Today is the birthday of Anita Louise (Anita Louise Fremault, 1915-1970). Anita Louise began as a child actress in the early 1920s, briefly on Broadway but also almost immediately in films, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:30AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:47AM[SHARE]Not this one! The one above, Miss Molly Pope, is the very definition of ALIVE, which is why she was cast as the most electrifying star of the 19th century, the one and only Adah Isaacs Menke…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:41PM[SHARE]Tonight (tomorrow really) at 12:30am eastern, Turner Classic Movies will be showing the seminal 1943 MGM film version of the musical Cabin in the Sky, directed by Vincent Minnelli. Th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:37AM[SHARE]You’ve no doubt heard the name Gary Beeber here many a time. He co-produced the edition of Angie Pontani’s Burlesque-a-pades I got to direct, was the long-time producer of Gotham…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:22AM[SHARE]Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Jews/ Show Biz, Music, PLUGS Tagged: City Winery, Isle of Klezbos, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Klezmer
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12AM[SHARE]I cooked up the idea for this post several weeks ago; events in Paris this morning made me think today would be a good day to finish it up and share it. Most Americans (ranging from the fana…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:38PM[SHARE]Filed under: VISUAL ART Tagged: Charlie Hebdo
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tomorrow morning on Turner Classic Movies: Two somewhat idiosyncratic comedies from the depths of the Great Depression! 7:00am (EST) : Sidewalks of New York (1931) Buster Keaton‘s talk…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:03PM[SHARE]Last night the Mad Marchioness and myself had ourselves a double header. The first leg was the book launch event for Kevin Fitzpatrick’s new tome The Algonquin Round Table New York: A …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tonight on Turner Classic Movies, a pair of groovy hippie westerns starring Robert Redford. WARNING: the below contains spoilers! 10:15pm (EST): Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:44AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the American release date of Charlie Chaplin feature The Circus (1928). Despite being an estimable hit in its day (the 7th most successful film financially of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:29AM[SHARE]As we do every year here at Travalanche, we begin 2015 with some rough statistical and categorical analysis to try and learn what types of posts have been most successful with readers so we …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:55PM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy short Tit for Tat (1935). The film is the sequel to their earlier film Them Thar Hills. Sort of. In ac…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:35AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harry Langdon silent comedy short The Sea Squawk (1925), directed by Harry Edwards. The setting is an ocean liner at sea, where …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM[SHARE]Today marks the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy short Night Owls (1930), directed by James Parrott. The set-up: There have been 42 unsolved burglarie…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:01AM[SHARE]Filed under: Circus, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Big Apple Circus, Celebration of American Circus, Phillip Petit, West Hyler
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:11AM[SHARE]January, 1922 marked the release of Buster Keaton’s silent comedy short The Paleface.  In this western parody Buster plays an innocent butterfly collector who accidentally…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:50AM[SHARE]New Year’s Eve — what a wonderful time of year! When we have all a rare chance to start out all over again with a clean slate…and then generally use the opportunity to comm…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:39PM[SHARE]Filed under: HOLIDAYS/ FESTIVALS/ MEMORIALS/ PARADES, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Anna Copacabanna, New Year's Eve, Passenger Bar
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:15PM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy silent comedy short The Battle of the Century (1927). In addition to being very funny in its own right, this film i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:08AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the great Laurel and Hardy short Towed in a Hole (1932), directed by George Marshall. It starts out with the boys selling fish from …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:45AM[SHARE]Filed under: HOLIDAYS/ FESTIVALS/ MEMORIALS/ PARADES, Hollywood (History), PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Dances of Vice, Hollywood, New Year's Eve
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:46AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Douglas Fairbanks picture  A Modern Musketeer (1917), written and directed by Allan Dwan, based on "D’Artagnan of Kansas", …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:13PM[SHARE]2014 was a sad and violent year both at home and abroad, but we’ve already done more than our share of hollering about it from the seat of my rocking chair on my virtual front porch. I…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:00AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Eddie Cantor comedy Roman Scandals (1933), devised for him by George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood. The film is a very fu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1933 Laurel and Hardy feature Sons of the Desert, directed by William Seiter. This remains one of the all-time favorite Laurel and …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:16AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy short We Faw Down (1928), directed by Leo McCarey. This wonderful little symphony of comic incident starts w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:27AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd short From Hand to Mouth (1919). This is an interesting one. Much as Chaplin is sort of “doing Lloyd” inÂ…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:39AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Douglas Fairbanks comedy When the Clouds Roll By (1919 ) , directed by Victor Fleming. Fairbanks plays a young Wall Street worker who i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:20AM[SHARE]Tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 8pm (EST): Billy Rose’s Jumbo Sizewise, the stage original of Billy Rose’s Jumbo was the most colossal show in Broadway history. The…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:35AM[SHARE]
