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Roscoe Arbuckle hung from a building in downtown Los Angeles filming The Life of the Party in 1920, more than a year before Harold Lloyd filmed scenes from Never Weaken in 1921, while featuring views of buildings Harold would use filming Safety Last! in 1923. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/20...

This was filmed in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, appearing in Chaplin's The Idle Class, and Lloyd's A Sailor-Made Man, and near Castle Rock, a very popular beach location, where Chaplin filmed The Adventurer. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/how-charlie-chaplin-filmed-the-adventu...

Find out why Houdini filmed at a Hollywood alley later used by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd.

https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/houdini-the-grim-game-more-hollywood-connections/

Cheers, John

Buster Keaton dedicated his most famous short film Cops (1922) to Harry Houdini, the man Keaton credits as giving him his name. Remarkably, Cops was filmed at three places where Houdini filmed The Grim Game in 1919. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/houdini-keaton-the-grim-game-cops/ ...

Where Chaplin and Frank Sinatra would later appear in The Pilgrim (1923) and Suddenly (1954).

https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/chaplin-sinatra-the-pilgrim-and-noir/

Cheers, John

TCM is airing Duck Soup tonight. It was filmed at the Jewett estate where Keaton filmed Cops and Born to Kill was also filmed. You can see the connections here https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/groucho-buster-and-noir-at-the-pasadena-jewett-estate/

Cheers, John

From this link you can download a PDF tour of the many downtown and Wilshire Boulevard film locations appearing in Chaplin's City Lights . The tour starts at the Los Angeles Theater at 615 S. Broadway, where the movie had its world premiere. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/charlie-c...

The Travel Channel visits Chaplin Hollywood film locations this Monday night in a piece called Tramping Through Hollywood . I haven't seen it, but consulted with the producers. http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/time-traveling-with-brian-unger/episodes/monuments-man-and-tramping-through-hollywood Ch...

Certain trees appearing 100 years ago during the battle scenes from The Birth of A Nation , and 80 years ago with the Three Stooges, remain standing today at Forest Lawn. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/the-three-stooges-birth-of-a-nation-forest-lawn-trees/ Cheers, John

Certain trees appearing 100 years ago during the battle scenes from The Birth of A Nation , and 80 years ago with the Three Stooges, remain standing today at Forest Lawn. https://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/the-three-stooges-birth-of-a-nation-forest-lawn-trees/ Cheers, John