On March 11, 1925, comedian Buster Keaton played the character of a financial broker on the verge of bankruptcy in the “Seven Chances” film, which used Beale’s Cut in the Santa Clarita Valley for certain scenes. Jimmie Shannon, the soon-to-be-bankrupt financial broker portrayed by Keaton, was presented with a will by his grandfather’s attorney in which Shannon is to inherit ...

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