Edward F. Cline’s My Little Chickadee | 1940

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Edward F. Cline’s My Little Chickadee | 1940

Starring: Mae West, W.C. Fields and Joseph Calleia
Directed by: Edward F. Cline
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Edward Francis Cline (November 4, 1891–May 22, 1961) was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood. Eddie Cline began working for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1914. At one time he claimed credit for having come up with the idea for the Sennett Bathing Beauties. When Buster Keaton began making his own shorts, after having worked with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for years, he hired Cline as his co-director. In Keaton's short films Cline and Keaton himself were the only two regular gag men. For Keaton's 1921 short, Hard Luck, Cline is credited with originating Keaton's personal favorite gag from his films. At the end of the film, Keaton dives into a swimming pool which has been emptied of water. Years later he emerges from the hole which his fall created, accompanied by a Chinese wife and two small Chinese-American children. Besides working on most of Keaton's early shorts, Cline co-directed Keaton's first feature, Three Ages ...

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