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| Motion Picture News, 12-November-1921 |
After supporting Brownie, "The Most Wonderful Dog in the World," Baby Peggy began to be the star. "Grab this youngster if you want a hundred laughs -- that's a Century."
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| Motion Picture News, 12-November-1921 |
"Get Rich Quick Peggy" was her first release. Among her co-stars was "Teddy, the former Mack Sennett dog."
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| Motion Picture News, 26-November-1921 |
I am not sure I have ever seen a comedy with Harry Sweet. I think I have seen some of the movies that he directed. He died in a plane crash in 1933.
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| Motion Picture News, 19-November-1921 |
The Christie Film Company was a major producer of short comedies from 1911 to 1933. Al Christie was the director and Charles Christie ran the business. The Christies featured situation comedy more than the slapstick favored by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach. Bobby Vernon started as a juvenile comedian at Keystone, where he starred in several popular comedies with Gloria Swanson.
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| Motion Picture News, 26-November-1921 |
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| Moving Picture World, 12-November-1921 |
The Christie Company was getting ambitious, sending a crew to Hawaii to make a movie.
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| Moving Picture World, 19-November-1921 |
"A Barnyard Cavalier" was a Bobby Vernon movie which was to be released in 1922. The article emphasizes that Christie was putting greater effort into their productions.
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| Moving Picture World, 12-November-1921 |
Fox had six companies producing short comedies.
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| Motion Picture News, 05-November-1921 |
One company produced "The Happy Pest," a two-reel comedy starring Al St John, which may have been inspired by Harold Lloyd's thrill comedies.
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| Motion Picture News, 05-November-1921 |
Hal Roach produced a series of comedies starring Ernest Truex, who I thought was a minor league comic.
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| Motion Picture News, 12-November-1921 |
Hal Roach continued to be the nominal producer of Harold Lloyd's films, but Lloyd had become quite independent. This mentions that Lloyd's next film would be The White Feather. This was eventually released as Grandma's Boy. Jimmy Parrott appeared in comedies written by his brother, Charles Parrott (Charley Chase).
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| Moving Picture World, 05-November-1921 |
Snub Pollard continued to appear in one-reelers produced by Roach.
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| Cine-Mundial, November, 1921 |
Roach produced movies with Harold Lloyd's brother Gaylord. Harold was funnier.
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| Motion Picture News, 19-November-1921 |
Harry Cohn, his brother Jack and Joe Brandt provided the initials for C.B.C. Film Sales Corp. The Hallroom Boys Comedies were a long running series of short comedies, based on a comic strip by Harold MacGill. At this point, Sid Smith played Percy and Jimmie Adams signed to play Ferdy.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 05-November-1921 |
Jimmie Adams signed to replace Harry McCoy as Ferdie.
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| Motion Picture News, 05-November-1921 |
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| Moving Picture World, 12-November-1921 |
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| Seattle Star, 05-November-1921 |
Jimmy Aubrey appeared in comedies for the Vitagraph. Which is scarier, his eyes or his moustache?
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| Motion Picture News, 05-November-1921 |
At this point, Lloyd Hamilton, who had been the Ham of Ham and Bud, was starring in a series of Mermaid Comedies distributed by Educational Comedies.
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