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Showing posts with label WC Fields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WC Fields. Show all posts
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Marion Davies -- A Love-Lyric of the Revolution -- November 17, 2024

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Washington Times , 29-November-1924 Janice Meredith , starring Marion Davies, was an epic tale of the American Revolutionary War. WC Field...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Marion Davies -- In the Days of 1776 -- August 26, 2024

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Exhibitors Herald , 16-August-1924 Marion Davies appeared in a string of successful movies. Exhibitors Herald , 02-August-1924 Janice ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

A Spectacular Moment from Yolanda -- May 28, 2024

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Exhibitors Herald , 03-May-1924 Yolanda was another epic starring Marion Davies.  Shreveport Times , 04-May-1924 William Randolph Hearst...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

WC Fields -- Banana Oil -- May 16, 2024

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Tacoma News Tribune , 09-May-1924 In the 1920s, "banana oil" was a synonym for "BS," "baloney" or "hors...
Friday, April 12, 2024

WC Fields and Jack Benny -- April 12, 2024

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Motion Picture News , 12-April-1924 WC Fields, who had been having a great success with Poppy on Broadway, planned to appear in a Marion ...
Friday, September 15, 2023

WC Fields -- In the New Musical Comedy Poppy -- September 15, 2023

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New York Daily News , 03-September-1923 100 years ago this month, WC Fields appeared in the Broadway premiere of a new musical, Poppy . Do...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

WC Fields -- George White's Scandals -- March 16, 2022

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Chicago Tribune , 11-March-1923 100 years ago this month, WC Fields was touring in the current edition of George White's Scandals . ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Blackhawk Bulletin 229 -- WC Fields -- October 20, 2022

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Blackhawk Bulletin 229 , October 1972 I was an avid reader of the Blackhawk Bulletin , even though I rarely had enough money to buy any mo...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Larry Semon in Golf -- August 1, 2022

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Moving Picture World , 26-August-1922 Vitagraph's comedian Larry Semon starred in "Golf." Golf comedies have always been pop...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

WC Fields & Co -- June 18, 2022

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Chicago Tribune , 30-June-1922 After a long career in vaudeville, WC Fields made his film debut in 1915, but then returned to the vaudevil...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Castle Films -- Rollicking Good Times With Filmdom's Funniest Comedians -- May 21, 2022

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Castle Films Catalog , 1970 I recently came across this scan of Castle Films' 1970 catalog. I never had enough money to buy any of the...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

WC Fields & Co -- April 14, 2022

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Washington Herald , 16-April-1922 After a long career in vaudeville, WC Fields made his film debut in 1915, but then returned to the vaude...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Bert Williams 100 Years -- March 4, 2022

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Chicago Whip , 11-March-1922 Bahamian-American comedian Bert Williams died 100 years ago today, on 04-March-1922. Williams broke racial ba...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Own Castle Films' New Comedy Sensation -- January 23, 2022

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Movie Makers , March, 1950 For many years, Castle Films and Official Films were the two big distributors of home movies.  In this ad, Ca...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

W. C. Fields, Comic, Dies at 66; Quips With Nurses To the Last -- December 25, 2021

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Washington Evening Star , 26-December-1946 Ironically, WC Fields, who professed to hate children and Christmas, died 75 years ago on Chris...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

WC Fields -- The Flivvertons and Their Family Ford -- October 24, 2021

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Washington Evening Star , 02-October-1921 After a long career in vaudeville, WC Fields made his film debut in 1915, but then returned to t...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

"Juggling Bill" Fields Becomes a Straight Comedian -- July 21, 2021

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  New York Tribune , 24-July-1921 After a long career in vaudeville, WC Fields made his film debut in 1915, but then returned to the stage...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Hula Hula Island -- April 1, 2019

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Motion Picture Classic , August, 1926 "Lillian Gish asked for and got the part of the native dancer in a South Sea Island picture w...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Gloria Jean, RIP -- September 4, 2018

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www.listal.com I was sorry to learn that actress Gloria Jean died at the end of August.  She worked well with WC Fields in Never Give a ...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

WC Fields His Lordship's Dilemma -- July 5, 2017

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Moving Picture World , 09-October-1915 WC Fields' second movie, "His Lordship's Dilemma," is probably lost.  It was pr...