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Buy Tickets for Silent Clowns Film Series: Forgotten Clowns

  • Sun Nov 30, 2025
  • 2:30pm
  • In-Person Ticket
  • Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 250 95th Street
  • $9 - $12

Symphony Space / Film

Silent Clowns Film Series: Forgotten Clowns

A scene from the film Bell Boy 13 featuring Douglas MacLean and Margaret Loomis.
Offer: Donations

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Description

The demand for comedy was so immense during the silent film era that the list of performers who were slapstick regulars is mind-boggling. This program is a salute to some very funny comics who have gotten lost in the shuffle due to the passage of time, and the scarcity of their surviving movies. Headlining as our overlooked trio are comedienne Louise Fazenda in her 1924 short Dizzy Daisy, Douglas MacLean in the feature Bell Boy 13 (1923), and the irascible Max Davidson’s two-reel classic Pass the Gravy (1928).

Theatre

Leonard Nimoy Thalia

Expected Run Time is 150 minutes

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