The Bees' Buzz

Name: The Bees' Buzz
Director: Mack Sennett
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1929
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Harry Gribbon, Andy Clyde, Barbara Leonard, Tyler Brooke, Vernon Dent

1929 Comedy 21 minutes Directed by Mack Sennett

About The Bees' Buzz

Homer Ashcraft (Harry Gribbon) and Peggy's father (Andy Clyde) set out to stop Peggy (Barbara Leonard) marrying her suitor (Tyler Brooke). The meddling lands both men in trouble. Vernon Dent plays Jim, and Ruth Kane plays a party guest.

Cast & crew

More about The Bees' Buzz

Mack Sennett directed and produced. Hampton Del Ruth, Harry McCoy, Earle Rodney, and John A. Waldron wrote it. Educational Pictures released it on 7 April 1929. William Hornbeck edited. Ruth Kane plays a party guest, and Billy Gilbert is in the cast.

Themes

A father set against a wedding
A friend dragged into the plan
Trouble that follows the interference
wedding
Peggy
Homer Ashcraft
Andy Clyde
Harry Gribbon
Sennett

Background

Educational Pictures released it on 7 April 1929.

Making

Sennett directed and produced this 21-minute comedy with Clyde, Gribbon, Dent, and Brooke.

Look

John W. Boyle and Ernie Crockett photographed the short.

Preservation

A print is on the Internet Archive.

Notes

Educational Pictures, not a major studio, distributed this Sennett short.
John W. Boyle and Ernie Crockett share the cinematography credit.
William Hornbeck, later a feature editor including on Why We Fight, cut it.
Harry Gribbon's character is Homer Ashcraft. Andy Clyde plays the father, not a character named Andy.
A print is on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.