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Tonight at midnight, as part of their usual Silent Sundays series, Turner Classic Movies will be showing two classic Buster Keaton comedies from 1924.: The Navigator and Sherlock Jr…
Today is the birthday of Edna May Oliver (Edna May Nutter, 1883-1942). Throughout the 1930s, Oliver was an indispensable ensemble player in some of the greatest films of the decade. She was …
Today is the anniversary of the release of the Harry Langdon short All Night Long (1924). In this comedy, directed by Harry Edwards and co-written by Frank Capra, Arthur Ripley and oth…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Keystone comedy His Trysting Place. Nowadays it’s marketed as a Charlie Chaplin comedy, but what it really is, is an ensemble comedy sta…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd talking feature Feet First (1930), co-directed by Lloyd and Clyde Bruckman. Feet First was Lloyd’s first prope…
Today at 3:30pm (EST) Turner Classic Movies will be showing Charlie Chaplin’s last indisputably great movie Limelight (1952). Limelight was a victim of history twice over; …
Today is the birthday of Alice Day (Jaquiline Alice Newman, 1905-1995). While not as well known as her younger sister Marceline Day, Alice Day did make a mark of her own. She began her caree…
Opening Reception TONIGHT: Friday, November 7th, 6-9 PM  Scott Eder Gallery 18 Bridge St., Brooklyn NY If you have any doubts about whether I’m going to this, you must be Cra…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the release of the Charlie Chaplin comedy His Musical Career, co-starring Mack Swain. They play a pair of piano movers who mix up their orders (note t…
Today is the anniversary of Douglas Fairbanks’ first film The Lamb (1915). An adaptation of his most recent Broadway hit The New Henrietta, The Lamb established a formula for Fai…
Today at 5:45pm EST on Turner Classic Movies:Â The Bad Seed. This movie is significant for all sorts of reasons. One, it is based on Maxwell Anderson’s final play, which was itself b…
Today is the birthday of comedy director Edward Sedgwick (1889-1953). Originally from Galveston, Texas, Sedgwick began his career as a performing child in the family vaudeville act The Sedgw…
This song has been in my head a lot lately because one of our actors takes a shaving cream pie in the face in the current production of Dead End Dummy. It’s one I haven’t thou…
Today at 4:30pm EST , Turner Classic Movies will be showing the RKO horror classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932). This chestnut from the golden age of studio horror has fallen by …
Today is the anniversary of the hilarious Laurel and Hardy short Their First Mistake (1932), directed by none other than George Marshall In this one, Hardy is the hen-pecked husband…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the silent short Hat’s Off (1927), starring Laurel and Hardy. Part of his film was remade in 1932 as the Oscar winning sound s…
Great news for folks who missed DEAD END DUMMY at Coney Island USA during its three week run. This week, we move to the Cafe at La MaMa (a natural spiritual home for this experimental …
Today is the anniversary of the Laurel and Hardy silent comedy Two Tars (1928). In this hysterical short, the boys are two sailors on dates with a couple of girls in a rented car. The mea…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Stan Laurel ‘s one reel comedy short Just Rambling Along (1918). As of this writing Just Rambling Along is earliest ex…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd short Bumping into Broadway (1919). This is kind of unusual (and very entertaining) role for Lloyd — a struggling…
In November 1922 Buster Keaton released Daydreams, one of the last of his shorts. Daydreams strikes me as not one of the strongest of Keaton’s shorts. It’s made up of lots …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Buster Keaton comedy feature Go West (1925). While among Keaton’s more personal films, aspects of Go West feel more …
Today is the birthday of (stage and, briefly screen) star Charles King (1886-1944. Some sources say born 1889). Not to be confused with the western villain of the same name, THIS Charl…
Today is the anniversary of the release of the Laurel and Hardy comedy short One Good Turn (1931). This is one of the few of their films I've seen that deals with the Great Depression,…
Today marks the anniversary of the release date of the first movie in which Mae West appeared, Night After Night (1932). As you can see from the poster, she’s fourth billed in th…
