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Moving Picture World, 01-March-1919 |
100 years ago this month, in March, 1919, the Vitagraph announced that Larry Semon would have his own comedy series, separate from the Big V comedies.
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Moving Picture World, 01-March-1919 |
The Big V comedies would feature Montgomery and Rock and Jimmy Aubrey.
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Moving Picture World, 22-March-1919 |
Exhibitors liked getting a Larry Semon movie every month.
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Moving Picture World, 29-March-1919 |
Larry wrote, directed and starred in "Well, I'll Be," I don't know how it wound up with a title that was not alliterative. The separately listed Big V Comedies had proper titles.
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Exhibitors' Herald, 29-March-1919 |
"The comedies will be published once a month..." This is an unusual use of "published."
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