Harold Lloyd in a Revolutionary Riot -- September 7, 2023

Motion Picture News, 29-September-1923

Why Worry?, despite some racist elements, is one of Harold Lloyd's funniest films. It was his first film with new leading lady. Jobyna Ralston. Harold and Jobyna are supported by a giant, John Aasen.

Motion Picture News, 08-September-1923

"Different from anything Lloyd has ever done -- romantic, adventurous, sensational, screamingly funny, great."

Motion Picture News, 01-September-1923

Marie Mosquini -- September 6, 2023

Cine-Mundial, September, 1923

Cute Italian-American actress Marie Mosquini starred in hundreds of short comedies. Hal Roach often teamed her with Snub Pollard. I remember her best as Buster Keaton's wife in "One Week." They had great chemistry together. After she retired from movies around 1930, she married her second husband, Phonofilm inventor Lee De Forest. 

Los Angeles Times, 01-February-1922

This item says Marie Mosquini and Snub Pollard got engaged. I think she was already married to her first. They never married each other, as far as I know. Anyway, they look happy.

Marion Davies -- Twentieth Meets Fifteenth Century -- September 5, 2023

Cine-Mundial, September, 1923

I have never seen another photo of Marion Davies with her hair arrayed in this fashion. Her clothes look fairly modern. 

Motion Picture News, 01-September-1923

In August, Marion Davies left a wreath at the grave of Robert Fulton, promoter of the Clermont (officially the North River Steamboat), which is generally regarded as the first economically successful steamboat. Fulton was a character in her film Little Old New York.

Motion Picture News, 22-September-1923

Cosmopolitan built this set in their New York studio for Marion's next movie, Yolanda. 

Motion Picture News, 29-September-1923

Recently launched US Navy Zeppelin ZR-1, later called Shenandoah, sailed over the set of Yolanda. "Twentieth Meets Fifteenth Century."

The Molly Maguires -- September 4, 2023

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Happy Labor Day, everyone.

The Molly Maguires was a 1970 movie directed by Martin Ritt and starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. It was distantly based on real events when oppressed coal miners in Pennsylvania created a secret society to fight back against mine owners. The movie gives a good example of working conditions in the late 19th Century. 

Biograph -- All Films 12 Cents -- September 3, 2023

New York Clipper, 11-April-1903

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was an early American producer and manufacturer. Biograph offered its own productions, many made at the famous studio at 11 East 14th Street in Manhattan. They also carried Star Films produced by Georges Méliès in France and British films made by Charles Urban's Warwick Trading Company. 

This ad also has a "Special -- Just Received, Launching of Shamrock III, With Sir Thos. Lipton and His Guests." British yachtsman Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of the tea company, tried to win the America's Cup five times between 1899 and 1930, always with a boat named Shamrock.  He never won, but he was widely respected for his sportsmanship. Perhaps this was film of the launching of the Shamrock III in 1903:

http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com/2013/09/sir-thomas-lipton-again-fails-to-lift.html

One of The Most Ingenious of the Comedies Ever Produced by Larry Semon -- September 2, 2023

Motion Picture News, 15-September-1923

The Rex Theater in Eugene, Oregon used large cutouts to advertise The Girl of the Golden West. The cutout of Larry Semon, advertising a comedy short, is scary. 

Motion Picture News, 15-September-1923

Motion Picture News, 22-September-1923

"... declared by Vitagraph officials to be one of the most ingenious of the comedies ever produced by Larry Semon ..."

150 Years of Cable Car Service -- September 1, 2023

We interrupt the regularly scheduled program to bring you this important message.

Today we celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the beginning of cable cars in regular service.

Learn more about the Cable Car Sesquicentennial: 

https://sfcablecars.org/

My cable car website:

http://www.cable-car-guy.com/index.html