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by Phil Posner
Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:24 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Who is this with Chaplin?
Replies: 8
Views: 16316

Re: Who is this with Chaplin?

Steve Massa wrote:Yeah, it's definitely not Barrymore, and looks like the set for SUNNYSIDE in the background - all of which I'm sure you knew already.


Yes, it's the Sunnyside set. This guy looks somehow familiar, but I can't place him. I keep thinking he comes from another area of the business, maybe music.
by Phil Posner
Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:46 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Who is this with Chaplin?
Replies: 8
Views: 16316

Who is this with Chaplin?

Image

Christie's said it was Lionel Barrymore and sold it for $2500!
by Phil Posner
Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:47 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Mystery Comedy Film Crowd shot
Replies: 8
Views: 14513

Re: Mystery Comedy Film Crowd shot

Oh yeah, Mr. Bud Jamison sitting between Coleman and McGuire. This is a wonderful shot Richard - where'd it turn up? I think that's Lawrence A. Bowes next to Leo White. The fat lady might be May White. I was wrong there - it's John Rand, now that I look more closely. It might be Bowes in the second...
by Phil Posner
Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:41 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Mystery Comedy Film Crowd shot
Replies: 8
Views: 14513

Re: Mystery Comedy Film Crowd shot

Steve Massa wrote:Oh yeah, Mr. Bud Jamison sitting between Coleman and McGuire. This is a wonderful shot Richard - where'd it turn up?


I think that's Lawrence A. Bowes next to Leo White. The fat lady might be May White.
by Phil Posner
Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:45 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Chaplin Essany collector stamp
Replies: 6
Views: 10714

Re: Chaplin Essany collector stamp

Or you could check the one here:
http://www.philposner.com/ccfilmo2.htm
by Phil Posner
Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:40 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: My Classic Images review of Chaplin at Keystone...
Replies: 1
Views: 4318

Re: My Classic Images review of Chaplin at Keystone...

And is now up on my website below.
by Phil Posner
Sat May 07, 2011 7:16 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: My Classic Images review of Chaplin at Keystone...
Replies: 1
Views: 4318

My Classic Images review of Chaplin at Keystone...

....is in the May issue.
by Phil Posner
Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:12 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: PHYLLIS DILLER 1920?
Replies: 2
Views: 7837

Re: PHYLLIS DILLER 1920?

Except that Diller wasn't her birth name. It was Driver, according to Wiki.
by Phil Posner
Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:40 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: 3D Focus: Famous Harold Lloyd Scene Converted to 3D
Replies: 6
Views: 10933

Re: 3D Focus: Famous Harold Lloyd Scene Converted to 3D

Richard M Roberts wrote:Total Crap.

RICHARD M ROBERTS


My thoughts exactly (or very close - mine involved a large bovine and his feces).
by Phil Posner
Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:47 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Mabel's Blunder - Who is Mabel's Brother?
Replies: 12
Views: 23709

Re: Mabel's Blunder - Who is Mabel's Brother?

Hi Guys... Phil, looking at the portraits of Helen from the old news article, to this day it still looks like the same girl to me. There are similarities. However your clipping may show a younger, Carruthers; or maybe the Keystone films made her look older. What surprises me now is that I just re-r...