Harry Langdon for Swift Premium

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Harry Langdon for Swift Premium

Postby Ed Watz » Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:43 pm

With the theme of comedians (and Louise Brooks! - many thanks, Robert) appearing in comic strips, the following fits right in, and it just fell into my lap - literally.

I was looking in a Kalton Lahue book this morning, and a yellowed clipping fell out - Harry Langdon & Lita Chevret in a pose from THE BIG FLASH, used as advertising for Swift's Premium Beef Briskets. Forty-five years ago my Grandfather saw it in The Daily News and he clipped it for me. It's a cliché, but my memory of this seems like only yesterday. Next I located the complete ad online in The New York Daily News, included here as well.

Harry & Lita THE BIG FLASH.jpeg
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Sept 8 1975 NYDN.jpeg
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"Of course he smiled -- just like you and me." -- Harold Goodwin, on Buster Keaton (1976)

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