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by Skretvedt
Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:30 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Flying Elephants Shooting Location
Replies: 6
Views: 11589

Re: Flying Elephants Shooting Location

Yup, "Flying Elephants" was shot in Moapa from May 9 through 14, 1927. I remember seeing a letter from Stan Laurel where he mentioned this; I think he spelled the location's name as "MOWAPA" (in caps, too). Since about one thousand people live in Moapa now, there does appear to b...
by Skretvedt
Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:20 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Who's the gossip in L&H's "Love 'em and Weep"?
Replies: 0
Views: 4356

Who's the gossip in L&H's "Love 'em and Weep"?

I'm trying to figure out who plays "Old Lady Scandal," the gossip in the early Laurel & Hardy Pathé comedy "Love 'em and Weep." Dick Bann's filmography says Gale Henry, but clearly she's not the one. Gale Henry looks like Olive Oyl. Short dark hair, big expressive eyes (often...
by Skretvedt
Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:12 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Rodemich, Sharples & the Chaplin Mutuals -- who did what?
Replies: 14
Views: 70897

Re: Rodemich, Sharples & the Chaplin Mutuals -- who did what?

Well, Rich, I figured if anyone had the cue sheets for the Van Beuren-Chaplin films, it would be you! One of my dear departed friends was Arnold Brilhart, a remarkable man who during the 1920s and '30s was a prominent saxophonist and clarinetist on New York recording sessions and radio shows. During...