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Hollywood costume party, late 1930s. In 30 seconds Chico makes a pass at Betty Grable while Harry Ritz reacts violently to his cigar -- twice. Betty doesn't look thrilled being there.

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Dubbed clip of Moe, Larry and Shemp in THE TOOTH WILL OUT (1951). Vernon Dent did the original voice of the "freak-thing" choppers who leads The Boys in song.

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Whooah! Richard and Chris, thank you so much - as I read your comments it's a good thing I wasn't hammering nails - I would've swallowed the ones in my mouth! I feel as though General Patton and Field Marshall Montgomery just awarded me the highest honor. Coming from you both - whom I look up to - i...

The Bavarian UPS man (who's hardly seen 'round these here parts) delivered the set yesterday, way ahead of schedule. I watched all the films twice, the second time with Richard's always enlightening & enjoyable commentary. And the set? It's fabulous. Harry is wonderful. Thelma is sexy. And the c...

Here's Joe Frisco in the "Broadway" comic strip of the New York Daily News. Renowned gate-crasher One-Eyed Connolly puts in an appearance here, shortly after he won a bet that he could eat at the Horn & Hardart Automat for free (and in these photos One-Eyed could almost pass as Tammany...

Hi Ed - thanks for posting this. I saw this too at the Musee Mecanique near Fisherman's Wharf in SF. https://museemecanique.com/ Cheers, John Thanks, John! This is a good place to remind anyone who hasn't already done so, to please take a minute and post a review of the Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley, ...

Chris is so right! When you consider the serious gaps in the film career of Harry Langdon, one of the major figures of film comedy: - all of Langdon's first films for Sol Lesser are missing, save for a fragment; - a handful of his Mack Sennett shorts remain elusive; - HEART TROUBLE, Langdon's last s...

W.C., continued...

Great news for Langdon fans living in the UK and EU - Amazon USA, which last week placed a ban on shipping this set overseas, lifted the restrictions this morning. As you can see from my order, it will still take a while for delivery, but you will eventually get HARRY LANGDON AT HAL ROACH. I had con...

Just now my son was watching SAFETY LAST! and who shows up on screen but young ol' Fred Guiol, as a department store employee. Guiol through the ages!