Showing posts with label Eddie Lyons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eddie Lyons. Show all posts

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Happy Snappy Peppy - July 22, 2023

Motion Picture Magazine, July, 1923

Jocko, a stuffed animal, receives instructions from Baby Peggy.

Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923

A New York doll manufacturer made a deal with the Stern Brothers of Century Comedies to make a Baby Peggy doll. This is not related to the Baby Peggy dolls made by disabled artist Peggy Wheeler:

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Fox promoted Imperial Comedies, their new brand of two-reelers. "Because of the standard set for these productions the distribution schedule is limited to 12 releases for the season."

Cine-Mundial, July, 1923

Al St John had his own series of two-reel comedies for Fox.

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

The Covered Wagon was the first epic western and an enormous hit. Many parodies followed, such as Hal Roach's "The Uncovered Wagon." Paul Parrott, Charley Chase's brother, was the star. JA Howe directed. 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

The hero and heroine escape from jeopardy by catching a streetcar which is running across the open prairie. 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

"...full of whimsey and good for a round of laughs."

Motion Picture News, 21-July-1923

This ad for Hal Roach's one-reel comedies features Paul Parrott, Stan Laurel and the Dippy-Doo-Dads. I see a dog sitting in a police vehicle, a monkey dressed as a fireman and a duck who appears to be in distress. 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

"Pick and Shovel," was directed by George Jeske and starred Stan Laurel.

Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923

In "Kill or Cure," Stanley played a patent medicine salesman whose product could be used as "a varnish, stove polish, or bug exterminator -- delightful after shaving."  Scott Pembroke directed. 

Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923

With Harold Lloyd having flown the coop, Hal Roach's biggest success was the Our Gang Comedies. 

Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923

"Lodge Night" was directed by Robert McGowan. 

Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923

Billy West started as a Chaplin imitator but later developed his own character. He starred in an Arrow series called Broadway Comedies. 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Eddie Lyons starred in another series for Arrow. "The Love of Tut" was one of many films inspired by the recent discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923

A bevy of performers from Christie comedies. 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Snub Pollard appeared in a series of two-reelers for Hal Roach. I have always liked the title of Snub's film "The Courtship of Miles Sandwich."

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Sid Smith was a veteran comedian. He starred in a new series of two-reel films distributed by Grand-Asher, which was a fairly new company. "The Joke Smith and Gloom Chaser." 

Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923

"The Boy That Packs Em In." "King of Komedies." 

Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923

Grand-Asher distributed series with Sid Smith and Monty Banks. "Happy Snappy Peppy."

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Scenes with Sid Smith and Monty Banks. 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

"The Monarch of Mirth." "The Covered Schooner" was another parody of The Covered Wagon

Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923

"12 Two Reel Comedies/Every One a Knock-Out." 

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Comic T Roy Barnes ("Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong.") signed with Grace Page Productions to star in a series of "two-reel domestic comedies." Domestic comedies usually went light on the slapstick. 

Paul Terry's animated Aesop's Film Fable was "The Covered Push-Cart." Another satire of The Covered 



Friday, August 26, 2022

Century Comedies -- They Stand Unequalled -- August 26, 2022

Motion Picture News, 05-August-1922

Century Comedies promoted their stars: Lee Moran, Brownie the Century Wonder Dog, Johnny K Fox and Queenie the Horse. Their biggest star, Baby Peggy was moving on to feature films. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Betty May was signed to be Lee Moran's leading lady. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Arvid Gillstrom had a long career directing short comedies. Century moved him from the Brownie series to Lee Moran's. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Lee Moran's former partner Eddie Lyons was starring in comedies for Arrow. 

Motion Picture News, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Uncle Dan Mason, who had played the Skipper in a series of short comedies based on Fontaine Fox's comic panel The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains, moved to FBO to star in a series of Plum Center Comedies.

Motion Picture News, 12-August-1922


Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922


Motion Picture News, 12-August-1922

I don't know much about Gloria Joy, whose "Joy Comedies" were to be released by FBO. Sherwood McDonald directed.

Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922

William Fox produced several comedy series, starring Lupino Lane, Clyde Cook, Al St John and the Lee Kids. The other article mentions the start of Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures Corporation. We will see more about that in later months. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Lupino Lane was a remarkable acrobatic comedian. Ida Lupino was his cousin. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Sisters Jane and Katherine Lee had been in movies for nearly ten years. "The Baby Grands."

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922

Harry Cohn, his brother Jack and Joe Brandt provided the initials for C.B.C. Film Sales Corp. The Hallroom Boys Comedies were a long running series of short comedies, based on a comic strip by Harold MacGill.


Educational released the Mermaid Comedies, which starred Lloyd Hamilton and others. 

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Paul Terry made the animated Aesop's Fables series.

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Max Fleischer and his brother Dave made the animated Out of the Inkwell series.

Sunday, March 27, 2022

They Went Wild Over Baby Peggy -- March 27, 2022

Moving Picture Weekly, 11-March-1922

Baby Peggy had grown to become Century's biggest comedy star, even surpassing her old comrade Brownie the Century Wonder Dog. This ad touts her role in a feature film, an adaption of Booth Tarkington's book Penrod. Wesley Barry played Penrod and Baby Peggy, billed as Peggy Jane, played Peggy Rensdale.

Motion Picture News, 21-January-1922

Baby Peggy and Wesley "Freckles" Barry in the feature film Penrod, directed by Mickey Neilan.

Exhibitors Herald, 25-March-1922

"Century Comedies Rock the Earth With Laughter." Century Comedies' four series starred Lee Moran, Harry Sweet, Baby Peggy and Brownie the Century Wonder-Dog.

Moving Picture World, 04-March-1922

Century President Julius Stern, Carl Laemmle's brother-in-law, returned from a trip to the East to find everyone hard at work under the supervision of his brother, Abe Stern.

Moving Picture World, 04-March-1922

Meanwhile Moran's erstwhile parter Eddie Lyons was making comedies for Arrow.


Moving Picture World, 25-March-1922

This ad for Educational Pictures Week featured a list of 43 Christie Comedies and a large photo of producer Al Christie.

Moving Picture World, 25-March-1922

"All Christie Comedies Available" for Educational Pictures Week.

Moving Picture World, 25-March-1922

Neal Burns was one of Christie's comic leading men.

Moving Picture World, 25-March-1922

Bobby Vernon started as a juvenile comedian at Keystone, where he starred in several popular comedies with Gloria Swanson. "The dog's name is Blanco because there is a blank space where his brains ought to be. That is harsh.

Exhibitors Herald, 04-March-1922

Al Christie had a company up in the Sierras, in Truckee. They reported that several film crews were at work in the area. 

Moving Picture World, 04-March-1922

Educational, which specialized in short subjects, released several series of comedies: "Lloyd Hamilton in Mermaid Comedies," "Bobby Vernon in Christie Comedies," "Johnny Hines in Torchy Comedies," and "Neal Burns in Christie Comedies." This ad also mentions "The Battle of Jutland" and a new series of "Wilderness Tales."


Lloyd Hamilton, who had been the Ham of Ham and Bud, starred in a series of Mermaid Comedies distributed by Educational Comedies. Most of them were destroyed in a vault fire.

Exhibitors Herald, 04-March-1922

Exhibitors Herald, 04-March-1922

Exhibitors Herald, 11-March-1922

Exhibitors Herald, 18-March-1922

Harry Cohn, his brother Jack and Joe Brandt provided the initials for C.B.C. Film Sales Corp. The Hallroom Boys Comedies were a long running series of short comedies, based on a comic strip by Harold MacGill.

Moving Picture World, 18-March-1922

Mario Bianchi was born in Cesena in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region. He emigrated to the US in 1914. He adopted the name Monty Banks and appeared in many short comedies. He later appeared in features known for daring stunt work.

Moving Picture World, 25-March-1922

Uncle Dan Mason, who played the Skipper in a series of short comedies based on Fontaine Fox's comic panel The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains, met Sunny Jim Rolph, the mayor of San Francisco. Some of the movies were shot down the Peninsula in San Mateo.