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Not a comedy but certainly a rarity: An early Paramount starring Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson, for both their debut talkie: https://youtu.be/-zVYC7ZBz1U

Michael Caine won The Wrong Box tontine.

Posted on YouTube courtesy of Sabucat: Picture People (1940). Fields gets pretty roughed up in this one. https://youtu.be/QJf7Md912zs

This was posted on the Silent Movie Channel under the title, Her Friend the Bandit, Chaplin's only lost film. Well, we know its not that, and it's not even Chaplin. But which Billy West comedy was this taken from? https://youtu.be/h6uNgQMpP5o

Lots of interesting stuff in this trailer for Susan Fleming Marx and Robert Bader's upcoming book, Speaking of Harpo, due out on July 15. The quality of Bader's video interviews with Susan are good enough to be included in a documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7AxqNAbzc

If you're watching a movie, and find yourself obsessing on grain, actors' freckles, a millimeter or two of cropping; you're not doing it right.

Ok, so its no timeless classic, but any film with Edgar Kennedy, Billy Gilbert, William Demarest, Spanky McFarland, and directed by Eddie Cline is OK by me. https://youtu.be/q8nDfzod18U

Praise the Lord!!!

Another one from Steve the 9.5 Collector titled SAY IT WITH FLOWERS, but ID’ed by Steve Massa as SUNLESS SUNDAY (1921), an early Educational. https://youtu.be/dBP75DuRY2s

I think this was derived from Duck Inn (1920), but would be happy to be proven wrong. https://youtu.be/6hhoTIJrsSY