The Raymond Griffith comedy You’d Be Surprised (1926) is not as well-known as his other starring features. That’s not saying…
A Baby Peggy Rediscovery — or: When “Circus Clowns” Doesn’t Mean “Circus Clowns” I was pretty much set with additional…
I’ve been seeing items posted online over the last few months commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passing by Congress…
A Rare Comedy Short Made When the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread Was Still Sliced Bread A CBS Sunday Morning…
I read silent movie title cards and letter insert shots faster than most people in the audience do. I have…
I should know if Harry Watson, Jr. and Marion Davies appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies together (alas, for the moment,…
Several decades before Netflix offered home viewers of Hollywood films the opportunity to order-rent them by mail on DVD, the…
When the Thomas Edison Company set out to make its sound films in 1913, preservation wasn’t necessarily what they were…
Marcel Perez kept revising his onscreen persona and his character’s name throughout his career. His years working in the U.S.…
There were two main types of feature-length comedies made during the silent era. There were the slapstick ones, which sputtered…