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Line 1: '''''The House That Shadows Built''''' ([[1931 in film|1931]]) is a short [[feature film]], roughly 55 minutes long, from [[Paramount Pictures]], made to celebrate the 20th [[anniversary]] of the studio's founding in 1912. The film was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release. The film includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which ==Marx Brothers segment== The film is most notable for a six-minute segment starring the [[Marx Brothers]]—with [[Ben Taggart]] playing Mr. Lee, Theatrical Producer—intended to promote their forthcoming film ''[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]''. The segment, containing material which was never included in any other Marx Brothers film, is a re-working of the first scene of their first successful [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] play ''[[I'll Say She Is]]''—which Groucho considered to have been the funniest work in the Brothers' career. Except for a few name changes and additional gags, the scene is almost completely the same as the script used for the stage production. Some of the gags were worked into the lobby scene in ''[[The Cocoanuts]]'' (1929), and a bit involving a series of [[Maurice Chevalier]] imitations was incorporated into the script of ''[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]'' (1931). The Marx Brothers' segment is currently available as a special feature on the [[DVD|direct-to-DVD]] [[documentary film]] ''Inside the Marx Brothers'', albeit in poor condition. Recently, Marx Brothers fans have begun referring to their segment simply as ''I'll Say She Is'', in light of its source material. ==Promotional scenes from silent Paramount films== The film also contains some of the only surviving reels of the much sought after [[Lon Chaney Sr.]] film ''[[The Miracle Man (1919 film)|The Miracle Man]]''. The film was released in 1919, but lost over time. The scene present in the film shows Lon Chaney acting as a [[contortionist]]. ▼ *Sarah Bernhardt in ''Queen Elizabeth'' (1912) produced in France *J. K. Hackett, playing a dual role in ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1913) *Dustin Farnum in ''The Squaw Man'' (1914) *Mary Pickford in ''A Good Little Devil'' (1914) *Geraldine Farrar in ''Carmen'' (1915) *Robert Edeson and Theodore Roberts in ''The Call of the North'' (1914) *Blanche Sweet in ''The Captive'' (1915) *Vivian Martin and Jack Holt in ''Giving Becky a Chance'' (1917) *Olga Petrova and Mahlon Hamilton in ''The Undying Flame'' (1917) *Jack Pickford and Robert Gordon in ''Huck and Tom'' (1918) *Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward, and Jack Dean in ''The Cheat'' (1915) *Marie Doro in ''The Heart of Nora Flynn'' (1916) *Elliott Dexter, Kathlyn Williams, and Raymond Hatton in ''The Whispering Chorus'' (1918) *Dorothy Gish in ''Battling Jane'' (1918) *Douglas Fairbanks in ''Headin' South'' (1918) *Mary Pickford in ''The Little American'' (1917) *Elliott Dexter in ''The Squaw Man'' (1918) *Gloria Swanson and Elliott Dexter in ''For Better, for Worse'' (1919) *John Barrymore in ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1920) *Charles Ray in ''Homer Comes Home'' (1920) *Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Thomas Meighan and J. M. Dumont in ''The Miracle Man'' (1919) *Lillian Gish in''True Heart Susie'' (1919) *Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan in ''Male and Female'' (1919) *Betty Compson in ''The Little Minister'' (1921) *Wallace Reid and Theodore Roberts in ''The Roaring Road'' (1919) *Mae Murray in ''On With the Dance'' (1920) *Gareth Hughes and May McAvoy in ''Sentimental Tommy'' (1921) *Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres in ''The Sheik'' (1921) *Conrad Nagel, Bebe Daniels, William Boyd, and Wallace Reid in ''Nice People'' (1922) *''The Covered Wagon'' (1923) *Betty Bronson and Mary Brian in Peter Pan (1924) *William S. Hart and Kathleen O'Connor in'' Wild Bill Hickok'' (1923) *Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor in ''The Grand Duchess and the Waiter'' (1926) *Noah Beery, Billie Dove, and Jack Holt in ''The Light of Western Stars'' (1925) *''The Ten Commandments'' (1923) *Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in ''Behind the Front'' (1926) *Pola Negri and Rod La Rocque in ''Forbidden Paradise'' (1924) *Richard Dix in ''The Vanishing American'' (1925) *Clara Bow in It (1927) *Harold Lloyd and Constantine Romanoff in ''The Kid Brother'' (1927) *Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti in ''Variety'' (1925) produced in Germany *Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes and Noah Beery in ''Beau Geste'' (1926) *George Bancroft in ''Underworld'' (1927) *Gary Cooper, Charles Rogers, and Richard Arlen in ''Wings'' (1927) George M. Cohan, George Beban, Elsie Ferguson, Dorothy Dalton, Marguerite Clark, Billie Burke, Ethel Clayton, Lila Lee, Pauline Frederick, Bryant Washburn and Irene Castle also appear in unidentified films. ▲The ==Then-current Paramount stars== The film moves on to show segments with Paramount players of the 1931-32 season, including Harold Lloyd, George Bancroft, Nancy Carroll, the Four Marx Brothers, Charles Rogers, Clive Brook, Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Eleanor Boardman, Frances Dee, Jackie Searl, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, Regis Toomey, Peggy Shannon, Jackie Coogan, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette, Anna May Wong, Juliette Compton, Stuart Erwin, William Boyd, Miriam Hopkins, Wynne Gibson, Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Robert Coogan, Carmen Barnes, Charlie Ruggles, Skeets Gallagher, Mitzi Green, Richard Arlen, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Paul Lukas, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Ruth Chatterton, Marlene Dietrich, and Maurice Chevalier. ==External links== | |||
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