Is Zat So? Explained

Is Zat So?
Director:	Alfred E. Green
Producer:	William Fox
Based On:	^[1]
Starring:	George O'Brien Edmund Lowe Katherine Perry Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Cinematography:	George Schneiderman
Studio:	Fox Film Corporation
Distributor:	Fox Film Corporation
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Is Zat So? is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.^{[2] [3] [4]}

The film was based on a 1925 play of the same name by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan, which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre^{[5] [6]} The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong.

Cast

• George O'Brien as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
• Edmund Lowe as Hap Hurley
• Katherine Perry as Marie Mestretti
• Cyril Chadwick as Robert Parker
• Doris Lloyd as Sue Parker
• Diane Ellis as Florence Hanley
• Richard Maitland as Major Fitz Stanley
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as G. Clifton Blackburn
• Philippe De Lacy as Little Jimmy Parker
• Jack Herrick as Gas House Duffy

Preservation

With no prints of Is Zat So? located in any film archives,^[7] it is a lost film.^[8]

See also

• 1937 Fox vault fire

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Notes and References

1. https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/is-zat-so-4774 Is Zat So? on Broadway January 1925-July 1926, IBDb.com
2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/I/IsZatSo1927.html Progressive Silent Film List: Is Zat So?
3. https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9964?sid=03688b30-48c2-4156-a67e-944f9545a5b4&sr=4.5701795&cp=1&pos=0 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Is Zat So?
4. Daniel Blum (1953), Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, p. 305
5. https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=16534 Is Zat So? - NitrateVille Vintage Film website
6. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak, Is Zat So? (1925) - The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press (2004) e
7. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6524/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Is Zat So?
8. https://web.archive.org/web/20141225003106/http://www.thegreatstars.com/lost_film_wanted.htm Is Zat So? at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted