Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Even as we speak we are in the midst of  Day #5 of Turner Classic Movies month long salute to the Hollywood western (see yesterday’s post here). Every Tuesday and Wednesday in…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:57AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of the late Arthur Rankin, Jr (1924-2014), one half of the famous animation production duo Rankin-Bass. I would have blogged about him anyway, being such a huge fan of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
Every Tuesday and Wednesday in July Turner Classic Movies will  be showing westerns the entire day, for a total of 100 movies in all. The times below are all Eastern Standard Time, and be…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:27PM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Lupe Velez (read more about the talented and gorgeous Latin star here). A fitting day, we think to do this little post on her last (and today, best known) care…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:14AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Jane Frazee (Mary Jane Frehse, 1918-1985). Jane started out in show business at age six in a vaudeville act with her older sister Ruth called the Frazee Sister…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:14AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of illustrator, cartoonist and animator Henry “Hy” Mayer (1868-1954). Originally from Germany, he began his career as an illustrator in Munich, then worked …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2016
Tomorrow is comedian Red Skelton’s birthday. Turner Movie Classics will mark the occasion by screening his films throughout the day. I am grateful for this particular line-up, as it co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 16, 2016
Today is the birthday of Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939). Gibbons is an example of the true scope of variety possible in big time vaudeville. He was a a journalist (most famous as a war correspond…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2016
Exciting things afoot for comedy fans in NYC. My buddy Steve Massa has helped organized a series of screenings at MOMA of films by the great comic auteur Leo McCarey, starting tonight with L…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tickets for the 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival go on sale today. My hat goes off to its co-founder and director Elena K. Holy at this auspicious benchmark. My admirati…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
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SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Even as we speak we are in the midst of  Day #3 of Turner Classic Movies month long salute to the Hollywood western (see yesterday’s post here). Every Tuesday and Wednesday in…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:25AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2016
Every Tuesday and Wednesday in July Turner Classic Movies will  be showing westerns the entire day, for a total of 100 movies in all. Here is tomorrow’s line-up.  The times below…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s The Vagabond (1916). The Vagabond was a great leap forward in terms of Chaplin’s story telling artistry…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Marguerite Sylva (Marguerite Smith, 1875-1957). Sylva was born in Brussels to a father of English parentage; her father was the Royal Court Physician. She and sister…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 9, 2016
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Hollywood (History), Movies, PLUGS, VISUAL ART Tagged: Cartoon Carnival, City Reliquary, Tommy Stathes
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:26AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Broadway and Hollywood writer/ director/ producer William Anthony McGuire (1881-1940). McGuire has no obvious vaudeville connection, but his career touched so many o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:25AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
Coming up tonight on TCM: several highly entertaining movies co-starring Olivia de Havilland. Warning: we always include spoilers: 8:00pm (EST): In This Our Life (1942) I am especially fond …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:25PM[SHARE]I was just about to leave for The Iron Heel rehearsal yesterday when I heard that protests about the Baton Rouge and Minnesota killings were taking place at Union Square, only a couple of bl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
Tomorrow afternoon (Eastern times) Turner Movie Classics will be presenting three classic Charlie Chaplin movies. As a lead-in, almost to whet your appetite before the big feast, they’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:45AM[SHARE]The Bowery Alliance of Neighbors has just launched their terrific new “Windows on the Bowery”” project, to which I was honored to contribute in a small way. To learn all ab…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2016
I have been having great fun rehearsing my role(s) in Untitled Theater Company #61’s latest production, an adaptation of Jack London’s forgotten 1908 dystopian/utopian novel T…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Even as we speak we are in the midst of  Day #1 of Turner Classic Movies month long salute to the Hollywood western (see yesterday’s post here). Every Tuesday and Wednesday in Ju…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:32AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Jack “Moose” Farrell (1857-1914). Farrell was a second baseman for such teams as the Syracuse Stars and the Providence Grays before retiring from t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:13AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Sarah Siddons (Sarah Kemble, 1755-1831). Mrs. Siddons, as she was usually styled after the fashion of the times, is a legendary figure in theatre history. She was th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 4, 2016
Tomorrow Turner Classic Movies will be launching what amounts to a survey course in the Hollywood western. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in July they will  be showing westerns the entire da…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:49AM[SHARE]Happy Fourth of July! Once again we share the famous Trumbull painting to commemorate the signing of the document that made America’s political separation from Great Britain official. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AM[SHARE]I could learn nothing about Jolly Ema beyond what it tells on this postcard, and the weight they give (if it does indeed say 620 lbs) is probably a matter of creative interpretation. But thi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Bernard “Bunny” Granville (1886-1936). Granville was a comedian in vaudeville; he played the Palace in the very first year of its existence, and again, a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:15AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Anna Chandler (1884-1957). Pennsylvania native Chandler was only 16 years old when she married Keith-Albee booker Jack Curtis Sr. For the next 30+ years she was to b…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
Tomorrow on TCM at 1:30pm (EST), a screening of the 1959 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple. I’ve seen this movie a couple of times now (af…
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