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Roscoe Arbuckle (left) and Buster Keaton.
Photo: courtesy Kino International.

The Bellboy
AKA {The Bell Boy)
(1918) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [bell boy], Buster Keaton [bell boy], Al St. John [desk clerk], Alice Lake [manicurist], Joe Keaton (Joseph Keaton) [hotel guest], Charles Dudley

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Roscoe Arbuckle. Scenario editor Herbert Warren. Cinematography by George Peters. / © 7 March 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP12194]. Released 18 March 1918. Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy number A-3109. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot at the Balboa Amusement Producing Company studios in Long Beach, California.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Listing updated: 26 July 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Baer-Film p. 21; Bardèche-History p. 116; Dardis-Keaton pp. 51, 287; Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 263; Kerr-Silent p. 126.

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