tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77835217484428625842024-03-19T00:30:32.642-07:00Big V Riot SquadJoe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.comBlogger2748125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-35808311644192812552024-03-19T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-19T00:30:00.137-07:00Harry Langdon in Two Reel Comedies -- March 19, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="557" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" width="296" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motion Picture News, 29-March-1924</td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Vaudeville comic Harry Langdon had started to appear in short comedies for Mack Sennett. Harry looks dapper in this image. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240308_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="744" height="355" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240308_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 08-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Alberta Vaughn was Harry's leading lady in "Smile Please."</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240329_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="950" height="96" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240329_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 29-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Alice Day was Harry's leading lady in "Shanghaied Lovers."</div><div><br /></div><div>Roy Del Ruth directed both films. </div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-3323034129042208292024-03-18T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T00:30:00.148-07:00Meet Fred Thomson -- March 18, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/fred_thomson_mpnews_19240322_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="554" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/fred_thomson_mpnews_19240322_001.jpg" width="293" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 22-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><div>Fred Thomson (no relation) had a diverse career. While attending the Princeton Theological Seminary, he earned the Amateur Athletic Union's All-Around Champion trophy in 1910, 1911 and 1913. After being ordained as a Presbyterian minister, he joined the Army and served as a chaplain during World War One. He went into the movie business after he married director and screenwriter Frances Marion. In time, he became a major western star. Sadly, he died of tetanus in 1928.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>FBO announced plans to release six movies starring Thomson. </div><div><br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/fred_thomson_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="559" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/fred_thomson_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 29-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><u>Galloping Gallagher</u> is a great title. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>This Monogram apparently had no relation to the famous B-movie studio of the 1930s and 1940s.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/fred_thomson_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="557" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/fred_thomson_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" width="292" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 15-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Both <u>Galloping Gallagher</u> and <u>The Mask of Lopez</u> were directed by Albert S Rogell. </div></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-53921072567013268382024-03-17T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T00:30:00.141-07:00Happy Saint Patrick's Day, 2024 -- March 17, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/adele_mara_saintpatrick_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="454" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/adele_mara_saintpatrick_001.jpg" width="308" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Actress Adele Mara appeared in many movies and television shows. She married novelist and television show devisor Roy Huggins. At first I thought she was throwing Irish soda bread, but she may be tossing bricks. I don't know why. </div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-27060527679588049042024-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-16T00:30:00.136-07:00The Girls Go Crazy Over It -- WAGL -- March 16, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/wagl_19240328_003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="571" height="202" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/wagl_19240328_003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 28-March-1924</B></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
The Girls Go Crazy Over It -- WAGL.Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-82495228065908114162024-03-15T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-15T00:30:00.135-07:00Buck Jones -- The Circus Cowboy -- March 15, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buck_jones_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="694" height="292" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buck_jones_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motion Picture News, 29-March-1924</td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>The Fox Film Corporation needed a western star to back up Tom Mix. Buck Jones made a long series of movies for Fox. I imagine they tried to change his name to Charles to allow him to move into other movie genres. Wild Bill Wellman directed <u>The Vagabond Trail</u>. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buck_jones_mpnews_19240329_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="457" height="321" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buck_jones_mpnews_19240329_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 29-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Wellman also directed <u>The Circus Cowboy</u>. Fox had been trying to change Buck's name to Charles. </div><div><br /></div><div>Notice that the leading lady was Marian Nixon, who went on to have a successful career in non-Westerns. 13 "Baby Stars" were chosen each year by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers as young actresses who showed promise. </div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-65098991887051977612024-03-14T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:30:00.131-07:00Hoot Gibson -- The Fastest, Funniest, Most Entertaining Picture This Popular Star has Ever Produced -- March 14, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_filmdaily_19240330_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="665" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_filmdaily_19240330_001.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 31-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Hoot Gibson looked like a funny guy. Eddie Sedgwick directed the beautifully titled <u>40 Horse Hawkins</u>. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="452" height="312" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 15-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Director Eddie Sedgwick also acted in <u>40 Horse Hawkins</u>. It had been ten years since he gave up acting for directing.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="388" height="381" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 29-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>I like how Broadway or Bust, Hoot's next movie, is described as a comedy rather than a western.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_mpnews_19240308_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="754" height="312" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/hoot_gibson_mpnews_19240308_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 08-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>
Dig that hat in the top center photo. <br />
<div><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/jack_hoxie_mpnews_19240322_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="684" height="386" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/jack_hoxie_mpnews_19240322_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 22-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Jack Hoxie was a real cowboy and rodeo performer who became a big star in the early 1920s. <u>The Phanton Horseman</u> was directed by Bob Bradbury. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/jack_hoxie_mpnews_19240301_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="390" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/jack_hoxie_mpnews_19240301_001.jpg" width="352" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 01-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><u>The Man from Wyoming</u> was also directed by Bob Bradbury. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/jack_hoxie_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="458" height="314" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/jack_hoxie_mpnews_19240329_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 29-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><u>Ridgeway of Montana</u> was directed by Cliff Smith. <u>The Back Trail</u> was shot at Lone Pine. It was directed by George Marshall and Cliff Smith. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/lester_cuneo_filmdaily_19240321_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="575" height="385" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/lester_cuneo_filmdaily_19240321_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 21-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Unable to deal with the death of his wife, Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925. W Adcock directed <u>Western Grit</u>. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/lester_cuneo_filmdaily_19240320_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="774" height="371" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/lester_cuneo_filmdaily_19240320_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 20-March-1924</B></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-80562804743978098382024-03-13T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-13T00:30:00.139-07:00Time Magazine -- Eugene O'Neill -- March 13, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/time_magazine_55-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/time_magazine_55-1.jpg" width="304" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Time</u>, March 17, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Eugene O'Neill was a realist playwright. </div>
<div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2018/james_oneill_altaca_18840615_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="865" height="362" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2018/james_oneill_altaca_18840615_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Alta California</u>, 15-June-1884</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
His father, James O'Neill, spent a significant portion of his career playing Edmond Dantes, <u>The Count of Monte Cristo</u>. James O'Neill played the part over 6000 times between 1875 and the early Twentieth Century. He grew sick of the role and felt that it stunted his growth as an actor, but the public demanded that he play the Count.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>After Eugene was expelled from Princeton, he joined the merchant marine. He fought with depression and alcoholism, but he gathered material for many of his plays. He joined the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Union.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2022/emperor_jones_topekastatejournal_19221021_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="835" height="400" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2022/emperor_jones_topekastatejournal_19221021_002.jpg" width="391" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Topeka State Journal</u>, 21-October-1922</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/300full-emperor-jones-poster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/300full-emperor-jones-poster.jpg" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Struck by tuberculosis, he spent time ashore in a sanitarium. He began to write plays. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. This gave him enough money to buy a house in Danville, California. Tao House is a national historic monument. I have never visited there.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>Many of his plays were successes on stage and went on to become movies.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_nytrib_19211103_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="909" height="103" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_nytrib_19211103_001.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>New York Tribune</u>, 03-November-1921</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/blanche_sweet_casperdailytribune_19231221_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="355" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/blanche_sweet_casperdailytribune_19231221_001.jpg" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Casper Daily Tribune</u>, 21-December-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_brkdailyeagle_19241116_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="813" height="159" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/eugene_oneill_brkdailyeagle_19241116_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</u>, 16-November-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-90027697536901422842024-03-12T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-12T00:30:00.139-07:00Helen Parrish 100 -- March 12, 2024<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/494full-helen-parrish.