The Cow's Kimono -- March 1, 2017

Film Daily, 26-June-1926

Glenn Tryon was a minor comedian who made many shorts for producer Hal Roach. "The Cow's Kimono" is a great title. And I like that cow.

Seeing the World -- February 7, 2018

Film Daily, 06-February-1927

"Seeing the World" was a short comedy with Hal Roach's Our Gang. Note that the ad also says "Hal Roach presents His Rascals." Please excuse the racism.

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Raggedy Rose -- January 3, 2018

Film Daily, 18-October-1926

Beloved Mabel Normand, who had been ill with tuberculosis, made a series of short comedies for Hal Roach.  The cast of "Raggedy Rose" included James Finlayson and Max Davison. I like the image of Mabel. 

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Your Husband's Past -- December 3, 2017

Film Daily, 02-February-1926

"Your Husband's Past" is a 1926 short produced by Hal Roach.  It starred James Finlayson and Vivien Oakland.

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Be Your Age -- November 3, 2017

Film Daily, 01-November-1926

"Be Your Age" starred Charley Chase and Gladys Hulette with Oliver hardy.  Charley Chase was a dependable star of short subject produced by Hal Roach.  The movie was directed by Leo McCarey, who later became a major director of Hollywood features like Duck Soup, The Awful Truth and Going My Way.

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 Gladys Hulette.

Tired Business Men -- October 3, 2017

Film Daily, 16-May-1927

"Tired Business Men" was a short comedy with Hal Roach's Our Gang.  Note that the ad also says "Hal Roach presents His Rascals."

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Long Pants -- September 1, 2017

Film Daily, 26-January-1926

Glenn Tryon was a minor comedian who made many shorts for producer Hal Roach.  People get his short "Long Pants" mixed up with Harry Langdon's feature Long Pants.  Tryon appears with Roach starlets Vivien Oakland and Sally O'Neil. 

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Get 'em Young -- August 1, 2017

Film Daily, 06-October-1926

Harry Myers starred in "Get 'em Young," a 1926 Hal Roach short with Eugenia Gilbert and Stan Laurel.  Myers is best remembered today as the drunken millionaire in Chaplin's City Lights.  Before this movie, he had starred with his wife Rosemary Theby in a series of comedies. 

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Forgotten Sweeties -- July 25, 2017

Film Daily, 28-April-1927

"Forgotten Sweeties" starred Charley Chase and Anita Garvin with Jimmy Finlayson.  Charley Chase was a dependable star of short subject produced by Hal Roach.  The movie was directed by Charley's brother Jimmy Parrott. 

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Dizzy Daddies -- June 1, 2017

Film Daily, 08-March-1926

"Dizzy Daddies" was a a 1926 short comedy produced by Hal Roach.  The film starred James Finlayson, who is best-remembered for supporting Laurel and Hardy, always funny Spec O'Donnell and cute Sally O'Neil.  

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The Merry Widower -- May 7, 2017

Film Daily, 26-July-1926

"The Merry Widower" was a 1926 short comedy produced by Hal Roach.  The film starred James Finlayson, who is best-remembered for supporting Laurel and Hardy and Ethel Clayton, who had been a big star in the late Teens.  

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Should Husbands Pay? -- April 9, 2017

Film Daily, 22-August-1926

"Should Husbands Pay?" was a short comedy produced by Hal Roach, directed by F Richard Jones and Stan Laurel, and released by Pathé.  The film starred James Finlayson, who is best-remembered for supporting Laurel and Hardy. 

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Bigger and Better Blondes -- March 5, 2017

Film Daily, 09-May-1927

"Bigger and Better Blondes" starred Charley Chase and Jean Arthur.  Charley Chase was a dependable star of short subject produced by Hal Roach. 

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Monkey Business -- February 7, 2017

Film Daily, 15-March-1926

"Monkey Business" was a short comedy with Hal Roach's Our Gang.  Note that the ad also says "Hal Roach presents His Rascals."  A chimp breaks out of the zoo and befriends Alan "Farina" Hoskins, an Aftican-American child.  Please excuse the racist quality of the drawing.  The Our Gang movies were not usually racist. 

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Wife Tamers -- January 8, 2017

Film Daily, 22-March-1926

Lionel Barrymore and producer Hal Roach were going through a hard patch when Roach featured Barrymore with comic Clyde Cook in "Wife Tamers" with Gertrude Astor as Barrymore's wife.

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Madame Mystery -- October 26, 2016

Film Daily, 19-April-1926

Theda Bara was a big star in the mid-Teens, playing vampish characters in Fox movies.  When the craze for vamp pictures cooled down, so did her career.  In the mid-Twenties, she made a comeback, appearing in a series of short comedies for producer Hal Roach.

The cast of "Madame Mystery" included Roach stalwarts Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson and Martha Sleeper.  

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The Hug Bug -- September 26, 2016

Film Daily, 01-March-1926

Glenn Tryon was a minor comedian who made many shorts for producer Hal Roach.  In "The Hug Bug," Tryon appears with Roach starlets Katherine Grant and Sally O'Neil. 

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Slipping Wives -- August 24, 2016

Film Daily, 18-April-1927

Priscilla Dean had been a popular actress in the late Teens and early Twenties.  By 1927, her career had slipped.  This made it appropriate that she appeared in Hal Roach's short comedy "Slipping Wives."

Herbert Rawlinson was a leading man who later did character parts in Talkies.   Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared in the movie, but not as a team.

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Anything Once! -- February 4, 2016

Film Daily, 03-January-1927

Beloved Mabel Normand, who had been ill with tuberculosis, made a series of short comedies for Hal Roach.  The cast of "Anything Once" included James Finlayson and Max Davison. I like the caricature of Mabel. 

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Scared Stiff -- January 2, 2016

Film Daily, 29-April-1926

Clyde Cook was born in Australia, appeared in British music halls, starred in short comedies for Hal Roach, and had a long career playing small roles in silent and talkies. I don't know anything about the short "Scared Stiff," but the image seemed appropriate since this is going to be the Year of the Monkey. 

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