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The Musical Marvel

The Musical Marvel

1917Short⏱️ 11m
ComedyShort
4.6
IMDB Rating
57 votes

The piano player falls in love with the wife of the bad man. The bad man meets the piano player and tells him that his wife is in the east; and so they decide to go and find her, the pianist not realizing who the girl is. Later Be...

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Ben Turpin, Gypsy Abbott, Edward J. Laurie
Release Date
February 11, 1917
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Ben Turpin
Ben Turpin
as The Piano Player
Gypsy Abbott
Gypsy Abbott
as His Wife
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Edward J. Laurie
as The Western Bad Man
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Arthur Moon

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Vogue Motion Picture Company

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

Ben Turpin at a Distance
by boblipton2018-09-16
6/10

"Ben Turpin is the piano player -- actually a one-man band in a saloon. In comes Edward Laurie, twenty-guns a-blazing, to tell him of how he loved his wife and she left him to go on stage with a tempter. When her company stops at the saloon and Ben falls in love at first sight, both men leave in pursuit of Gypsy Abbot. Sources claim this is the best comedy that Turpin did for Vogue Comedies, where he spent some time between leaving Essanay and Mack Sennett getting through the Vogue switchboard to speak to him. Turpin's handling of the one-man band at the beginning is indeed quite funny, b..."

📖 Synopsis

The piano player falls in love with the wife of the bad man. The bad man meets the piano player and tells him that his wife is in the east; and so they decide to go and find her, the pianist not realizing who the girl is. Later Be...