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="494" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/494full-helen-parrish.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Actress and singer Helen Parrish was born 100 years ago today, on 12-March-1924. She played a foil to Deanna Durbin in several movies. She made several appearances on television in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-61424866243123437562024-03-11T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:30:00.135-07:00Tom Mix -- A Super Feature Revival -- March 11, 2024<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/tom_mix_filmdaily_19240320_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="960" height="205" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/tom_mix_filmdaily_19240320_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 20-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
This ad offers a revival of "Pals in Blue," a 1915 three-reeler Tom Mix directed for the Selig Polyscope Company.<p></p>
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<p>Meanwhile back in 1924, Fox was finalizing the cast for Tom's next picture, <u>The Trouble Shooter</u>. Jack Conway directed. </p>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-88703603479001995302024-03-10T00:30:00.001-08:002024-03-10T00:30:00.137-08:00Harry Carey -- Sure-Fire at Any Box-Office -- March 10, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_carey_mpnews_19240308_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1100" height="266" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_carey_mpnews_19240308_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 08-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Harry Carey starred in <u>The Night Hawk</u>, which was directed by Stuart Paton and produced by Hunt Stromberg.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_carey_mpnews_19240322_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="556" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_carey_mpnews_19240322_001.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 22-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_carey_mpnews_19240308_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="374" height="295" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_carey_mpnews_19240308_002.jpg" width="374" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 08-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>The movie announced as <u>Desert Rose</u> was released as <u>The Lightning Rider</u>. </div><div><br /></div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-40761772889334108072024-03-09T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-09T00:30:00.124-08:00What Do We Live For? WAGL -- March 9, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/wagl_19240328_002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="467" height="247" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/wagl_19240328_002.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 28-March-1924</B></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>What Do We Live For? WAGL.</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-30403175699044127712024-03-08T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-08T00:30:00.148-08:00Hart Through -- March 8, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/william_s_hart_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="549" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/william_s_hart_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" width="282" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Photoplay</u>, March, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
A nice portrait of William S Hart in costume for <u>Wild Bill Hickok</u>, his first film after returning to Paramount after a personal scandal.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/william_s_hart_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="1127" height="101" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/william_s_hart_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 15-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><u>Singer Jim McKee</u> turned out to be his last movie for Paramount.</div>
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<div>"Hart had experienced differences of some sort with Jesse L. Lasky." He was done at Paramount/Famous Players-Lasky. <br />
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<div>Hart travelled to New York to try for a reconciliation.</div></div>
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<div>Hart and a friend went on vacation. "...he will no longer make pictures for Famous."</div>
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<div>Motion Picture Magazine gave a snarky review of <u>Wild Bill Hickok</u>. "We will have to catalog it as old-fashioned." </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-46592964064615174222024-03-07T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-07T00:30:00.136-08:00Harold Lloyd -- Girl Shy -- March 7, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harold_lloyd_mpnews_19240322_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="558" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harold_lloyd_mpnews_19240322_002.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 22-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><u>
Girl Shy</u> is a fun movie. I get a little uncomfortable with Harold's work of literature, but you can't beat the race to the church.
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<div>Releasing it on Easter Sunday was an interesting choice. </div>
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Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-13692077253046823932024-03-06T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-06T00:30:00.146-08:00Jay C Flippen 125 -- March 6, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/740full-jay-c-flippen.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/740full-jay-c-flippen.jpg" width="339" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Actor Jay C Flippen was born 125 years ago today on 06-March-2024. I have seen him in many movies and television shows for my whole life, but I only looked up his name in the last year or so. He was good at playing crusty old guys. He had a successful career in vaudeville. His film career started in 1947.
