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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
Christie Comedies were becoming more ambitious. "Backgrounds from Hawaii to Alaska -- different in every picture. "Green as Grass," centered on horse racing, starred Jimmie Adams and was directed by Scott Sidney. "... a fast and thrilling race of laughs."
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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
Jimmie Adams and Charlotte Herriam.
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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
Unfortunately, Christie chose to make "Roll Along" with his actors in black face. Scott Sidney directed The movie was shot along the Sacramento River but set along the Mississippi. Jimmie Adams played Rastus Jones. "Every actor in the picture will be in burnt cork, that is to say there will be no real colored folks in the piece..."
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| Motion Picture News, 07-April-1923 |
Century Comedies, which had produced short comedies like "Sky High" was going to feature their biggest star, Baby Peggy, in a feature-length movie. Elsie Jane Wilson was to direct, but King Baggott would end up with the credit.
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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
Doris Eaton became known as the "Last Surviving Ziegfeld Girl" before she died in 2010. She appeared in three editions of the Ziegfeld Follies between 1918 and 1920. Her husband Joe Gorham, a former director for Flo Ziegfeld, produced a revue called the Gorham Follies. Joe Gorham died six months after they married, leaving Doris a widow at 19. At least two short comedies in the Gorham Follies series were produced.
Doris and her sisters Pearl and Mary, all beautiful, appeared in several editions of the Ziegfeld Follies.
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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
Hal Roach was producing short comedies which alternated between Paul Parrot, brother of Charley Chase, and Stan Laurel.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-April-1923 |
Hal Roach's new series, Our Gang, was a hit.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-April-1923 |
Snub Pollard had his own series of two-reelers for Roach.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-April-1923 |
Lloyd Hamilton had his own series released by Educational. "His unerring sense of comedy..."
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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
"The majority of 'F. O. B.' was shot in a box car ... The cast of 'F. O. B.' has no women."
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| Motion Picture News, 14-April-1923 |
Educational released Mermaid Comedies, produced by Jack White and often starring Lige Conley. Note the lion.
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