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Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy feature Our Relations (1936). While still farcical this is one of the team’s more sophisticated plots –…
Originally posted on Photographs, film, literature & qoutes from the bygone era:Lola Montez or Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld, was an Irish courtesan, act…
Today (just in time for Halloween) is the anniversary of the original German premiere of the pathbreaking silent horror classic Der Golem, wie er die Welt kam (1920). The film is the t…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1922 Hal Roach short The Ropin’ Fool, starring the great Will Rogers (see my full bio on him here)  A lot of peopl…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Eddie Cantor comedy Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937). This movie, while plenty funny, marks the end of Cantor’s flush period as a …
 Today marks the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin/ Keystone comedy Gentlemen of Nerve. This is one of what I call the ad hoc/ improv type silent comedies, …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Comique comedy Coney Island (1917). In this classic comedy short, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Al St. John take turns dating…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s last indisputably great movie Limelight (1952). Limelight was a victim of history twice over; if not for two …
WE’RE HAVING A HALLOWEEN EVENT!! Anyone who comes to the Halloween Show of DEAD END DUMMY at Coney Island USA this Friday dressed in a costume, gets a $3 discount on their …
Today is the anniversary of the release of the Mabel Normand feature The Extra Girl (1923), produced by Mack Sennett. Mabel plays a small town girl who wants to go into films and h…
Today is the anniversary of the release of the very  funny Stan Laurel comedy Frozen Hearts (1923). This little comedy is obscure in more ways than one. It appears to be a parody of…
Today is the anniversary of the release of the Buster Keaton short Convict 13 (1920), co-directed by Eddie Cline. Keaton’s second released short, Convict 13, picks up on a…
Today is the 100th anniversary of the release of the Charlie Chaplin comedy Dough and Dynamite. In this Keystone short, Charlie and Chester Conklin are rival waiters at a restaurant. The …
Today is the anniversary of the release of the Comique comedy short The Hayseed (1919), starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. This is one of the last and best of…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd feature Hot Water (1924), co-directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. Hot Water is less like a feature-length story than …
Today is the release date of the 1926 silent feature So’s Your Old Man (1926) starring W.C. Fields and directed by Gregory La Cava. If you’ve already seen the 1934 talkieÂ…
The current production the ventrilooquialcentric Dead End Dummy has prompted me to add to the ventriloquism section of Travalanche. We already have most of the best known ventriloquist…
Today is the birthday of the legendary Jerry Lewis impersonator Sammy Petrillo (1934-2007), best known for his one starring movie role, in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952). …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Never Weaken (1921), one of the last of Harold Lloyd’s shorts, and one of the best of his so-called “thrill comedies”,…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (1917), his last film on his Mutual contract, and one of his funniest, best-made flat-out comedie…
Today is the birthday of the great Louis Marshall “Grandpa” Jones (1913-1998). Most of us known Grandpa Jones as one of the anchors of the tv variety series Hee Haw from 1969 …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s seminal World War One comedy Shoulder Arms (1918). Shoulder Arms (initially called Camouflage), was first pla…
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Today is the anniversary of the release date of the silent Laurel and Hardy comedy Bacon Grabbers (1929). In this film (not one of their most inventive) the pair play repo men for the …
Tomorrow morning at 11am, New York’s Film Forum will be screening the Harry Langdon comedy The Strong Man (1926), the very first feature film directed by Frank Capra. In T…
