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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Buddy Messinger, native of San Francisco and brother of Gertrude Messinger, had already appeared in many short- and feature-length movies by the time he signed with Century Comedies. I suspect the studio was trying to replace Baby Peggy, who had moved on to feature films.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Bobby Dunn was an experienced comic actor. He was one of the original Keystone Kops. Note that the article spells his first name in two different ways. I think "Bobby" was the more common spelling.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
"Cameo Clean Cut Comedies" were one-reel comedies released by Educational. "The cleverest and fastest rough and tumble comedies of the day." You can tell that Jack White was involved.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
The Christie Film Company was a major producer of short comedies from 1911 to 1933. Educational distributed their films. Al Christie was the director and Charles Christie ran the business. Life Magazine film critic Robert E Sherwood wrote "The Christies are about the only comedy producers since Sidney Drew died who have been able to strike a happy medium between light farce and slap-stick, and it is to be hoped that they will continue the good work -- for the field is limitless."
Christie sent a unit to Honolulu to make "A Hula Honeymoon." The movie must have had a high budget for a two-reel comedy.
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| Motion Picture News, 10-March-1923 |
Christie sent another unit to Truckee to shoot snow scenes for "Winter Has Came." Good title
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Roach veteran Snub Pollard had moved up from one-reeelers to two-reelers.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Hal Roach's new series, Our Gang, was a hit.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
American Humorist Will Rogers did a series for Roach. I have seen one. It had a lot of verbal humor.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
This may seem confusing, but one of Hal Roach's comedy series was called the "Hal Roach Comedies." They were one-reel comedies that alternated between Stan Laurel and Paul Parrott, Charley Chase's brother.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
CC Burr produced All Star Comedies. CC Burr produced and Greg La Cava directed. Charlie Murray was a Keystone veteran.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Jo-Rok Productions made a series of two-reelers starring and and directed by movie pioneer Joe Rock.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Mack Sennett produced "The Shriek of Araby," starring Ben Turpin in a spoof on Rudolph Valentino. F Richard Jones directed.
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| Motion Picture News, 03-March-1923 |
Sennett and Jones also produced and directed the feature
Suzanna, starring the wonderful Mabel Normand.
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