Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage
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Directed byEdward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton
Written byRobert Hopkins (titles)
Story byLew Lipton
Ernest Pagano (adaptation)
Produced byJoseph M. Schenck Productions
StarringBuster Keaton
Dorothy Sebastian
CinematographyReggie Lanning
Edited byFrank Sullivan
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • March 25, 1929 (1929-03-25)
(premiere in New York City)
Running time
76 minutes (8 reels)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Spite Marriage is a 1929 American silent comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick and starring Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian. It is the second film Keaton made for MGM and his last silent film, although he had wanted it to be a "talkie" or full sound film. While the production has no recorded dialogue, it does feature an accompanying synchronized score and recorded laughter, applause, and other sound effects. Keaton later wrote gags for some up-and-coming MGM stars like Red Skelton, and recycled many gags from Spite Marriage, some shot-for-shot, for Skelton's 1943 film I Dood It.