''Ginsberg the Great'' is a
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1927 silent film starring
George Jessel in the period in which he made films with
Warner Bros.
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The film had a
Vitaphone
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synchronized music score and sound effects.
The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:''Ginsberg the Great''
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Plot
Johnny Ginsberg, a tailor's apprentice who aspires to be a famous magician, joins a carnival troupe that stops in the town and doubles for sideshow attractions. The troupers, actually a gang of thieves, direct their chimpanzee to pick the pockets of Sam Hubert, a theatrical magnate who is in the audience, but Johnny recovers the wallet. Sappho, an Oriental dancer, learning that Hubert has purchased the Russian crown jewels, vamps Johnny into taking her to his home; and with the aid of the gang, she steals the jewels. Overhearing the gang quarreling over the spoils, Johnny tries to make a getaway with the gems, knocking out each member of the gang separately and affixing to each of them a tag signed "Ginsberg the Great." Hawkins, a newspaperman, publicizes the event, and Johnny consequently receives a reward and a contract from Hubert.
Cast
* George Jessel as Johnny Ginsberg
*Audrey Ferris
Audrey Minerva Ferris (born Audrey Minerva Kellar; August 30, 1909 – May 3, 1990) was an American film actress of the silent film era of the late 1920s and into the early 1930s, a singer, and a dancer.
Biography
Born Audrey Minerva Kellar in ...
as Mary
*Gertrude Astor
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Early years
Gertrude Irene Eyster was born in Lake ...
as Sappho
*Douglas Gerrard
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as Sam Hubert
*Jack Santoro as Hawkins
*Theodore Lorch
Theodore "Ted" Lorch (September 29, 1873 – November 12, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1908 and 1947.
Biography
Born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1873, Lorch appeared in several Three Stooges ...
as Charles Wheeler
*Jimmie Quinn as Crook
* Stanley J. Sandford as Hercules
*Akka as a chimpanzee
See also
*Gertrude Astor filmography This entry is more or less the complete filmography of actress Gertrude Astor.
1915-1916
*''Under Two Flags'' (1915, Short) as Venetia
*''The Shadows of Suspicion'' (1916, Short) as May Latham
*''The Janitor's Vacation'' (1916)
1917
*''Bombs and ...
* List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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References
External links
Surviving Vitaphone soundtrack disk reel 7
at SoundCloud
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1927 films
American silent feature films
Lost American comedy films
1927 comedy films
Silent American comedy films
Films directed by Byron Haskin
American black-and-white films
Transitional sound comedy films
Early sound films
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1920s American films
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