Conklin [Death’s Head Hussars officer], Charles Lynn (Heinie Conklin), Phyllis Haver, Juanita Hansen, Harriet Hammond
Mack Sennett Comedies production; distributed on State Rights basis by Sol Lesser. / From a screen story by Mack Sennett. Production supervised by Mack Sennett. Cinematography by Fred Jackman and J.R. Lockwood. / World premiere, 2 March 1919 in San Francisco, California. Premiered 29 June 1919 in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Hiram Abrams was the film’s original State Rights distributor before the film’s release. Lesser bought the rights to the film in March 1919 and marketed the film on the State Rights market. The film was later edited to two reels for rerelease (probably as The Kaiser’s Last Squeal).
Comedy: World War I.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.5148.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Americans (Abroad) - Dancers - Germany - Jealousy - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918)
Listing updated: 12 April 2015.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.5148; Louvish-Keystone p. 324; Spehr-American p. 598.
Home video: DVD.
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