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Well now, shouldn't we say "accused pedophile" when referring to Gus Meins, or was he ever found guilty of any charges? I sometimes wonder if he didn't commit suicide just because the accusations would have been enough to have ended his career as a Director of childrens comedies or anythi...

So Arbuckle chose what must have seemed at the time to be a "safer" route by signing a contract with Zukor instead of going with his fellow actors. That's how it worked out for William S. Hart. Famous Players offered him a certain degree of independence, full financial backing for product...

Thanks, David. I've already tried the disc on a couple of drives already, though... I'm guessing the data either got erased somehow or the disc is damaged, but either way, it's a goner.

A reader of my blog has e-mailed me with a question that truly sounds like a case for the Silent Comedy Mafia: I'm looking for specific info on Paul Parrott, that is, was he gay? - My birth name was Beau Berrit, and an aquaintence of my mother would make fun of my name, saying "Paul Parrott Pau...

Here's a post I wrote to alt.movies.silent a decade ago. I wish I could post scans of the telegrams that I describe; I did save them, but I saved them to an ancient format called the zip disc, and for whatever reason, my zip discs aren't readable anymore. As I recall, there were four or five telegra...

Great work, Steve!

I'm guessing that occasionally one series would overlap with another, as Bunny's Honeymoon is simultaneously a Bunny comedy and a Wallie/Wally Van "Cutey" comedy.

What strikes me about the FBI files I've seen is that everything is just jumbled together: factual material, third-hand gossip and everything in between, prompting me to wonder about the reliability of the tipsters who provided much of this information to the agents who filed these various reports. ...

Who knew that May McAvoy and Harry Langdon did silent comedies together? Look at that train in the background... this still must be from The General.