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Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harry Langdon comedy The Hansom Cabman (1924), directed by Harry Edwards. In this one, Harry is a groom-to-be (his famous …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd comedy short Pay Your Dues (1919). This is one of the first Lloyd shorts (maybe the first?) I ever saw. One tends to di…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Harold Lloyd’s first talking feature Welcome, Danger (1929), co-directed by Clyde Bruckman and Mal St. Clair. Welcome Danger w…
Today is the birthday of Karl Dane (Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb, 1886-1934), who for four years was paired in a comedy team with George K. Arthur (1899-1985). Dane had been a manual l…
October 13 (tomorrow) at 7pm, you’ll have a chance to come hear my new play being read at Baruch College for FREE — last chance before it makes its official world premiere at La …
Tomorrow at 9:30 am (EST), Turner Classic Movies will be showing a picture that’s long been on my must-see list: the original version of One Million B.C. (1940), directed and pro…
Filed under: Horror (Mostly Gothic), PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: NYC Zombie Crawl
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the all-star camp romp The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940). Why this hoot of a movie didn’t make it into the canon of comedy clas…
Today is the birthday of Mickey Daniels (1914-1970). The nephew of actress Bebe Daniels and the son of a pair of actor parents, Daniels began his career as one of the first group of kids in …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of W.C. Fields’ last and craziest starring vehicle Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941). The film is virtually plotless stream-of…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s first feature film The Round Up (1920). Arbuckle was one of the first of the slapstick comed…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of one of Charlie Chaplin’s best Keystone comedies, Those Love Pangs. In this comedy, it’s rutting season. In the opening section Charlie…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of The Lucky Dog (1921). This is the first film which features the talents of both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, although it is six years befo…
Today is the anniversary of the Laurel and Hardy comedy Great Guns (1941). This is the team’s first comedy for 20th Century Fox (following 13 years working for the man who put th…
In side shows, the “blow off” is the promised added attraction that lures you to the egress. It usually turns out to be lame, but it’s too late — you can’t go b…
Tomorrow morning at 7:30 Turner Classic Movies will be showing Sally (1929), Marilyn Miller’s first film, one of only three she made before her untimely death in 1936 (for more o…
Tonight I will have the rare privilege of being one of the few people on earth to come home from his job at the FREAK SHOW to go watch the premiere episode AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SH…
Today is the anniversary of the silent comedy short The Second Hundred Years (1927), starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. This is an interesting one, because the two men were not yet…
I recently realized that June of 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of my first trip out to Coney Island. When I made that venturesome daytrip in 1989, Â I’d only been living in NYC fo…
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Betty paige, Gemini and Scorpio, Kita St. Cyr, The Art of Paigie
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy short Busy Bodies (1933). Busy Bodies is one of my favorite Laurel and Hardy movies, it is so chock full of gags, a…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the landmark Warner Brothers motion picture The Jazz Singer (1927) starring Al Jolson. The fame of this film is perhaps greater than…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy Early to Bed (1928). The film is semi-silent. Very early in the sound era, it has a musical score, and some …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the great Buster Keaton short The Play House (1921). The Play House is most famous for its existential first half, in which Kea…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Mae West’s I’m No Angel (1933).  I’m No Angel was the follow up to West’s smash hit She Done Him Wrong,…
