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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: More Ragtime!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10713
Re: More Ragtime!
I have an old ragtime album by Dick Wellstood, playing Scott Joplin. In the liner notes for THE RAGTIME DANCE, he tells an anecdote about his being the copyist for THE RAGTIME YEARS. He apologized to the pianist who had to work from his illegible score (which was unreadable due to time constraints).
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12820
Re: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
Richard, that's one of the most concise, and certainly one of the funniest reviews I've ever read. It ranks right up there with the critic who described a 121-minute WWII epic as two hours too long.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 29164
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
There was a French book on Chaplin that contained a frame grab of Mabel Normand at a telephone operator's console with Chaplin in mufti contorting himself. I believe Harry Booker was reacting in the shot (I'm doing this from memory). Has any identified the film this is from? _________ For what this...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood
- Replies: 2
- Views: 22838
Re: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood
It's interesting that Sherwood actually mentions the effects of the bomb: the loss to his right hand.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6523
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: THE DEFENDERS (1962) Bert Wheeler, William Shatner guest stars
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14364
Re: THE DEFENDERS (1962) Bert Wheeler, William Shatner guest stars
As I'm sure everyone knows, that Shatner fella played the Robert Reed role in what might be considered the pilot, THE DEFENDER, with Ralph Bellamy, if my memory serves correctly.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Happy New Year 2024!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6530
Happy New Year 2024!
Happy New Year fellow Mafiosi! May the coming year bring you joy, peace, and plenty of goodies. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to burn some 1928 PD material to DVD to sell at my local flea market (after Covid, is that even a thing anymore?) Or as my dear Uncle Jack might have said to me, "Don'...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6523
Re: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
These are always fascinating. Thanks for all the great detective work. Sometimes it's sad to see the changes that Progress has wrought, but it's fun to pretend the ghosts of Comedy are on the scene to reenact these moments. Before I lapse into a Youngson voice over (not a bad thing, btw), I have to ...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: Chung King Chow Mein Hour (1962) Stan Freberg
- Replies: 1
- Views: 19415
Re: Chung King Chow Mein Hour (1962) Stan Freberg
And I think I spotted Billy Bletcher as Mr. Bromowitz, Advertising Control!
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:51 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THE GREAT PIE MYSTERY (1931) Harry Gribbon, Harry Myers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13380
Re: THE GREAT PIE MYSTERY (1931) Harry Gribbon, Harry Myers
Thanks Richard! I've heard so much about this, and I've been dying to see it for years. IIRC, it might be included on THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION, vol. 2. (I'm not harping on its eventual release, by the way. I know that will appear when it appears.)