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| Exhibitors Herald, 14-June-1924 |
Metro touted Sherlock, Jr with an expensive ad with color in Exhibiters' Herald.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 07-June-1924 |
Monday, June 24, 2024
Only Buster Keaton Could Keep a Straight Face -- June 24, 2024
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Burns and Allen in Sixty-Forty -- June 23, 2024
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| Oakland Tribune, 01-June-1923 |
Future stars of screen, radio and television, George Burns and Gracie Allen, played in vaudeville at Oakland's Orpheum Theater. Movie star Elliott Dexter headed the bill.
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| Oakland Tribune, 01-June-1923 |
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Harry Langdon, Mack Sennett's Latest and Best Bet -- June 22, 2024
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| Exhibitors Herald, 07-June-1924 |
Vaudeville comic Harry Langdon had started to appear in short comedies for Mack Sennett.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 21-June-1924 |
Roy Del Ruth directed "The Cat's Meow."
Friday, June 21, 2024
Donald Sutherland, RIP -- June 21, 2024
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| listal.com |
I was sad to learn that Donald Sutherland has died. My condolences to his family, friends and fans. He was great in more movies than I can count. I was surprised to see how many people loved Oddball, his character in Kelly's Heroes. In addition to Kelly's Heroes, I threw in posters for Phil Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen and Alan J Pakula's Klute.
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The San Francisco Arts Commission sponsors the Art on Market Street Program, which has local artists put up a series of works on bus shelters on Market Street. Iconic City Hall was a 2016 series by Kelli Inouye which depicts movies that have used San Francisco's beautiful City Hall. This one is based on Phil Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Fred Thomson and His Marvelous Horse Silver King -- June 21, 2024
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| Film Daily, 14-June-1924 |
Fred Thomson (no relation) had a diverse career. While attending the Princeton Theological Seminary, he earned the Amateur Athletic Union's All-Around Champion trophy in 1910, 1911 and 1913. After being ordained as a Presbyterian minister, he joined the Army and served as a chaplain during World War One. He went into the movie business after he married director and screenwriter Frances Marion. In time, he became a major western star. Sadly, he died of tetanus in 1928.
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| Springfield News-Sun, 15-June-1924 |
I like the image in this ad for The Dangerous Coward. Albert S Rogell directed.
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| Arizona Republic, 01-June-1924 |
Greatest College Athlete
of all times. Holder of all
the world's College records
and the finest built
man in America with a
great horse
SILVER KING"
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| Paducah Sun-Democrat, 07-June-1924 |
I like this image of Hoot Gibson. Ride For Your Life was directed by Eddie Sedgwick.
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| Riverside Daily Press, 14-June-1924 |
I like old Hoot's checks and polka dots.
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| Riverside Daily Press, 14-June-1924 |
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| Boston Globe, 15-June-1924 |
Eddie Sedgwick also directed Broadway or Bust. I would go to this double bill which featured Hoot Gibson and Buck Jones.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 07-June-1924 |
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| Film Daily, 27-June-1924 |
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| Exhibitors Herald, 07-June-1924 |
Universal released a series of twelve five-reel westerns "featuring the famous Universal Ranch Riders." Six starred Jack Hoxie and six starred William Desmond.
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| Photoplay, June, 1924 |
"Jack, seated upon his huge white horse, comes riding into the picture just when he's needed most..."
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| Riverside Daily Press, 13-June-1924 |
This is not a good drawing of Jack Hoxie.
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| Riverside Daily Press, 13-June-1924 |
Clifford Smith directed Ridgeway of Montana.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 14-June-1924 |
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Buck Jones -- The Most Sensational Avalanche Ever Screened -- June 20, 2024
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| Richmond Palladium-Item, 12-June-1923 |
The Fox Film Corporation needed a western star to back up Tom Mix. Buck Jones made a long series of movies for Fox. Fox had tried to change his billing to Charles Jones. Here we see both names in the same ad.
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| Richmond Palladium-Item, 07-June-1923 |
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| Reading Times, 09-June-1923 |
Emmett J Flynn directed Hell's Hole.
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| Boston Globe, 15-June-1924 |
I would go to this double bill of Hoot Gibson and Buck Jones.
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| Film Daily, 22-June-1924 |
Edmund Mortimer directed Against All Odds.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tom Mix Starts Work on Fiftieth Picture -- June 19, 2024
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| Exhibitors Herald, 07-June-1924 |
The article is a mite confusing. If I counted correctly, The Heart Buster was Tom's fifty-first starring feature for Fox. Before that, he appeared in shorts for Fox and a long series of shorts and a few features for the Selig Polyscope company.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 21-June-1924 |
Tom played a flying forest ranger in Eyes of the Forest, which was directed by Lambert Hillyer. Cupid's Round-up was Tom's first feature film for Fox, released in 1918. Edward LeSaint directed. Fox must have rereleased the movie.
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| Davenport Daily Times, 28-June-1924 |
"When Tom Mix leaps from a horse to an airplane, you'll leap right out of your seat."
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| Davenport Daily Times, 28-June-1924 |
Tom in his aviator togs.
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| Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, 28-June-1924 |
I like the wolf in this ad for North of Hudson Bay. John Ford directed.
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| Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, 28-June-1924 |
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| Great Falls Tribune, 15-June-1924 |
"You've Seen -- TOM MIX -- in Trouble -- in Misery -- in Hot Water -- in Happiness. NOW SEE 'TOM MIX IN ARABIA'"
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| Photoplay, June, 1924 |
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| Exhibitors Herald, 14-June-1924 |
I was surprised to learn that Napier, New Zealand had a Mardi Gras carnival. Tom's hat wrote on a float in the parade.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 14-June-1924 |
Tom Mix and heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey were major celebrities. Jack was in Hollywood to appear in a series of short films.
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