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The guy over at Nitratevile who has been scanning his 35mm nitrate fragments posted two new ones yesterday: http://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18051 The ones that do not have Sessue Hayakawa, but have Otto Fries and Joseph Belmont appear to be from the 1928 Pathe' Smitty Comedy CAMPING ...

Just re-watched Mississippi . Only he could make the repetition of the "...wall of human flesh..." business funnier each time he repeats it. I read the Louvish book a few years ago. Is this the best available on Fields? No, James Curtis's book, simply called W. C. FIELDS is the one to get...

It's high time I re-watched this. My favourite Fields from the mid-30's would be You're Telling me and The Old Fashioned Way . Mississippi is a film I've seen once only. Incidentally, for any UK mafiosi on here, this set is the bizness: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-W-C-Fields-Collection-DVD/dp/B000V...

Thinking back on it now, I just may have been introduced to Orson Welles by his appearances on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW. He made a number of them, and they were frequently nice classy bits like this one, imagine anyone performing Shakespeare on a Variety show, even if those still existed, on Network Tel...

To quote one of Groucho Marx’s frequent generic punchlines to any sort of set-up, “well, it’s about time”. I received this set yesterday and it is everything one would hope for and more. An awful lot of folk out there these days probably only know the Marx Brothers from the bakers dozen movies they ...

Gary Johnson wrote:I loved Welles' magic tricks that he performed on radio during the war years.

Along with W. C. Field's radio juggling.


RICHARD M ROBERTS (That's as silly as a ventriloquist on radio!)

Richard, I think you are being intentionally taunted here. Are you sure that this Mr. Reagan hasn't been sent over from N-Ville to get your goat? Or worse yet, from the John Wayne Looneys?? Oh, MIchael's okay, if not perhaps my go-to person on rating comedians. RICHARD M ROBERTS ( Now--- go away or...

It's only devastating news for those who have been living under a rock. Ever since the DVD format has came along anyone with half a brain can see that the high quality products that were being released by.....say a company like KINO, should suddenly appear in tact from an entirely different entity,...

Richard M Roberts wrote:

Mike O'Regan wrote:


Aww, come on MIke, there must be other comedians you dislike, don't tell me you've seen them all?



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Nope. That's it....and I've seen 'em all, kid.

So, which is your favorite Smiling Billy Mason?

Dedec Valde?

George Clarke.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

An exciting discovery; this one could be hiding in plain sight in a can that everyone assumes is an Our Gang short. I hope many prints were struck. Dave Denton said the same thing to me the other night, all archives should immediately check their cans marked "Mail and Female" now to make ...