May and Harry... They Were So Great Together

[Chris Snowden]

Who knew that May McAvoy and Harry Langdon did silent comedies together? Look at that train in the background... this still must be from The General.

[Rob Farr]

And the scene just screams 1914. Puts me in mind of Joe Adamson's famous comment about "the Myrna Loy westerns of Alfred Hitchcock". That's what happens when a Fox publicity hack returns from a 3-martini lunch.

[Brent Walker]

And to think Snub Pollard was still working in movies in 1960 (while Langdon had been dead 15 years), while Marie Mosquini's (aka "May McAvoy") husband Lee DeForest had just won an honorary Oscar the year before! You'd think somebody at Fox's publicity department would do at least some basic fact checking in 1960.