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Newsreel footage of Laurel & Hardy's arrival in Paris during their 1932 summer vacation from Hal Roach Studios:

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Eddie Cantor was the star attraction of the 1927 Ziegfeld Follies. In this edition, fellow comedian Andrew Tombes portrayed Florenz Ziegfeld and was a connecting link between various sketches. In these comic strips Tombes is wearing a silver-mane toupee and is dressed similarly to Ziegfeld's own sar...

Thanks for sharing, David! Very enjoyable, and a Lennox Pawle discovery as well - to those who only know him as Mr. Dick in DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935), he's terrific here. What a shame he didn't have a two-reel comedy series - he could've been the Benny Hill of his day!

LB.jpg Starring Paramount's house team of Wallace Beery & Raymond Hatton, the attraction for most audiences today is the (too-brief) appearance of Louise Brooks. Approximately 22 minutes of the feature, based on elements from reels 2, 3 and 6, preserved in the Czech Film Archives, discovered by...

Thanks, Robert - the strips you posted did not show up in my search. There's still "gold" to be mined!

With the theme of comedians (and Louise Brooks! - many thanks, Robert) appearing in comic strips, the following fits right in, and it just fell into my lap - literally. I was looking in a Kalton Lahue book this morning, and a yellowed clipping fell out - Harry Langdon & Lita Chevret in a pose fr...

Hey Gang, VCI is having a spring 60% off SRP sale on it's DVD and Blu-Ray titles, including the Kit Parker/Sprocket Vault releases, so a good time to pick up either of the Charley Chase, Todd and Pitts and Yes, even the Harry Langdon set for a good discount: https://www.vcientertainment.com/ The co...

Here it is, William! -- along with two other "beauts":