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- Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Behind the scenes still at the Hal Roach Studio
- Replies: 20
- Views: 40847
Re: Behind the scenes still at the Hal Roach Studio
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 pl...
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:32 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Joe Keaton in non-Buster Keaton films
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14350
Re: Joe Keaton in non-Buster Keaton films--Paging Paul Gierucki
Okay. In "Sold at Auction", Joe plays a character named Mike Casey, the book thrower who bought James Finnlyson's books. The actor is basically the same height as Joe and has the same exact mannerisms. He's dressed with an Irish chin-like beard and huge eyebrows, and hates German music (p...
- Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:09 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Behind the scenes still at the Hal Roach Studio
- Replies: 20
- Views: 40847
Re: Behind the scenes still at the Hal Roach Studio
Michael J Hayde wrote:Is that Robert McGowan standing (or leaning) at far left?
Michael
Yep.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:45 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Joe Keaton in non-Buster Keaton films
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14350
Re: Joe Keaton in non-Buster Keaton films
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...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:56 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Misfit (1924)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9377
Re: The Misfit (1924)
I found a cliplet of "The Misfit" (1924) on a silent film DVD set, starring Clyde Cook and Big Joe Roberts. The voice-over said that it was made at Keaton Studios. I read on Ron Pesch's site (http://www.actorscolony.com) that the film was released as "Under Orders" by Educationa...
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:07 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Babes in Toyland/March of the Wooden Soldiers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15439
Re: Babes in Toyland/March of the Wooden Soldiers
I don't think it has anything to do with the Disney movie. According to Richard Lewis Ward's history of the Hal Roach Studios, the renaming took place when four Laurel and Hardy features from the 1930s were reissued in the late 1940s, each with a new name. The Devil's Brother, Babes in Toyland, Bon...
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:29 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: HER FRIEND THE BANDIT found?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12777
Re: HER FRIEND THE BANDIT found?
Her Friend the Bandit (1914) is Chaplin's one lost film (not counting The Sea Gull .) It was discussed extensively over on SilentComedians.com . OK, I don't know that much Spanish, but this Argentine website seems to say that film restorer Enrique Bouchard has a copy of Her Friend the Bandit . http...
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:32 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bobby Burns in 1920?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13866
Re: Bobby Burns in 1920?
Who was Bobby Burns making movies for in 1920? We have an unidentified Burns comedy that I thought was a latter day Vim comedy.... the door on the doctor's office says something like "LOT A. VIM". However a close look at the license on the car shows a 1920 NEW JERSEY plate, obviously elim...
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:00 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A Chapter From My Upcoming Book on Glenn Tryon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 22149
Re: A Chapter From My Upcoming Book on Glenn Tryon
Bob Birchard wrote:Just to be a cranky nit-picker, shouldn't it be "A Chapter on Glenn Tryon From My Upcoming Book"? The other way it sounds like the book is about Glenn Tryon alone. Also, I found there was one "too" too few in the posted text.
Yeah, yeah, yeah........
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:29 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Vaudeville resources?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 54457
Re: Vaudeville resources?
From the Piqua Leader-Dispatch, 02/07/1914 http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc328/PatheLehrman1950/SwainsRatsandCats.jpg Which brings to mind two things: Was Mack Swain related to the Swain of Swain's Rats and Cats? And the old Brother Theodore quote:"You know you can train a rat? You can sp...