Hold Your Breath (1924 film)
{{short description|American silent comedy film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Hold Your Breath
| image = Hold Your Breath (1924).webm
| caption =
| director = Scott Sidney
| producer = Al Christie
| writer = Frank Roland Conklin
| narrator =
| starring = Dorothy Devore
Walter Hiers
Tully Marshall
| music =
| cinematography = Gus Peterson
Alex Phillips
| editing =
| studio = Christie Film Company
| distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1924|05|25}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
File:Hold your Breath Gives Thrills.jpg (1924).]]
Hold Your Breath is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Dorothy Devore, Walter Hiers, and Tully Marshall.Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema p. 103[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HoldYourBreath1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Hold Your Breath] at silentera.com
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Dorothy Devore as Mabel
- Walter Hiers as Freddie
- Tully Marshall as Blake
- Jimmie Adams as Beauty Parlor Proprietor
- Priscilla Bonner as Mary
- James Harrison as Jack
- Lincoln Plumer as City Editor
- Patricia Palmer as Hairdresser
- Rosa Gore as Customer
- Jay Belasco as Customer
- George C. Pearce as Mayor
- Victor Rodman as Oil Salesman
- Budd Fine as Policeman
- Eddie Baker as Detective
- Max Davidson as Street Merchant
}}
Preservation
Copies of Hold Your Breath are maintained in the collections of the Library of Congress, UCLA Film and Television Archive, George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection, and other film archives.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1466/ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Hold Your Breath]
References
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Bibliography
- Donald W. McCaffrey and Christopher P. Jacobs. Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing, 1999. {{ISBN|0-313-30345-2}}
External links
{{commons category|Hold Your Breath}}
- {{IMDb title|0014996}}
- [http://www.silentsaregolden.com/featurefolder3/hycommentary.html Commentary and stills] at silentsaregolden.com
{{Scott Sidney}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Films about journalists
Category:Films directed by Scott Sidney
Category:Producers Distributing Corporation films
Category:Silent American comedy films
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