Sunday, April 20, 2014
Today is the birthday of motion picture pioneer Sigmund Lubin (Siegmund Lubszynski, 1851-1923). originally an optometrist, he invented his own version of the movie camera/ projector apparatu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:29AM[SHARE]Â Today is the birthday of Sidney Lanfield (1898-1972). Lanfield was a jazz musician and comedian in vaudeville before being hired as a gag writer for silent comedies by the Fox Film Corp…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:04AM[SHARE] Today marks the 100 anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy Twenty Minutes of Love. This one is notable for being the first movie Charlie had a hand in directin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of Buster Keaton’s The High Sign (1921). Technically The High Sign was Keaton’s first solo film, but he was dissatis…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AM[SHARE] Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Mabel at the Wheel. There are all sorts of reasons this film is noteworthy. * This is one of the early films…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
 Today is the birthday of Fay Tincher (1884-1983). One of the many high points of Steve Massa’s recent book Lame Brains and Lunatics is an entire chapter on this star, and she r…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box (1932), considered by many to be the greatest comedy of all time. Its virtues are strictly f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:13AM[SHARE]  Today is the anniversary of the Charlie Chaplin short The Cure (1917). The Cure is one of the perfect comedies the comedian made for the Mutual Film Corporation, a perio…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:53AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy classic Way Out West (1937).  This charming genre spoof has Stan and Olllie pair delivering the deed to a m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Teddy at the Throttle (1917). In addition to being highly funny in places, this film has multiple points of int…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:07AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
  Today is the birthday of Gloria Jean (Schoonover) (b. 1926). No, she’s not a mash-up of Laura Brannigan and Michael Jackson songs! As any classic comedy fan can tell you, s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:03PM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Charlie Chaplin comedy A Dog’s Life (1918), made for First National. A Dog’s Life is a longer, more a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s landmark comedy short The Tramp (1915). Though this was Chaplin’s 38th comedy, this was the first one…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
Today marks the anniversary of the release date of one of my favorite movies, Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Suggested by Orson Welles, Verdoux is Chapli…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Today is the birthday of the great character Eugene Pallette (1889-1954). Pallette is very well known to film buffs for his indispensable parts in the ensembles of classic movies like My …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:03AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Stan Laurel short Hickory Hiram (1918). This was one of Laurel’s earliest films, made for Universal’s Nestor brand. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:13AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of a particular favorite of many New York City loving silent comedy fans, Harold Lloyd’s Speedy (1928). Counterintuitively, g…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release of the Buster Keaton feature Spite Marriage (1929), directed by Edward Sedgwick. Spite Marriage is considered Keaton's last silent film, al…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:48AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd short A Sammy in Siberia (1919). This film is something of a rarity: a silent comedy set against the backdrop of t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:37AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Peter Robinson (1874-1947), best known as the human skeleton in Tod Browning’s movie Freaks (1932). While he was married to a bearded lady in that film, in …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
Just a quick note to say we stopped by Barbes last night to catch an installment of Opera on Tap’s developmental series New Brew. We were particularly impressed by the work-in–pr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AM[SHARE]Â Today is the birthday of Grady Sutton (1906-1995). A native of Chatanoooga, Tennessee, Sutton specialized in mama’s boys, simpering sophomores, whiny sons-in-law, rubes in the big…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:55AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd feature For Heaven's Sake (1926). Directed by Sam Taylor, this comedy casts Harold in his callow young rich man mode,…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:57AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Harold Lloyd‘s  last feature The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (later retitled Mad Wednesday), directed by Preston Sturges.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:46PM[SHARE] Today marks the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin short The Star Boarder, directed by George Nichols. This is a terrific early comedy. Nice strong situatio…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:27PM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of funny silent comedy short Dog Shy (1926), starring Charley Chase and directed by Leo McCarey. Charley plays a guy who is so terrifi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:15PM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious Laurel and Hardy short Laughing Gravy (1931). It's brutally cold outside and snowing. Laurel and Hardy are in bed. Laure…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:13AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release of Air Raid Wardens (1943), one of Laurel and Hardy’s last and worst features. Made for MGM and directed by Eddie Sedgwick, the fi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date Charlie Chaplin’s last two-reel short, Pay Day (1922) Pay Day resembles another late Chaplin short A Day’s Pleasure (19…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:47AM[SHARE] Hello and welcome again to Vaudephone, your one stop shopping for all the best contemporary variety acts, viewed through our patented retroscope. Today we feature the Bindlestiff …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:30AM[SHARE] Today is the birthday of Jules Vernon (1867 " 1937). Vernon was an Oxford educated music hall and vaudeville performer who specialized in ventriloquism. His act consisted of him inte…
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