The House That Shadows Built
1931-07-08
7
47 min
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Groucho Marx | Caesar's Ghost | Unowned |
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Harpo Marx | The Merchant of Wieners | Unowned |
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Chico Marx | Tomalio | Unowned |
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Zeppo Marx | Sammy Brown | Unowned |
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Ben Taggart | Mr. Lee, Theatrical Agent | Unowned |
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Charles Ray | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sarah Bernhardt | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lon Chaney | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Miriam Hopkins | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sylvia Sidney | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Gloria Swanson | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Clara Bow | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ruth Chatterton | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Maurice Chevalier | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Claudette Colbert | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Betty Compson | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Robert Coogan | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Douglas Fairbanks | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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William S. Hart | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Phillips Holmes | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Harold Lloyd | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Herbert Marshall | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Mary Pickford | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Wallace Reid | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Charles Ruggles | (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lilyan Tashman | (archive footage) | Unowned |