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Today is the birthday of Henry Fonda (1905-1982). Fonda is one of my favorite movie stars. By design, he embodies a sort of American ideal. Ultimately I imagine the origin of this feeling is…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy Our Wife (1931).  In this Hal Roach short, Ollie is preparing to get married to his sweetheart. He's a…
In celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, …
Today is the day! 100 years ago, Julius, Milton, Adolph and Leonard Marx were playing poker in Galesburg, Illinois with a vaudeville monologist named Art Fisher, who, riffing on a popular co…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1921 Buster Keaton comedy The Goat. This is one of Keaton’s typical “bad luck” comedies; the title refers not to …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy The Floorwalker (1916). The Floorwalker was the first of Chaplin’s Mutual comedies and he upped his …
Today is the birthday of Stanley Lupino (1893-1942). One of the famous Lupino family of acrobats, today we remember him chiefly as the father of Ida Lupino, and the cousin of Lupino Lane and…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915). This was among the first silent films I ever saw. It came on a videotape I…
In celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, …
Today is Sir Arthur Sullivan’s birthday. I’ve already gone into raptures on this blog about G & S. They’re my favorite purveyors of musical theatre: you can read an ear…
 Not only will you not find anything else like The Pinch Brothers in the Bawdy House in Marxfest, you won’t find anything else like it on any stage in the city. You’ve …
In celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, …
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Stan Laurel comedy White Wings (1923), directed by George Jeske. White Wings was the nickname for the men who worked as street cle…
In celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, …
  Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Fatty Arbuckle short Moonshine (1918), co-starring Buster Keaton and Al St. John. This one has an odd meta thing going on, …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Wheeler and Woolsey comedy Diplomaniacs (1933). This crazy comedy was penned by Herman Mankiewicz who had written Million Dollar Legs a…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of Harold Lloyd’s The Nonstop Kid (1918). The plot of this early “glasses” comedy is simple. Harold and a half dozen…
I was planning a little mother’s day tribute for Minnie Marx today, and behold! My Marxfest colleagues made this swell card! Minnie (1865-1929) is a solid, cherished part of Marx Broth…
In celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, …
Filed under: Burlesk, Comedy, Comedy Teams, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS, VISUAL ART Tagged: burlesque, dr. sketchy's, drawing, Marx Brothers, Marxfest
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of Laurel and Hardy’s last film for a major U.S. studio The Bullfighters (1945), directed by Mal St. Clair. Like all of their fi…
In celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, …
Today is the birthday of Dolores Vallecita  a.k.a Dolly V. Hill (1877-1925). Little is known about her, aside from the fact that she was a Spanish-born animal trainer in big time vaudevil…
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, HOLIDAYS, FESTIVALS, MEMORIALS & PARADES, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS, Women Tagged: Burlesque Brunch, Highline Ballroom, Mother's Day, New York Burl…
In 1929 and 1930, the four Marx Brothers, stars of Broadway and vaudeville, made their first two talking pictures The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers at Paramount’s Astoria Studio facili…
