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Shields and Cooper - I knew they looked familiar! I'm going to have to get myself better acquainted with these comedians - looks like I'll contact Bill Sprague in the morning. And looking at IMDb I see that Bobby Ray was formerly Bobby Fuehrer, Universal Ike Jr. - ya learn something new every day. T...

Richard M. Roberts wrote:Nothing worth elaborating on. Lehrman was signed, then left. I've never found his name on one single Roach credit or uncredit.

Thanks, Richard.

R. Joseph Physician wrote:Have any of you even heard of a woman?

Yeah, I'm married to one. What am I missing here?

Tom Reeder

Can anyone shed any light on this film? It appears on the DVD "Old Time Comedy Classics 3," and once you mute the annoying music track the comedy itself is quite good, slickly done, with some comparitively elaborate sets and some great gags. The opening credits - which look to be originals...

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...

The fellow second from the left with the pipe looks a little like William Beaudine, who did a couple of films for Roach in the early '20s.

Reeder

A skillet full of potatoes? Whew!

Los Angeles Times, 10/26/1938, p. 13

Tom Reeder

R. Joseph Physician wrote:Mr. Tom, what magazine published the article, "What makes Charlie Run?"

Ah, sorry - an oversight on my part. The article was in the Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1954, p. K20-22.

Tom Reeder

R. Joseph Physician wrote:What's that from Mr. Reeder?

Please, "Tom" will suffice. And what's the question?

Mr. Reeder

Hmmm...The synopsis for GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! sounds suspiciously like Sidney Drew's WANTED, A NURSE from the previous year. But then I guess that was standard operating procedure back then.

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