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Yep, it's from WINGS, this is Margery Chapin, William Wellman's then wife in the scene in the french farmhouse where Richard Arlen crashes and then dies.

RICHARD M ROBERTS (thanks to William Wellman expert Frank Thompson for his ID on the actress)

It's amazing still how few people know about this movie, Roger Corman said for years that it was his only film that lost money, even if it is the best thing he ever did, from a great Charles Beaumont script and an early powerhouse William Shatner performance. If you don't know it, you'd better watch...

We've been getting great feedback on the Zoom Webinar and are happy everyone seems to be enjoying it (and hey, it's perfectly okay to be enjoying it in increments, I haven't even watched it all yet). One big credit and pat on the back should indeed go out to Hooman Mehren, who did one truly Herculea...

.......or maybe Billie Ritchie impersonator, this time from Portugal, one Hector Quintanilla, apparently making a live appearance for "his" fans, sometime in 1916:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcosuiw13gU

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Bizarre Snub Pollard Hal Roach comedy released by Pathe' July 25, 1920, directed by Alf Goulding and featuring Snub with Hughey Mack, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Marie Mosquini, George Rowe, Charles Stevenson and Sammy Brooks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIwcT1frzRk&t=190s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Another Pathe' comedy featuring Mauritz Schwartz, these are always fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO-tpqMuOF0&t=122s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Strange early Biograph film, released May 8, 1908, directed by Wallace McCutcheon, features Eddie Dillon and Florence Auer, and supposedly D. W. Griffith, but Mack Sennett is definitely one of the members of the club (can't mistake him, he's wearing a derby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUwJdqIQ...

Finally! The Niles Film Museum got it up on Youtube, and it's in synch. Here's the official link :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNmo0rIcBA&t=11010s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Still my favorite Christmas song, so give it another listen if you heard it last year, still a great way to get in the holiday spirit.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Ahh David, you beat me to it, but indeed, a Happy Holiday Season to all Mafiosi. No question, this year sucked, so let's be happy to see the back of it and hope 2021 is a big improvement.

God rest ye merry, ladies and gentlemen, let nothing you dismay.

RICHARD M ROBERTS