Friday, October 17, 2014

Max Linder Not Dead -- October 17, 2014

Motography, 17-October-1914

Max Linder was the biggest star in film comedy before Charlie Chaplin.  Linder made hundreds of short films for Pathé.  A report from the Germans had indicated that he had been killed in the Battle of the Aisne:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2014/10/max-linder-reported-killed-october-15.html
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2014/10/max-linder-denies-he-is-dead-october-16.html
Note that the first story said that Max was 49 and this story says he was "still under 30 years of age..."

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