How to ACTUALLY Find John Wayne in an Educational Comedy
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:46 am
I had a bad feeling this was going to happen……….
I mean, we’re researching Volume Two of my Magnum Trilogy on the Comedy Film Industry, the book on Educational Pictures, so we’ve been going through hundreds upon thousands of Educational Comedy stills, as well as still helping my ol’ buddy Scott Eyman with his John Wayne book, and after that nonsense with a couple of John Wayne looneys a few weeks ago over an obvious misidentification of John Wayne in a Lloyd Hamilton Comedy that he couldn’t have possibly appeared in, I’d be even more hyper-sensitive in keeping an eye out for the Dukester in Educational Comedies that I was coming across that……..
Well, yep, we found him…….
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... Wayne1.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... Wayne2.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... Wayne3.jpg
This still is from a 1927 Educational Mermaid Comedy called SEEING STARS, released October 16, 1927, Directed by Stephen Roberts and starring George Davis, with Phil Dunham, Molly Malone, Jack Miller, Ray Turner, Jack Lloyd, Bobby Burns, and Tiny Lipson, and, working as an extra, Marion Morrison himself. And gee, what I was talking about with the John Wayne Looneys in terms of finding the Guy appears to pan out: really tall kid, towers over everyone else in the room, lanky, broad shoulders, and the October 1927 release date on the short fits in just fine with Wayne’s own recollections as to having bit parts at Educational after he met John Ford in Late 1926. Not a Lloyd Hamilton Comedy, but if Wayne was doing bit parts at Educational, he would certainly be working in more than one series.
And yes, we’ve passed this around some noted historians like Sam Gill, Paul Gierucki, and Scott Eyman, and they all concur, this one’s the Duke.
So I’m sure this will cause more frothing by Mr. Tuttle and his Follower, but who cares really? The proof’s in the Pudding, or the picture, always worth a thousand words.
My Synchophants, I Thank You!
RICHARD M ROBERTS
I mean, we’re researching Volume Two of my Magnum Trilogy on the Comedy Film Industry, the book on Educational Pictures, so we’ve been going through hundreds upon thousands of Educational Comedy stills, as well as still helping my ol’ buddy Scott Eyman with his John Wayne book, and after that nonsense with a couple of John Wayne looneys a few weeks ago over an obvious misidentification of John Wayne in a Lloyd Hamilton Comedy that he couldn’t have possibly appeared in, I’d be even more hyper-sensitive in keeping an eye out for the Dukester in Educational Comedies that I was coming across that……..
Well, yep, we found him…….
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... Wayne1.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... Wayne2.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff4 ... Wayne3.jpg
This still is from a 1927 Educational Mermaid Comedy called SEEING STARS, released October 16, 1927, Directed by Stephen Roberts and starring George Davis, with Phil Dunham, Molly Malone, Jack Miller, Ray Turner, Jack Lloyd, Bobby Burns, and Tiny Lipson, and, working as an extra, Marion Morrison himself. And gee, what I was talking about with the John Wayne Looneys in terms of finding the Guy appears to pan out: really tall kid, towers over everyone else in the room, lanky, broad shoulders, and the October 1927 release date on the short fits in just fine with Wayne’s own recollections as to having bit parts at Educational after he met John Ford in Late 1926. Not a Lloyd Hamilton Comedy, but if Wayne was doing bit parts at Educational, he would certainly be working in more than one series.
And yes, we’ve passed this around some noted historians like Sam Gill, Paul Gierucki, and Scott Eyman, and they all concur, this one’s the Duke.
So I’m sure this will cause more frothing by Mr. Tuttle and his Follower, but who cares really? The proof’s in the Pudding, or the picture, always worth a thousand words.
My Synchophants, I Thank You!
RICHARD M ROBERTS