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Rum and Wallpaper (1915) is a Keystone comedy that was recently discovered at the Library of Congress. It was previously thought lost, but was recently repatriated to the USA from Australia. The IMDB lists Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand in the film, but it is clearly in error. Thanks to George W...

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/05/buster_keaton_set_for_permanen.html Buster Keaton set for permanent stay in Muskegon By Bill Iddings | The Muskegon Chronicle May 30, 2010, 7:16AM Forty-four years after his death, Buster Keaton’s back in town. A life-size bronze statue o...

Ain't Love Grand? (1921) is a Fox Sunshine comedy from 1921 starring (and directed by) Al St. John. The IMDB has very little information on it. aintLoveGrand_still.JPG I'm trying to identify the actors in this still. Al is definitely in the middle, and I think that it Babe London on the right. Any ...

http://www.niles.org/events/cc_days_flyer_10opt.pdf Saturday,. June 5 Sunday, June 6 Old Town Niles (Main Activities on Niles Blvd. between F & I Streets) 11 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. LOOKALIKE CONTEST Come dressed up like him or another movie star and win a prize! 2:00 p.m. SUNDAY only! Evening Screenin...

If you didn't like Paths to Paradise or Hands Up! , then I doubt that you will like any of his other features. The Night Club does have Wallace Beery as a villain, but it's still a pretty low budget feature. http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com/stills/night_club091.jpg Incidentally, there is no &qu...

While I don't think that Raymond Griffith was a comedic genius like Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, or Laurel and Hardy, he was certainly a very inventive comedian and writer. After you have seen many comedies with similar clown dressed in strange clothes, I think that his character comes across as very inv...

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Although described as a Charlie Chaplin film, this sure looks like a Billie West film with Oliver Hardy. Does anybody know what the title could be? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370339772550&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT http://www.cyberbuys.com/pics/12012t.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/29/charlie.chaplin.restoration/index.html Early Chaplin films 'quite nasty, quite naughty, quite adult' By Grace Wong for CNN January 29, 2010 12:41 p.m. EST London, England (CNN) -- Charlie Chaplin won the world over playing the Little Tramp, but the comic ...

“Otay!” The Billy “Buckwheat” Thomas Story William Thomas, the man known as “Buckwheat,” one of the most beloved characters in the history of the Our Gang and Little Rascals films, rose from obscurity to become an American icon. Billy’s heritage grew to be more than the ninety-three comedies in whic...