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<div>Notice that neither his face nor his name appears on any of these posters.</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-14677722576361328192024-03-05T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-05T00:30:00.160-08:00WAGL -- March 5, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/wagl_19240328_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="581" height="206" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/wagl_19240328_001.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 28-March-1924</B></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>WAGL.</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-18640227845783486882024-03-04T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-04T12:53:12.249-08:00Buster Keaton -- Three Ages -- What the Well-Dressed Man of the Ages Should Wear -- March 4, 2024<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="800" height="238" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Photoplay</u>, March, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><i>This post is part of the <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/the-10th-annual-buster-keaton-blogathon/">Tenth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon</a>, hosted by Lea at <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/">Silent-ology</a>. A blogathon that has lived for ten years is a rare creature</i></div>
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For the first annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in vaudeville: <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-3-4-5-keatons-february-8-2015.html">The 3-4-5 Keatons</a>.<br />
For the second annual blogathon, I wrote about <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2016/02/buster-keaton-and-passing-show-of-1917.html">Buster Keaton and the Passing Show of 1917</a>, the show he signed for after leaving vaudeville.<br />
For the third annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster's transition from vaudeville to the movies, <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/02/buster-keaton-from-stage-to-screen.html">Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen</a>.<br />
For the fourth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army: <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2018/02/buster-keaton-goes-to-war-february-12.html">Buster Keaton Goes to War</a>.<br />
For the fifth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time making short comedies with Roscoe Arbuckle, <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2019/02/comique-roscoe-buster-al-and-luke.html">Comique: Roscoe, Buster, Al and Luke</a>.<br />
For the sixth annual blogathon I wrote about <a href="http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2020/03/buster-keatons-first-feature-saphead.html">Buster Keaton's First Feature: The Saphead</a><br />
For the seveth annual blogathon I wrote about <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2021/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-one.html">Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel One</a>, a series of films produced during 1920-1921. Buster and his team had a very high batting average.<br />
For the eighth annual blogathon, I started to write about the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2022/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-two.html">Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two</a></i>
<div><i>For the ninth annual blogathon, I wrote about the rest of the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. <a href="https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2023/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-two.html">Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two and a Half</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>For the tenth annual blogathon, I have written about the first feature that Buster Keaton had control over, <u>The Three Ages</u>. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Be sure to click on most images to see larger versions.</i></div><div>
<br />I first became interested in Buster Keaton when I watched <u>The General</u> with my grandfather and he told me how much he had always liked Buster Keaton.<br />
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When I discovered that the Anza Branch Library had a shelf of books about movies, I found two books about Buster Keaton, Buster's memoir <u>My Wonderful World of Slapstick</u> and Rudi Blesh's <u>Keaton</u>. I read both and I enjoyed learning about his career in vaudeville and his career in the movies.<br /><br />Buster made a series of nineteen two-reel comedies in 1920-1922. No one ever asks me, but I tell people that this series of comedies and Charlie Chaplin's series for Mutual are the two best series of silent comedy shorts ever made. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>The movies of the first season had been released by Metro. The movies of the second season were released by First National. </div>
<div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230203_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="325" height="400" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230203_001.jpg" width="360" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 03-February-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Buster's brother-in-law Joe Schenk negotiated with Metro to release Buster's features. Most of his feature films would be distributed by Metro and its successors. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230616_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="657" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230616_001.jpg" width="354" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 16-January-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br /><div>Schenk made a deal with Metro to handle Buster's features. The plan was to make them five reels in length. "The first Keaton comedy is called 'The Three Ages.' The comedian recently completed this on the west coast under the direction of Eddie Cline. It is characterized as a burlesque on civilization."</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/740full-intolerance-poster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="541" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/740full-intolerance-poster.jpg" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Many sources say that <u>Three Ages</u> is a parody of DW Griffith's 1916 epic <u>Intolerance</u>. I'm still looking for contemporary sources that say it was. </div>
