Lay For The Yellow Dog -- September 8, 2018

Moving Picture World, 14-September-1918

Schmeling-Louis Fight Film -- September 7, 2018

Detroit Tribune, 27-June-1936

Detroit's State Theater showed film of the 19-June-1936 fight at Yankee Stadium between heavyweights Max Schmeling of Germany and the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis of Detroit.  Much of the world was shocked when Schmeling knocked out Louis in the 12th.  The second fight, on 22-June-1938, went differently.

Washington Star, 20-July-1936

Washington DC's Cameo Theater showed the fight film the next month.

Burt Reynolds, RIP -- September 6, 2018

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Burt Reynolds has died.  I didn't see many of his movies in the theater.  I remember Deliverance and The Longest Yard, but he was frequently mentioned in Mad Magazine and could be pretty funny in real life.  I managed to avoid seeing all the Smokey and the Bandit movies.

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Huns and Hyphens -- September 5, 2018

Film Daily, 20-September-2018

100 years ago this month, in September, 1918, Larry Semon was starring in two reel Big V Special Comedies like "Huns and Hyphens." Vitagraph liked alliterative names for comedies.

Moving Picture World, 21-September-1918

"Vitagraph has started out to make its new feature comedies on the highest possible plane for subjects of this character, the stories, settings and personnel of the 'Big V Specials' having been selected on a feature basis."

Exhibitors' Herald, 23-September-1918

  "This new unit will place Vitagraph in a class by itself, because it will be the only company releasing a two-reel special feature comedy every week in the year."

Gloria Jean, RIP -- September 4, 2018

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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 Sucker an Even Break, and they seem to have liked each other.

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Matewan -- September 3, 2018

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In 1987, John Sayles directed a cast including James Earl Jones in Matewan, the story of the 1920 Battle of Matewan.  Miners tried to organize the Stone Mountain Coal Company. The Company cut wages and brought in scabs. The Baldwin-Felts agency sent goons to evict the miners from their homes. Shooting broke out and seven goons and two miners died.

Valerie Perrine, 75 -- September 3, 2018

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Happy 75th birthday to actress Valerie Perrine, who was born on 03-September-1943.  I remember her in Superman and other movies and television shows.