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- Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:40 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26904
Re: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
Here is what sets The Silent Comedy Mafia apart from other sites: Facts are not a matter of consensus. Preferences are, of course, but nobody gets away with changing the truth because it makes a better story. Frederica clearly has a historian's eye, while the original poster has made it abundantly ...
- Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:03 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26904
Re: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
I see the NNN (Nameless Nitrateville Nincompoop) who started the whole silly thread on early deaths in Hollywood gets snarky when anyone tries to give him the facts. Sorry Frederica, but I understand that one too well from my days on Nitratevile. See folks, whether you're doing a scholarly tome or j...
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 4:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26904
Re: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
Yes, there are too many to list. I posted one, director Lynn Reynolds-suicide, but there are still so many obvious ones left, like Billie Ritchie. And how would you characterize "Smiling Bill" Parsons-actor, producer, director? Did he work himself to death? Was it stunt-related as implied...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:07 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26904
Nitratevile Silliness: Silent Film Tragedies
I see the NNN’s are compiling a list of “silent film tragedies”, i.e people who died young or mysteriously during or soon after the Silent Era. As usual, the first one they list os Thomas H. Ince, of “probable murder”, even though that group of all people should know better than that. And of course ...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:19 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Leo McCarey
- Replies: 9
- Views: 47107
Re: Leo McCarey
Gary Johnson wrote:Alcohol and Alzheimers..........the double whammy.
Or a really weird Larry Semon short from 1918.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 7:22 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Leo McCarey
- Replies: 9
- Views: 47107
Re: Leo McCarey
In articles and interviews I always found McCarey rather self-effacing when talking about L&H. It was never "I told them to do this....I invented derby hats..." He mostly just seem to enjoy re-telling his stories of everyone laughing on the sets and having fun. And he always came acro...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:31 pm
- Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitratevile Correction Dept: Jon Tuska
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5875
Nitratevile Correction Dept: Jon Tuska
Hey Bruce Calvert, Congratulations, you've added more of the general misinformation that is a hallmark of Nitratevile these days: You got the wrong Tuska! John Tuska was an artist that indeed passed away in 1998, but Jon Tuska, as far as I know, is still alive and living in Portland, Oregon, but cer...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:08 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Leo McCarey
- Replies: 9
- Views: 47107
Re: Leo McCarey
Dear Mafia Members--- Thank you for re-opening the registration to this site. My name is David Hennessy and I have been enjoying your site for a while. My question for you all is this: I was wondering how much credit should be given to Leo McCarey in the creation and development of Laurel and Hardy...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:45 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: The Posts of Christmas Pasts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24741
Re: The Posts of Christmas Pasts
Gary Johnson wrote: In fact, of the trio of great comedians who ended up at Jules White's Gin Mill, I would say Chase fared best. Oh, absolutely; there's no WHAT MAKES LIZZY DIZZY lurking in Chase's Columbia canon.[/quote] Which begs a question, what is the WORST Columbia short of all time? (and I ...
- Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:53 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: The Posts of Christmas Pasts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 24741
Re: The Posts of Christmas Pasts
Quoting Gary Johnson: "That was one of the reasons I put off grabbing the Betty Boop Essential DVD's that have been coming out earlier in the year. I kept reading on animation blog sites that the consensus was that after Olive Films released all of the Boops volumes individually they would turn...