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And the worst part is that I didn't even win! Foxe didn't do it for me but it was fun seeing the legendary Raymond Hitchcock (playing a down and out version of himself no less).

Rob Farr Wrote: Thank God W.C. Fields wasn't signed by MGM after the success of Copperfield (not that they wanted him). We never would have had The Bank Dick or Sucker. Thank God too that Universal didn't need to force other comedians to make Abbott & Costello movies. That was a very fortuitous...

MGM, where all great comedians went to die. Thank God W.C. Fields wasn't signed by MGM after the success of Copperfield (not that they wanted him). We never would have had The Bank Dick or Sucker.

I for one like Gassel cut. It's never going to replace the NATO we all know and love, but it is fun to see Night with all the Thalberg drained out of it.

Over on the Marx Brothers Council of Facebook page, member Bob Gassel offered up a version of Night at the Opera as if it had been produced by Paramount. It now runs 68 minutes. He did more than just lose the deadliest musical munbers (tho he did keep Alone), he cut the pauses for laughs and some of...

Here's hoping for a Slapsticon 2.0 someday soon, but I want to express thanks and a heartfelt "job well done" to everyone involved with Slapsticon 1.0 which ran from 2003-2013, especially Richard Roberts and Linda Shah who spent untold hours curating the program and dealing with myriad log...

All of Chase's late silents were reviewed by the trades. Since they were released by MGM, cutting continuities were submitted to the Library of Congress for copyright purposes. So it is possible to get a sense of what the plots were like, though without the films we can never enjoy Chase's performan...

You can find reviews on the Media History Digital Library page, here: http://mediahistoryproject.org/. Keying in "Charley Chase" using the Lantern search engine will yield every mention of Chase in a multitude of trade reviews.

Separated at birth?

Actually, the NNN "Wisconsin Mark" eventually gives up his name: Mark R. Harris Profesor de humanidades Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Sinaloa Blvd. Pedro Infante 3773 Culiacan, CP 80100, Sinaloa, Mexico But if you were to make a list of grocers or accountants who met early ends in the 1...