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Also from imd(um)b's Arbuckle bio:



"Roscoe wrote his own stories first, tried them out and then devised funny twists to generate the laughs."


Have you ever seen such cogent comedy construction commentary?


RICHARD M ROBERTS

31 of these prints out of my own collection, and most of them beautiful.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

And it was written by Benny's radio writers at the time, Morrow and Beloin. I though that the Field's segment of TALES OF MANHATTAN (42) was their first stab at movie writing. They worked on this and BUCK BENNY RIDES AGAIN of the same year. Those two films were the only ones of Benny's that were ve...

Here's something you don't see often an Italian Larry Semon impersonator in a silent tv commercial for a paint company. Have no idea when it was made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKbUURCUA0E Some kind of newsreel with the same guy, Febo Conti. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9lOzR6FdSU What sort...

Here's on of the hardest to see of the Jack Benny features and the one that preserved the Benny-Fred Allen feud on film:







RICHARD M ROBERTS

SALOON BAR This is another of those nice surprises that one is fortunate to stumble upon from time to time in one’s film-collecting adventures. An at-the-time unknown title that was put up on the screen late at the end of a while-back Movie Night (nearing midnight after a long afternoon-evening of f...

Thanks for posting this Dave, but one correction: don;t let the Screen Gems logo fool you, that was stuck on there from some other print. this is one of the Sol Wurtzel-produced B pictures after Fox wiped out their in-house B-picture unit in 1945 (the one they would have kept open for Laurel and Har...

That's great Richard! Thanks!! Because of Mildred's appearance and Snub being dressed the way he is, I had been thinking it was possibly GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY. But I'd also guessed you may have seen one of the surviving prints of that one, somewhere along the line... The chase in GIVING THE BRIDE A...

This is TOUGH LUCK, the eighth released (December 21, 1919) Snub Pollard Comedy. That is indeed Mildred Davis playing the leading lady.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

We've been cranking out new program notes for this years Cinevent, and we'll be posting some of those soon to whet your appetites to come out for the Fest, but here's a few more past one to start off the year, first up being this 1944 Univerasl Comedy: HER PRIMITIVE MAN Here’s this year’s offering f...