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Spite Marriage
Spite Marriage
6.9
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116 Ratings

SPITE MARRIAGE

Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
United States, 1929
Comedy, Silent

Synopsis

Buster Keaton plays a pants-presser who pines for aloof stage actress Dorothy Sebastian. When she is jilted by her fiance Edward Earle, Sebastian spitefully marries Keaton. He is ecstatic (or as ecstatic as the poker-faced comedian ever gets) until he finds out why Sebastian has said “I do.”

Synopsis

Buster Keaton plays a pants-presser who pines for aloof stage actress Dorothy Sebastian. When she is jilted by her fiance Edward Earle, Sebastian spitefully marries Keaton. He is ecstatic (or as ecstatic as the poker-faced comedian ever gets) until he finds out why Sebastian has said “I do.”