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Not that I have seen. He is sitting with Arbuckle in one shot, chatting with him in another, standing (with hands in pockets) just right of Arbuckle during the shooting of a scene, and so forth. He is always near, but never seen doing anything beyond talking or observing. Frances Marion was the wri...

David, I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the book. But I did want to say, regarding Chaplin's coverage in the biography section (which I also stated in the introduction to that chapter) the reason I had shorter bios for well-documented people like Chaplin, Fields and Crosby, was due to the fact they...

[ Roscoe Arbuckle was understandably not very fond of becoming famous under that professional name, nor--I'm sure--were Frank "Fatty" Alexander, Hilliard" Fat" Karr, and others, nor was Willie Best likely fond of being billed as "Sleep N Eat." Brent Speaking of Willie ...

I don't use the F-word in my book, though I do use the N-word once, in printing the un-pc working title of one of the blackface Keystones. Brent I think regarding Roscoe Arbuckle, the "F-word" is "Fatty" (as opposed to calling him Roscoe). That is probably what David means. I al...

Agnes, I will definitely be bringing copies to Slapsticon.

David, thanks, though I'm not sure what you mean about Charlie. And I don't use the F-word in my book, though I do use the N-word once, in printing the un-pc working title of one of the blackface Keystones.

Brent

Great stuff Rob! Sounds like we'll all have to look into this Elmer Redmond fellow. And I'm glad you jumped on the aljoyfanclub domain in blogspot, before somebody hijacked it and tried to charge you $20,000 to get it. I will add a link to the new site from my blog, once I finally get around to addi...

I wonder who she is supposed to be in FALSE IMPRESSIONS? It says she "joined Sennett stalwarts Dorothy Granger and Marjorie Beebe" in it, but they are the two female leads and there aren't any other female roles on that level. And most of the others are accounted for in my book, unless she...

Thanks Joe...your ongoing listings from Camera (which date way back to Rob's old pre-Slapsticon site). To me, it's one of the main reasons the internet exists! I enjoy hearing all of the listings, not just comedy--and particularly all the "fly by night" companies doing work that didn't oft...

Hi Tommie and thanks for posting (or linking) to a Larry Semon film I've never seen until now. Just wanted to say Kathryn McGuire is not in this film, nor is Spencer Bell. That Black comic is probably "Snowball" Curtis McHenry, not Spencer Bell who worked in Sennetts (Ten Dollars or Ten D...

I just posted a little blurb on my Mack Sennett blog elaborating a previous undocumented Harold Lloyd Keystone Triangle appearance in HER PAINTED HERO (which is included in the filmography for "Mack Sennett's Fun Factory"), with the addition of some screen captures: http://macksennett.blog...