May and Harry... They Were So Great Together

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Chris Snowden
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May and Harry... They Were So Great Together

Postby Chris Snowden » Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:49 pm

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Who knew that May McAvoy and Harry Langdon did silent comedies together? Look at that train in the background... this still must be from The General.

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Re: May and Harry... They Were So Great Together

Postby Rob Farr » Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:01 pm

And the scene just screams 1914. Puts me in mind of Joe Adamson's famous comment about "the Myrna Loy westerns of Alfred Hitchcock". That's what happens when a Fox publicity hack returns from a 3-martini lunch.
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Re: May and Harry... They Were So Great Together

Postby Brent Walker » Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:06 pm

And to think Snub Pollard was still working in movies in 1960 (while Langdon had been dead 15 years), while Marie Mosquini's (aka "May McAvoy") husband Lee DeForest had just won an honorary Oscar the year before! You'd think somebody at Fox's publicity department would do at least some basic fact checking in 1960.


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