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Gary Johnson wrote:Yes, I can't remember the last time he joined in to a thread.

There must be Mafia money involved in the backing of this Mutual set.

No, I don't think anyone here has a penny invested in it.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

You are getting much more lenient in your old age, Richard.......giving them an entire day before revealing the answer. Meanwhile, there is trouble in Nutville over a locked thread (damn that Chaplin and his 100 year old films that don't exist in exactly the same form they did back in the day), ope...

And I gave the "experts" over at Nitratevile most of the day to figure this one out:

http://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18247


It's Miriam Hopkins you boneheads, from the OUTER LIMITS episode DON'T OPEN TILL DOOMSDAY (1964).


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's a little something from FILM DAILY I never heard before: Apparently, in 1930, Billy House made a/several shorts at Astoria. I'm specifically interested in one that featured Shubert showgirl Helen Tucker and Hammerstein girl Gloria LaBow. Yep, Billy House made eight two-reel comedy shorts for...

Gary - Thanks for the explanation about the running gag of stars not appearing. I haven't listened to enough of these shows to catch on that. The state these shows exist in make them hard to listen to (and for me anyways, the 'comedy' in these early shows makes them hard to listen to, the glory day...

The Marxes were never really booked for the Benny show in the fall of 1934. That was the first year of the Jell-O program and one of Benny's silly running gags that season was pretending big stars would appear on his show and then at the last minute he would receive a telegram from them opting out....

The Benny show exists, it's the Nov 11, 1934 show. Jack mentions on the show that the Brothers were to have appeared but could not make it. Interesting that Jack refers to them as the Four Marx Brothers though Zeppo's departure had been announced in March that year. Well, ick, I'm glad I hadn't hea...

Whether there are 13 more episodes or 30, I would welcome any more editions, if only to see if they get any better. I have never been that enamored with any of these circulating episodes all these years. There is always a feeling of 40's Columbia shorts-cheapness that hangs in the air of these prog...

Who knows what other on-air gems we are missing out on today? The surviving broadcast of THE CIRCLE is indeed a great show, and the other great surviving thirties broadcasts have to include the one and a half surviving episodes of FLYWHEEL, SHYSTER AND FLYWHEEL, their 1933 NBC show that became the ...

The New York Times gets in on the act: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/movies/homevideo/shout-factory-gathers-marx-brothers-tv-spots.html Ah well, another snooty, East Coast "aren't we just so above it all" NYT "nose in the air", we-guess-it's-a-good review. Pointless whining ...