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Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled some audiences and critics but became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival.
Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Lew Landers and starring Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White and Eduardo Ciannelli. It is the sixth film based on the popular 1913 play of the same name.
Seven Keys to Baldpate: Directed by Lew Landers. With Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay. A mystery writer gets caught up in a real mystery when he accepts a bet to write a book at Baldpate, a remote inn.
Seven Keys to Baldpate: Directed by Hugh Ford. With George M. Cohan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Corene Uzzell. A writer bets a friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours.
Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers. A bestseller, it was adapted by George M. Cohan into a play, which in turn was adapted several times for film, radio and TV. The plot of the novel differs from the play in many respects. The setting was based on the real Baldpate Mountain.
When mystery writer Kenneth Magee disembarks at the Asquewan Junction train station during a driving blizzard, attractive Mary Jordan warns him not to go to Baldpate Inn, where he is planning to write his latest book.
Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers' 1913 mystery novel Seven Keys to Baldpate effectively jump-started the Old Dark House subgenre of horror comedies, thanks in no small part to theatrical impresario George M. Cohan, who adapted the novel for Broadway later that year.
Seven Keys to Baldpate: Directed by Reginald Barker. With Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield. A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn.
First reporter Mary Norton, with whom Magee is in love, shows up, followed by a crooked mayor, a gangster carrying a $200,000 bribe, a local hermit and the police. Although the police chief tries to steal the money and flee to Canada, the hermit throws the cash into the fire.
Dec 30, 2020 · Seven Keys to Baldpate. information about this edition. related portals: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller. A popular novel in 1913, and George M. Cohan quickly adapted the novel as a hit Broadway stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version, one of seven film versions of the play, and a 1935 revival.