<div><br /></div><div><u>Intolerance</u> is an incredibly complicated movie that weaves together four stories which were set in wildly different eras. The fall of Babylon is set in 539 BCE. The story of Jesus, shortest of the four, took place around 30 CE. The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre took place in 1572 CE. The modern story took place about 1915 CE. The film was not a simple presentation of four stories in order, but it jumped from place and time to place and time. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_ridgewoodheraldnews_19230111_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="526" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_ridgewoodheraldnews_19230111_001.jpg" width="421" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Ridgewood Herald-News</u>, 11-January-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>"Buster Keaton, he of the solemn visage, is no longer a featured two-reel comedy star." Buster and his crew were working on a script. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230908_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="396" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230908_001.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 08-September-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>"Buster Keaton to Discard Pancake Hat." Gasp! He was going to ditch it for two-thirds of <u>Three Ages</u> and almost all of <u>Our Hospitality</u>.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/740full-three-ages.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="519" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/740full-three-ages.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>listal.com</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><u>Three Ages</u>, as the title implies, was set in three eras, prehistoric, ancient Roman and modern times. The three stories are lightly intertwined. Some sources say that if the movie had not been a success, it could have been cut into three two-reelers, but I haven't seen any contemporary references to that. </div>
<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/three_ages_001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="800" height="296" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/three_ages_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div>The prehistoric story includes many anachronisms and stereotypes, such as a woman getting hit with a club as a courtship ritual, and Buster riding on the back of a stop-motion dinosaur. </div>
<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/three_ages_002.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/three_ages_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div>In the Roman story, Buster's chariot has a rear-mounted spare wheel and a license plate. He parks next to a No Parking sign in Latin and a cop tells him to move on. </div>
<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/three_ages_003.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="301" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/three_ages_003.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div>"The Present Age of Speed, Need and Greed" begins with Buster's Model T Ford disintegrating when it hits a rut in the road. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>The film continues, offering a variation on the same situation in each era. In each story, Buster competes with big, mean Wallace Beery for the hand of <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Margaret Leahy and Leahy's father, played by giant Joe Roberts favors Beery. Watch for the chariot race in the snow. </span></div>
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<div>Metro touted <u>Three Ages</u> with an expensive four-page ad with color in <u>Motion Picture News</u>. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230717_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="634" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230717_002.jpg" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 14-July-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><u>Three Ages</u> premiered in London on 25-June-1923. Among the attendees were the Queen Mother Alexandra, mother of King George V and Princess Alice, wife of the king's brother, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>Perhaps the premier was in London was because leading lady Margaret Leahy was British. She toured the UK doing personal appearances where the movie was shown. Buster's sister-in-law Norma Talmadge had brought Leahy to the US. Norma received a thank you note from Princess Alice for her kindness to Leahy. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/keaton_birminghamageherald_19231007_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="508" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/keaton_birminghamageherald_19231007_002.jpg" width="254" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Birmingham Age-Herald</u>, 07-October-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>"Six Reels of Mirth and Thrills." The five-reel thing didn't quite work out. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>I like the design of this ad for the Loew's Bijou in Birmingham, Alabama. The accompanying vaudeville program sounds like fun. The 3 Maxellas were "Superb Risley Gymnasts." Richard Risley Carlisle was a famous 19th Century gymnast and juggler. He was often billed as "Professor Risley." He developed the Risley Act, a routine which involved an acrobat lying on his back and juggling children or objects with his feet. Doris and Al Lester offered "Breezy Farcical Bits." The Dinus and Belmont players presented "A Musical Frappé" with "A Little Nifty Nonsense."</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_filmdaily_19231014_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="571" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_filmdaily_19231014_001.jpg" width="301" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 14-October-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Douglas Fairbanks, one of the biggest stars in the heavens, said he was "Crazy about 'The Three Ages.'" He would "Thoroughly recommend it for the tired motion-picture man -- of whom I'm one these days." </div>
<div style="font-style: italic;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_indianapolisstar_19231029_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_indianapolisstar_19231029_001.jpg" width="190" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Indianapolis Star</u>, 29-October-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
This ad includes the stone age cliche of a man holding a club and carrying off a woman. "Something new in Comedy Pictures."
