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Have any of you even heard of a woman? You're the one who was making leering desperate comments at Sara Ackerman. We've all got lovely spouses and significant others. From your comments here, you are in no positiion to be commenting on anyone elses lives. Your membership in this club is hanging by ...

Does anyone know what film Jay Howe was directing at Roach in June 1924? Jay A. Howe was directing HOT STUFF, a Spat Family comedy from May 26th-June 11, 1924, then did retakes on it from June 18-21st. he then co-directed THE RUBBER NECK with Victor Potel from June 30th-July 3rd, later handling ret...

Lehrman didn't last a week and he was back at Warner Brothers. Richard, is this something you could elaborate on? I've only found one other article so far in Moving Picture World that covers much of the same stuff that Brent's LA Times article covered, but haven't found any evidence to date that Le...

Jack Cooper in the top hat, Bobby Ray in the light-colored derby.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

That's Hal Yates with the pipe, not Beaudine. As for "Charley Chase", here's a jaw dropper for you - I think it may be Henry Lehrman! It looks like him, and not tall and thin enough to be Chase, and this may be circa April 12, 1927, when Lehrman was announced in the L.A. Times as being pl...

Okay. In "Sold at Auction", Joe plays a character named Mike Casey, the book thrower who bought James Finnlyson's books. The actor is basically the same height as Joe and has the same exact mannerisms. He's dressed with an Irish chin-like beard and huge eyebrows, and hates German music (p...

Michael J Hayde wrote:Is that Robert McGowan standing (or leaning) at far left?

Michael

Yep.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

I was watching two films off of the first "American Slapstick" DVD, and noticed that Joe Keaton appeared in both films. They are Snub Pollard's "Sold At Auction" and Billy Bevan's "Lizzies of the Field". In Sold, he's wearing huge false eyebrows, and hates the German s...

I found a cliplet of "The Misfit" (1924) on a silent film DVD set, starring Clyde Cook and Big Joe Roberts. The voice-over said that it was made at Keaton Studios. I read on Ron Pesch's site (http://www.actorscolony.com) that the film was released as "Under Orders" by Educationa...

I don't think it has anything to do with the Disney movie. According to Richard Lewis Ward's history of the Hal Roach Studios, the renaming took place when four Laurel and Hardy features from the 1930s were reissued in the late 1940s, each with a new name. The Devil's Brother, Babes in Toyland, Bon...