This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media in February 2013. Today is the birthday of the great silent comedian Mack Swain (1876-1935). Of Mormon stock (his real name was Moroni) Swain had [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:16AM on February 16, 2013