The Great Gabbo Overview:

The Great Gabbo (1929) was a Drama - Musical Film directed by Erich von Stroheim and James Cruze and produced by James Cruze.

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Gabbo: [after being fired by manager] What do I care for your show? Would you have a show without the Great Gabbo? All right! I'll quit!
[Begins laughing hysterically]
Gabbo: Otto, he thinks he's going to have a show without Gabbo! I'M LAUGHING!


Otto: [to audience] How are you fixed for steady company?
Gabbo: Otto! How often do I have to tell you not to be so fresh?
Otto: Okay chief!
[back to audience]
Otto: How are you fixed for steady company?
Gabbo: Otto! Now that's enough or I'll put you away!


Gabbo: [Otto won't "shut up"] Otto, if you don't keep quiet I'll smash you! I'll destroy so that you won't make another sound! Do I want to listen to you? No!


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The "Gaga Bird" production number is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
The dummy Otto was a hand carved basswood Frank Marshall figure. The same man who designed Edgar Bergen's famous characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
Color sequence(s) have not survived.
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