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_moscowdailystar-mirror_19231201_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="410" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_moscowdailystar-mirror_19231201_001.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Moscow, Idaho Daily Star-Mirror</u>, 01-December-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>This ad for Moscow, Idaho's Kenworthy Theater shows Roman Buster with a lion. This is one of my favorite scenes in the film. If they had already launched the Academy Awards in 1923, the lion should have won Best Supporting Actor -- or Actress. <br />
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_mpnews_19240119_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="760" height="354" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_mpnews_19240119_002.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 19-January-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>CD Haug, "Metro's exploitation representative," helped the Crown theater in Mobile with "several novel exploitation stunts."</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19231208_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="374" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19231208_001.jpg" width="307" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 08-December-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Loewe's New Orleans Crescent Theater held a Keaton hat contest. They distributed five thousand cut-out paper hats and gave tickets to the first twenty children who brought in one of the hats. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_sfchron_19231008_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="939" height="293" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_sfchron_19231008_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>San Francisco Chronicle</u>, 08-October-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>And then things got weird. <u>Three Ages</u> played in San Francisco at the New Mission and the New Fillmore, both owned by the Nasser brothers. "The Theaters Beautiful." The New Fillmore closed before I was born. My family used to eat at a restaurant near the New Mission. I remember its distinctive blade sign, but I don't think I saw a movie there before it became a furniture store in the early 1980s. I was surprised in the early 2000s, when the Alamo Drafthouse took over the building and converted it into a five-screen theater. All of this is not the weird thing. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>I wonder if my grandfather went to see the movie at the New Fillmore. He was living with his parents on John Street near the Cable Car Barn at Washington and Mason. He could have caught an outbound Washington/Mason cable car at Mason and transferred to a southbound 22-Fillmore streetcar. This is not the weird thing, either. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_sfchron_19231008_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="498" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_sfchron_19231008_002.jpg" width="259" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>San Francisco Chronicle</u>, 08-October-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230901_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="981" height="230" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230901_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 01-December-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>What was weird was that this billboard showed up in two locations in San Francisco. It said "Prepare! K. K. K. is Coming!" This may have startled some people. The Second Ku Klux Klan was thriving in many parts of the US in 1923, but I don't think it had much influence in San Francisco. The members of the Klan hated African-Americans, Jewish people, Roman Catholics and foreigners. San Francisco's African-American population was very small before World War Two, but Jewish people, Roman Catholics and immigrants, like my grandfather and his family, made up a significant part of San Francisco's population. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>As the caption says, it turns out that "K. K. K." stood for "Keaton's Kolossal Komedy." I don't think that is a good slogan. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230901_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="572" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19230901_001.jpg" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 01-December-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>And here we have another Metro trade paper ad with color. The walking billboard says the movie was playing at Loewe's Warfield, a theater on Market Street.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19231103_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_mpnews_19231103_001.jpg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 03-November-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>It turned out that the "K. K. K. is Coming!" campaign was created by "Metro Exploitation representative" CD Haug in Nashville. "Nashville Will Soon Know the Power of K. K. K." I believe that at this time the Klan had more influence in Nashville than it did in San Francisco. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_latimes_19230402_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2023/buster_keaton_latimes_19230402_001.jpg" width="273" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Los Angeles Times</u>, 01-April-1923</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Speaking of weird, while all of this was going on, Buster learned that there was a racehorse named "Buster Keaton." He went to see the horse run and later his sister-in-law Norma Talmadge bought an ownership share in Buster Keaton -- the horse.</div><div><br /></div><div>And on top of that, in 2018 someone in South Africa named a thoroughbred gelding racehorse Buster Keaton. In 2024 he is still active, but appears to have only one first-place finish. <br /><br />
<div><i>This post is part of the <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/the-10th-annual-buster-keaton-blogathon/">Tenth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon</a>, hosted by Lea at <a href="https://silentology.wordpress.com/">Silent-ology</a>. It is amazingly impressive to me to see a blogathon go on for ten years. Thank you to Lea for all the hard work. Thank you to everyone who visited, and I encourage you to read and comment on as many posts as you can. Bloggers love comments.</i></div>
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Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-18287458463854327282024-03-03T20:04:00.000-08:002024-03-03T20:04:41.310-08:00Pola Negri -- March 3, 2024<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/pola_negri_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="537" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/pola_negri_photoplay_192403_001.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Photoplay</u>, March, 1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Here is a colorful portrait of Pola Negri, who was born in Poland and became a big star in German movies. In 1922 she went to America.<div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-35149292778467890742024-03-02T23:08:00.000-08:002024-03-02T23:08:17.648-08:00Paley's Kala-Techno-Scope Exchange -- March 2, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/paleys_nyclipper_19040102_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="771" height="153" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/paleys_nyclipper_19040102_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>New York Clipper</u>, 02-February-1904</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>"Machines and Films Bought, Sold, Exchanged and Rented."</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-74640160680945722122024-03-01T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-01T00:30:00.126-08:00Larry Semon -- Trouble Brewing -- March 1, 2023<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/larry_semon_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="549" height="132" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/larry_semon_mpnews_19240315_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 15-March-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Larry Semon started at Vitagraph in 1915. He started as a director and became a major comedy star. The relation turned acrimonious and "Trouble Brewing" was his last film for Vitagraph. Larry was going to move on to feature films. Larry and James D Davis co-directed. </div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-89589107966796349142024-02-29T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-29T00:30:00.167-08:00Century Comedies -- Consistently Good -- February 29, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/baby_peggy_mpnews_19240202_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="495" height="363" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/baby_peggy_mpnews_19240202_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>
