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Chris, I think this may be the 1967 reissue by Crystal Pictures, which was retitled CHARLIE'S BIG ROMANCE. The replaced TILLIE title looks of a recent vintage, and United Films may have issued it to TV.

Probably one of the Spat Family series, since he directed a lot of those that year. The Roach payroll records at USC would show what productions were in process at that date.

Well, it was my crazy pot-stirring stab for a Saturday night. Lige Conley is on the Roach payroll for a couple of films, including SAILORS BEWARE. If it is early Twenties, then maybe it is Beaudine, since he was taking side jobs from everyone (he worked for Sennett for 5 minutes in 1922).

I just discovered that my Mack Sennett book is now on the McFarland website, with an availability date of Fall/Winter 2009, and a cover design which I am very pleasantly surprised to see, and very pleased with! http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3610-1 They've been extremely enthus...

Here's a copy of that article announcing Lehrman at Roach, from the April 17, 1927 Los Angeles Times:

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 pla...

Joe, thanks for this -- this is the first time I've seen Al Alt's name in print as having been a Hallroom Boy, though Steve Massa identified him in an HB Comedy at Slapsticon a year or two ago. I also recognized several years ago that George Williams was George "Zip Monty" Monberg, but thi...

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...

Thanks guys. The Times had short blurbs on some of this in June and December, but I figured the trades would have more info (and they did). Ward Hayes also directed at Roach after this...I'd love to find a photo of him, because I think he probably did some bit work at Keystone when his father was th...

Has anyone found much information about O'Conor Productions, or whether any films were released? I've seen a few mentions in the LA Times between June and December 1922, that Bob O'Conor had left Hal Roach and was producing his own one and two-reel comedies on a states rights release basis, featurin...