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In Red Plush and Black Velvet: The Story of Nellie Melba and Her Times (1961), author Joseph Wechsberg recounts the tale of a dinner hosted by Charlie Chaplin for the celebrated opera singer: "He once took her to dinner at the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, pretended to have forgotten his wallet, a...

Profile from a 1926 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , but no mention whatsoever of his truncated career in pictures: PART ONE http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/mrbertiewooster/toto1926a.jpg PART TWO http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/mrbertiewooster/toto1926b.jpg PART THREE http://i2.photob...

Toto can also be heard on this 1937 radio show: http://ia310837.us.archive.org/2/items/OTRR_Shell_Chateau_Singles/Shell_Chateau_37-01-23_093_Guest_-_The_Happiness_Boys.mp3 As Aaron Neathery explains on his Third Banana blog (http://thirdbanana.blogspot.com/2006/08/radio-free-joe.html): "Toto ma...

Nearly two decades after his moment in the sun on the Rolin lot, Toto crops up in this 1936 Cabin Kids short:

Jimmy Savo as depicted by e.e. cummings:

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Ordeman6.htm

Hang on. It looks like we've got a surfeit of Peggys on our hands. Peggy O'Day/Genevieve Berte was a Christie cutie-turned-Farnum co-star. Peggy O'Dare/Peggy Aarup/Ella Aarup worked for Sennett, Fox & Universal. This posting on a genealogy site would appear to settle matters: http://www.gencircl...

One of those real-names-of-the-stars articles from 1924 says Peggy O'Day and Genevieve Berte are one and the same. Both are mentioned in newspaper articles as being expert horsewomen and both starred alongside Franklyn Farnum. Berte is also mentioned in connection with Christie c.1920. The UPI obit ...

Y'know, maybe Capra was right after all. Here Langdon himself concedes his career took a nose-dive because he took on too much responsibility, resulting in "two of the lousiest pictures ever made".

There is a newsreel compliation on the British Pathe website that contains about half of the half-reel Leap Year Proposals (1912). I've not seen this particular film listed anywhere as extant. The two-and-a-half minutes worth of footage is 7'50" into the reel: http://www.britishpathe.com/record...

Charlie Chauvel, Australian actor, has lately left the comedy field for drama. Mr. Chauvel played in “Captain Fly-By-Night, “ after which he joined “Snowy” Baker’s Australian act. He has since been playing a character role in “His Last Race,” a Phil Goldstone production featuring Baker. I'd be fasc...