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Excellent work, Andrew. Here's a modest piece I wrote for my website about a year ago:
http://www.philposner.com/gene_marsh.htm

Alright! A great assortment. Can't wait!

Although Lahue's books weren't the first books I read on silent film (Daniel Blum's book "The Pictorial History of the Silent Screen" was the first one that grabbed me), his books were and are invaluable in my work on the Chaplin Keystones. I was lucky enough to find a used copy of his &qu...

I have absolutely nothing to add to everyone's detective work here but is that Peggy Pearce (or any of her various monickers) as the gal Chester Conklin flirts with at the opening of BETWEEN SHOWERS (14)? No, it's not Pearce. David Robinson (from Mitry) credits Sadie Lampe as Conklin's girlfriend i...

Thanks Richard. Have a look at the complete article that used to be on my website. There are more pictures of the actress and another version of the above Carruthers picture. Let me know if this changes anything. http://www.philposner.com/xhelenc.htm

The actress who plays the pretty patient in Laughing Gas, for instance, in addition to sixteen or so others. Through the years she was mis-identified as Norma Nichols, Gene Marsh, Minta Durfee and even Rhea Mitchell. A few years ago David Kiehn and Brent Walker found a newspaper article about an act...

Are any of the CK (Kriterion) comedies still extant? Some feature comedienne Peggy Paige, who has been posited as Chaplin's Keystone co-star in many of his films there. Specifically these films: When You and I Were Young (1915) The Unloaded 45 (1915) Oh, Those Kids (1915) Capturing Stella (1915) His...

Kate Guyonvarch of the Chaplin estate got back to me with a news clipping that captions the photo as CC with Tom Davies, Manager of Western Imports, who handled the distribution of CC films in Britain.

Ian Elliot wrote:I think this is Henry Russell Wakefield, Bishop of Birmingham. There's another shot from his visit with Chaplin & Co. here.

Thanks Ian, that looks extremely close.