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The Diplomats (film)

1929 film by Norman Taurog

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7730240 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Diplomats is a lost 1929 talking film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Norman Taurog and starred the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough.

Cast

Bobby Clark as Bobby

Paul McCullough as Paul

Marguerite Churchill as The Princess

Cissy Fitzgerald as The Countess

John St.

Editorial summary

“The Diplomats (film)” enters the record as 1929 film by Norman Taurog. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Diplomats, film and Norman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Diplomats, film and Norman.
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Why this record matters

“The Diplomats (film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Diplomats, film and Norman provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7730240. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Diplomats (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.