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Absolutely dead on. I hadn't read that piece of Walter Kerr's writing before (another nice new pleasure of the day), but it is absolutely what I have said about Chico Marx for years, he is indeed the link between Groucho and Harpo, you seldom just see Groucho and Harpo working together, those two un...

Another thing you see with HER MAN is how good a Director Tay Garnett was, this is as smoothly and stylishly-directed a piece as RKO-Pathe' cranked out in the 29-31 era. So many of RKO's early talkies creak and slog to be nearly unwatchable. HER MAN paces well, has some terrific long moving camera s...

Reel Two went up today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS8B1xmAsOY

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A rare look at early comedian Fraunie Fraunholz in this Solax comedy directed by Alice Guy Blanche':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ByulIcyeyI

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On Sunday Night, July 5th, TCM ran as part of their Silent Sundays Program the second in a series of selections of our restorations of the 1927 Charley Chase Hal Roach shorts they have presented in the last few months, and host Jacqueline Stewart gave our set a good plug. So once again, we have done...

Amazing Kodachrome Home Movies of a good friend of Lady Sylvia Ashley and Douglas Fairbanks in the late 1930's, we get to see a lot of them and others including Charlie Chaplin, even playing tennis with Groucho Marx later on, David Niven, Kay Francis, Eddie Cantor, Constance Bennett, Binnie Barnes, ...

How's this for our 250th American Anniversary Celebration, an all-star NBC special from 1970, hosted and produced by John Wayne, celebrating our country and our country's history with an all-star cast. Talk about a blast of 1970's TV nostalgia, but where else will you ever see Bing Crosby playing Ma...

Patrick Vasey has a Kickstarter going for his new book LAUREL AND HARDY: SILENTS. It's a stunning two-volume set, presented in a beautiful centenary slipcase, celebrating Stan and Babe's silent era. Alongside a detailed history of Laurel and Hardy's career together and the development of the Hal Roa...

Jack Carson did this 1955 unaired TV pilot for a proposed series in which he plays a late-night radio DJ, it also features Jocelyn Brando, H. M. Wynant, and Joseph Kearns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euu5LNvNC8Y

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Victor Moore stars in this early talkie Paramount comedy from 1931:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQRDEoePbs

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