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Another Jack Douglas tome (I don't know if this one is with or without His Wife Reiko) for reading pleasure:
http://www.amazon.com/My-Brother-was-Only-Child/dp/0671812319/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281067817&sr=1-1

I remember Jack Douglas and Reiko - who very likely sat next to Joey Heatherton and Charlie Callas on The Merv Griffin Show couch - and that scares me! Haven't found a clip of them yet, but here's one of Jessel:

There's a Jessel film on the Paramount Comedy Shorts DVD http://www.amazon.com/Paramount-Comedy-Shorts-1929-Cavalcade/dp/B000CR7RAM/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1280904615&sr=1-2 . Haven't seen it. While aware that Jessel was a huge star of vaudeville (and buddy of such showbiz luminarie...

Chris - any chance you'll bring a few copies to Niles?

Thanks, Richard! I am much enjoying listening to the interview now. Robert knows his stuff and is the man regarding movie, television and animation soundtrack music. He is also the host and co-founder of the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival, in which silent and early talkie comedy shorts and cartoons...

I can substitute another two-reeler for RED NOSES. What I'd really like to find is STORY CONFERENCE, the Lillian Roth Vitaphone short in which she sings "Little Alimony Sal".

Friday February 5, 2010 At The Edison Theatre, in the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum 37417 Niles Blvd., Fremont, CA 94536: 510 494-1511 Showtime: 8:30 P.M. Admission $12 general, $10 for museum members I'm producing another "Pre-Code Follies" at Niles with Kitten On The Keys, as last yea...

Nice work, Frank!

Haven't seen the following DVD, but it does feature some lesser known Paramount one-reelers and two-reelers.
http://www.amazon.com/Paramount-Comedy- ... 882&sr=8-1

If you haven't seen the John Wayne vehicle In Old California (1942), check it out for a hilarious turn by Edgar Kennedy.

Note the following Becoming Charley Chase reviews from Amazon. The first was written by Paul Mular, who is as conversant with silent and early sound comedy films as anyone I know in my neck of the woods (Northern California). http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Charley-Chase/product-reviews/B002A2B348/re...