Today is the anniversary of the release of the Ben Turpin comedy The Shriek of Araby (1923). Turpin was one of Mack Sennett’s biggest stars during the period between his retention of the giants of the teens (Chaplin, Normand, Arbuckle) and his hiring of Harry Langdon in 1924. A crude sort of comedy was often mined out […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:57AM on March 5, 2014