Baby Peggy Montgomery had been Century's biggest comedy star. She moved on to starring in features for Universal and Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures. <u>Captain January</u> was based on a book by Laura E Richards. Shirley Temple starred in another adaption.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/baby_peggy_mpnews_19240202_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/baby_peggy_mpnews_19240202_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/baby_peggy_mpnews_19240202_003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="501" height="278" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/baby_peggy_mpnews_19240202_003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>I hope the kids at New York's Hebrew Orphan Asylum enjoyed Baby Peggy's first feature, <u>The Darling of New York</u>. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240223_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="589" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240223_001.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 23-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Century carried on with other comedy series. "A Barrel of Real Fun!"</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240223_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="552" height="255" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240223_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 23-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Al Herman had just finished directing his thirtieth Century comedy for the Stern Brothers. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240216_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="800" height="315" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240216_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 16-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Giant Jack Earle starred with Harry McCoy in Century's "Keep Going." Robert Kerr directed. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240223_003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="800" height="312" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_comedies_mpnews_19240223_003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 23-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Young Buddy Messinger starred in "Quit Kidding," directed by Al Herman.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_camera_19240209_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="800" height="27" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/century_camera_19240209_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 09-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Century Studio was at 6100 Sunset Boulevard, which is now a parking lot. At the corner of North Gower, it was near what is now Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/butterfly_comedies_19240211_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="422" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/butterfly_comedies_19240211_001.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 11-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>I know almost nothing about Sherwood MacDonald and I know even less about Butterfly Comedies. I think this is the only time I have seen the word "filmbrand."</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_mpnews_19240223_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="800" height="271" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_mpnews_19240223_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 23-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Christie Comedies: "Fast and Funny." "The Best Bet for a Balanced Program." "In the Front Line of Laughmakers."
Lots of tag lines. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_mpnews_19240216_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="800" height="270" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_mpnews_19240216_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 16-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Please excuse the racism. Jimmie Adams seems to have done a lot of blackface. William Beaudine directed "Aggravating Papa." </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_mpnews_19240202_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="578" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_mpnews_19240202_001.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Christie Comedies are "Crammed With Laughs and Action." Dorothy Devore was a popular Christie star. Scott Sidney directed "Stay Single." </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/ad_mat_christie_comedies_19240225_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="800" height="308" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/ad_mat_christie_comedies_19240225_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 25-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_features_filmdaily_19240208_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="800" height="193" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_features_filmdaily_19240208_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 08-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Al Christie was planning to make feature-length comedies." </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_filmdaily_19240225_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="800" height="211" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_filmdaily_19240225_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 25-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Dorothy Devore and Walter Hiers were going to star in the first Christie feature, <u>Hold Your Breath</u>. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_mpnews_19240223_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="226" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_mpnews_19240223_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 23-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/ad_mat_christie_comedies_19240208_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="800" height="276" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/ad_mat_christie_comedies_19240208_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 08-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_camera_19240202_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="800" height="34" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/christie_comedies_camera_19240202_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Camera</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>The Christie Studio was at 6101 Sunset at Gower. There is nothing remarkable there now. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-45404944664416684892024-02-28T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-28T00:30:00.143-08:00From the Pen of the Mighty Micheaux -- February 28, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/micheaux_omahanewera_19240209_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="535" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/micheaux_omahanewera_19240209_001.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Omaha New Era</u>, 08-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>
Oscar Micheaux was a pioneer in producing what were known as race films. 100 years ago this month, his film <u>Within Our Gates</u> was going to play at the New Diamond Theater in Omaha. <div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/micheaux_omahanewera_19240209_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="205" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/micheaux_omahanewera_19240209_002.jpg" width="165" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Omaha New Era</u>, 08-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>"Race's Greatest Screen Star/Evelyn Preer."</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/evelyn_preer_stlouisargus_19240229_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="800" height="101" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/evelyn_preer_stlouisargus_19240229_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Saint Louis Argus</u>, 29-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>The "Versatile Miss Evelyn Preer" would soon appear in person at the Booker Washington Theater in Saint Louis with "Those Wonderful Lafayette Players."</div></div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/colored_theater_filmdaily_19240225_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="800" height="170" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/colored_theater_filmdaily_19240225_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 25-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The Lafayette Theater in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "catering to a colored clientele," was destroyed by fire. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-63021849144949863732024-02-27T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-27T00:30:00.132-08:00Happy International Polar Bear Day, 2024 -- February 27, 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2022/nordisk_logo_001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="http://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2022/nordisk_logo_001.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><br />
Carmichael wishes everyone a happy International Polar Bear Day. Carmichael's grandfather was a movie star in the Old Country.
