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Hay Fever
Also known as Snappy Sneezer in the USA
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Warren Doane
Cast: Charley Chase [Charley], Thelma Todd [Mary White], Anders Randolf [Mr. White], Eddie Dunn [Jack, the ditch digger], Baldwin Cooke [the streetcar conductor], Harry Bowen [a streetcar passenger], Sammy Brooks [a streetcar passenger], Clara Guiol [the giggling woman at the station], Charlie Hall [a streetcar passenger], Sam Lufkin [the car delivery man], Buddy McNeal [the newspaper boy], Hayes E. Robertson [the train conductor]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / From a screen story by Leo McCarey. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 29 July 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. The film’s title was later changed to Snappy Sneezer. / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists [with the Vitaphone soundtrack discs].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Allergies: Hay fever - Sneezes - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 31 January 2025.
References: Edmonds-Todd p. 269; Maltin-Selected p. 62 : Vitaphone-1-4 : Website-IMDb.
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