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It also looks like it might be Ben Hall from one of the "Harold Highbrow" shorts he did for Universal in the late 1920s. Yeah, could be. I thought about both Ben Hall and Churchill Ross from The Collegians series, but the guy in the picture looks older, the hairline is higher and the head...

[quote="Gary Johnson"]Over at Greenbriar John E. has been overly preoccupied with Rooney's past autobiography and the 'near pornographic' descriptions of his many sexual encounters. [quote] I don't believe one mention in a paragraph constitutes "overly preoccupied". I did always ...

Hello Roger and Welcome to the Mafia! It's definitely not Anita Garvin, but she looks familiar, and I think the guy in the glasses may be Jimmy Aubrey.

Where did the still come from? Is this the complete picture or has it been cropped?


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William Charles Morrow wastes his time asking the Nitratevile "experts" which Mickey McGuire Comedy was it that Blaskhawk Films released where he did a Chaplin impersonation, it is MICKEY THE DETECTIVE (1928).


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And here's MICKEYS CIRCUS, that "lost" film the NFPF was making such a big deal last week about rediscovering. amazing how rare and hard to find it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up16bvIFNd0 RICHARD M ROBERTS (yeah, I know the clip's not complete, but I have a print of the whole film ...

So Baby Peggy wins the tontine?


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Ah-ha! INTO THE LIGHT (aka THE HUNGRY ACTORS) was production D-2 on the Rolin Schedule, and was sold to Universal and released 6/10/1915. FROM ITALY'S SHORES was production D-1, and Universal put that out on 5/19/1915. Violet MacMillan is also listed as being in the cast of INTO THE LIGHT. I guess S...

If the fellow at the top in the dark hat was Bobby Vernon, he'd have to be standing on a box to be towering over the cast, that's Roy Stewart. A neat still indeed, but what do you have that indicates that the title is THE HUNGRY ACTORS? This is most likely one of the early Rolin titles shot from Jan...

Chester Beatty (Charlie Ruggles) is a glass eye salesman who has a problem with sleepwalking (how’s that for an opening line?). The second problem has kept him from marrying Tessie Weeks (Mary Boland) for 20 years, but they finally take the plunge and honeymoon at Lake Okawookieboogie Lodge, a sanit...

It got a two page review in the New York Times this past weekend (by Peter Bogdanovich): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/books/review/scott-eymans-john-wayne-the-life-and-legend.html?_r=0 Wow, Bogdanovich only managed to talk about himself three or four times while reviewing the book, he may be g...