<div><br /></div><div>Please do what you can to slow the loss of sea ice.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/moveon_climate_solutions_001.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/blog/2024/moveon_climate_solutions_001.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>moveon.org</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-48257630476794429422024-02-26T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-26T00:30:00.145-08:00Crisp to Direct Keaton -- February 26, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_19240225_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="800" height="106" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_19240225_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Film Daily</u>, 25-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Buster Keaton hired Donald Crisp to direct his next film, <u>The Navigator</u>. Crisp is mostly remembered as an actor, but he directed a large number of silent films and one talkie. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_camera_19240202_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="800" height="40" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/buster_keaton_camera_19240202_001.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Camera</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Keaton's studio at 1025 Lillian Way was first used by Charlie Chaplin while he was making his Essanay films. Roscoe Arbuckle used it to make short comedies, and then turned it over to Buster Keaton. The site is currently marked by a plaque.</div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-91539914891914931552024-02-25T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-25T00:30:00.130-08:00Charlie Chaplin Seeks Feminine Foil -- February 25, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_camera_19240202_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="373" height="640" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_camera_19240202_001.jpg" width="315" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Camera</u>, 02-February-1924</td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Edna Purviance was Charlie Chaplin's leading lady for seven years, from his second Essanay film, through the Mutuals, to <u>The Kid</u> and his short films for First National. Chaplin directed her in his first production for United Artists, <u>A Woman of Paris</u>.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>For his first starring feature for United Artists, <u>The Gold Rush</u>, he looked for a new leading lady. He planned to produce a dramatic film starring Edna Purviance. </div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_camera_19240202_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="800" height="27" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_camera_19240202_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Camera</u>, 02-February-1924</td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>The Chaplin Studio, where he was preparing <u>The Gold Rush</u>, is now occupied by the Jim Henson Company.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_mpnews_19240216_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="447" height="369" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_mpnews_19240216_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 16-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<div>Chaplin signed his old associate Mack Swain for <u>The Gold Rush</u>.</div>
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_mpnews_19240216_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="440" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/chaplin_mpnews_19240216_002.jpg" width="325" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 16-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Columbia Pictures, which had recently changed its name from Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC), produced Screen Snapshots, a series of short films, between 1920 and 1958. They generally featured candid photos of Hollywood stars. Chaplin and his buddy Douglas Fairbanks appeared in Number 11. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783521748442862584.post-20973865849080776022024-02-24T00:30:00.000-08:002024-02-24T00:30:00.135-08:00Mack Sennett Presents Picking Peaches With Harry Langdon -- February 24, 2024<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240209_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="592" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240209_001.jpg" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 09-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
Vaudeville comic Harry Langdon had started to appear in short comedies for Mack Sennett. "Picking Peaches," directed by Erle C Kenton, was the first. Sennett's Bathing Beauties were prominently featured.
<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240202_002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="800" height="324" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240202_002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240202_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="440" height="400" src="https://www.cable-car-guy.com/images/bigv/2024/harry_langdon_mpnews_19240202_001.jpg" width="282" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Motion Picture News</u>, 02-February-1924</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Langdon's childlike/childish character did not appear in this film.</div><div><br /></div>Joe Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165780971886135575noreply@blogger.com0