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In the eBay photo, Vic Potel is commemorating Gloria Swanson's 1925 return to Hollywood from Europe, when Paramount literally declared a studio holiday and many of the industry's celebrities came out to greet Gloria and her new husband, the Marquis Henry de La Falaise.

Thanks for posting the link, Ed. (My wife keeps asking me what I want for Christmas.) Glad to share the good news, Joe. As I just posted on Facebook -- between this Charley Chase Scrapbook, Brian's Chase biography SMILE WHEN THE RAINDROPS FALL, and Richard's superb analysis of Charley's film career...

ccsb (1).jpg Today, on the anniversary of his birth, Brian Anthony and Bill Walker published THE CHARLEY CHASE SCRAPBOOK - a celebration of the life and career of one of our favorite comedians. I just received my copy and must tell you it's a must-have acquisition for Mafia members' home library. I...

Ed, did you know how that one, albeit regionally limited, Lloyd revival that I'd say did have some success, on German television, came about? Pretty much all I know is that Richard Correll must have been invloved. The Time-Life Lloyd theme song was used, but other than that the versions were origin...

7. The Christies refinanced both Metropolitan and Christie Film Company in September 1930, and promptly saw most of the independent producers who made films there (Harold Lloyd, Harold Hughes/Caddo Company, M.H. Hoffman, Sono-Art, Al Rogell, Brown & Nagel, etc) leave. While researching the hist...

There's a fascinating moment during "mystery guest" Harold Lloyd's 1953 appearance on "What's My Line?" when a blindfolded Dorothy Kilgallen asks Lloyd, "Were you a film comedian...like Laurel & Hardy?" The audience's derisive laughter at this remark -- they of cour...

Just to level out the playing field a bit and prevent Keaton from sounding too saintly, I would say a good portion of that resentment toward Lloyd could also be accounted to good old professional jealousy. Lloyd's box office take routinely blew Keaton's films out of the water - which Keaton never r...

Buster Keaton was very much a gentleman regarding his public opinions of Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, so it may raise a few eyebrows when some readers see his off-the-record comments about these two contemporaries, quoted by Harold Goodwin and Bill Cox, which will appear in the book Bill Cassar...

Don't know why Watz thinks he needs a new photo. This one looks fine. (I didn't know that it snowed on Ben Turpin's funeral........) You're right Gary, that is a splendid photo, snow notwithstanding -- it's just too bad that Buster Keaton is not in it. Thanks to our generous Godfather (who gracious...