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The Lottery Man is a comic play in three acts by Rida Johnson Young. Produced by the Shubert family, it premiered on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre on December 6, 1909, [1] and was later adapted into a film twice; once in 1916 and again in 1919.
The Lottery Man: Directed by Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton. With Thurlow Bergen, Elsie Esmond, Oliver Hardy, Allan Murnane. A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.
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- Comedy
- Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton
- 1916-06-26
Apr 27, 2017 · Feature length silent film 1916 featuring an early appearance by Oliver Hardy. A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However...
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The Lottery Man is a 1916 American silent comedy film written by Theodore Wharton and Rida Johnson Young. It was directed by Leopold Wharton and Wharton, and stars Oliver Hardy , Thurlow Bergen and Lottie Alter .
The lottery was conducted—as were the square dances, the teen-age club, the Halloween program—by Mr. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities. He was a round-faced ...
The Lottery Man: Directed by James Cruze. With Wallace Reid, Harrison Ford, Wanda Hawley, Fanny Midgley. Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
‘The Lottery’ is the best-known story of the American writer Shirley Jackson. Published in the New Yorker in 1948 and collected in The Lottery and Other Stories, the story is about a village where an annual lottery is drawn. However, the fate of the person who draws the ‘winning’ slip is only revealed at the end of the story in a dark twist.
