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| Motion Picture News, 05-August-1922 |
Century Comedies promoted their stars: Lee Moran, Brownie the Century Wonder Dog, Johnny K Fox and Queenie the Horse. Their biggest star, Baby Peggy was moving on to feature films.
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Betty May was signed to be Lee Moran's leading lady.
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Arvid Gillstrom had a long career directing short comedies. Century moved him from the Brownie series to Lee Moran's.
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Lee Moran's former partner Eddie Lyons was starring in comedies for Arrow.
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| Motion Picture News, 05-August-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Uncle Dan Mason, who had played the Skipper in a series of short comedies based on Fontaine Fox's comic panel The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains, moved to FBO to star in a series of Plum Center Comedies.
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| Motion Picture News, 12-August-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
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Motion Picture News, 12-August-1922
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I don't know much about Gloria Joy, whose "Joy Comedies" were to be released by FBO. Sherwood McDonald directed.
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| Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922 |
William Fox produced several comedy series, starring Lupino Lane, Clyde Cook, Al St John and the Lee Kids. The other article mentions the start of Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures Corporation. We will see more about that in later months.
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Lupino Lane was a remarkable acrobatic comedian. Ida Lupino was his cousin.
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Sisters Jane and Katherine Lee had been in movies for nearly ten years. "The Baby Grands."
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| Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922 |
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.
Educational released the Mermaid Comedies, which starred Lloyd Hamilton and others.
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| Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Paul Terry made the animated Aesop's Fables series.
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| Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922 |
Max Fleischer and his brother Dave made the animated Out of the Inkwell series.
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