12,232 stories from Trav S.D.
Today is the anniversary of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy The Waiters’ Ball (1916). This Keystone comedy is kind of a dry run for Arbuckle’s later movie…
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Illusionists, PLUGS, Vaudeville etc. Tagged: magic, mind reading, Mystique Boutique, Red Room
By now you’ve gotten the word that Eli Wallach (1915-2014) has passed away. He was 98. This would make him about 17 when the Palace presented its last two-a-day. I am often given to sa…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Laurel and Hardy comedy County Hospital (1932), directed by James Parrott. I think of this movie as the archetypical “…
Today is the birthday of actor/singer/performer Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998). Hayes started out performing in the vaudeville act of his mother Grace Hayes (including the Palace in an …
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the perfect Douglas Fairbanks comedy Wild and Woolly (1917). This is one of Fairbanks’ Anita Loos-John Emerson vehicles. Doug…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Mack Sennett film A Dash Through the Clouds (1912). Several different features make this short interesting (if not funny precis…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of one of the all-time classic Laurel and Hardy shorts, Going Bye-Bye (1934). This is the one where Laurel and Hardy antagonize a mons…
Of all the great monsters of the imagination (demons, werewolves, vampires, etc) in the cinema witches have traditionally gotten the short end of the broomstick. They ought to be uncanny and…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the early  Harry Langdon short comedy His New Mamma (1924), directed by Roy Del Ruth. This film is one of the handful Langdo…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy Work. This is an interesting example of Charlie the low comedian: in his early years there were many times…
Filed under: HOLIDAYS, FESTIVALS, MEMORIALS & PARADES, PLUGS Tagged: Coney Island, Mermaid Parade
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd comedy Professor Beware (1938). Much like the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd had several “last films”. Hi…
 Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of Mabel’s Married Life, directed by Mack Sennett and starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. In this film Charlie pl…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious Charley Chase short Fluttering Hearts (1927). It’s more than  a Chase comedy though, it’s really an en…
Today is the anniversary of the release of the classic W.C. Fields comedy Poppy (1936), directed by Eddie Sutherland. This film is based on the 1923-24 hit Broadway play that had b…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Charlie Chaplin short The Immigrant (1917). Nowadays the film is almost always talked about in terms of its social commentar…
Today at 5:30pm E.S.T. on TCM, one of the favorite movies of my childhood, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). The Wizard of Oz reigned supreme, of course, but the slot for my second fa…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin film Sunnyside (1919). Sunnyside is a sort of bucolic idyll, or a parody of one, with a rural setting we associ…
As you’ve heard me crow for months, we are in the centennial year of Charlie Chaplin’s motion picture debut. New York’s Anthology Film Archives is acknowledging that benchm…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1925 Mack Sennett comedy Super Hooper Dyne Lizzies, directed by Del Lord, and written by Frank Capra, Felix Adler, et al. Though a come…
Just got word that Carla Laemmle passed away yesterday. Her passing severs one of the last links to a great age. Born in 1909, she was the niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemm…
Filed under: PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Governor's Island, Jazz Age Lawn Party
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Hal Roach comedy Long Fliv the King (1926). Directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charley Chase, the film is essentially a remake of …
 Today is the anniversary of the release of the Douglas Fairbanks adventure comedy The Mollycoddle (1920). Directed by Victor Fleming, this is one of the better of Doug’s pre…
