29th June 2022
Working mainly on the Margaret Rutherford 'Miss Marple' films today.
28th June 2022
Working mainly on the Margaret Rutherford 'Miss Marple' films today.
27th June 2022
Working mainly on the Margaret Rutherford 'Miss Marple' films today.
26th June 2022
Working mainly on the Margaret Rutherford 'Miss Marple' films today.
25th June 2022
23rd June 2022
Watched 'Melvin and Howard (1980)'. Several actors who qualify for this blog were in it including Jason Robards Jr., Michael J. Pollard, Gloria Grahame, Charlene Holt and Herbie Faye. I will add them soon.
16th June 2022
A few months ago I watched the Margaret Rutherford films 'Murder She Said (1961)', 'Murder at the Gallop (1963)', 'Murder Most Foul (1964)' and 'Murder Ahoy (1964)' in which she plays Miss Marple from the Agatha Christie novels. Today I began to add the pictures from these films.
15th June 2022
Added the pictures from 'Another Fine Mess (1930)' today.
There
is an excellent website that helps me put together this blog. The site
is dedicated to all things concerning Hal Roach Studios; the films, the
actors and the locations and anything else related to those films. Have a
look at
Another Nice Mess to find more details about some of the actors here.
Watched 'The Gibson Goddess (1909)' and re-watched 'Her First Biscuits (1909)'.
Re-watched 'The Country Doctor (1909)'.
13th June 2022
Don't often add actors from television shows at the moment, but I stumbled upon a show from 1956 called Private Secretary.
12th June 2022
Watched 'Another Fine Mess (1930)'
again, but this time with my son, who likes Laurel and Hardy and has
seen many of the shorts. Also, I've never watched it before with the
intention of adding the actors to the blog.
9th June 2022
Finished watching 'Made for Love (1926)' thank goodness. Very boring. Several unidentified actors have a featured role. One is suggested to be Malcolm Denny (Reginald Denny's brother) but I need to find another film of his to confirm before he is entered into this blog.
7th June 2022
Often, I go back to a film I've seen before to find the actors I missed the first time around. This was the case today with 'Back Door to Heaven (1939)',
a film I first watched several years ago. The Louis Morrison error I
mentioned on 31st May 2022 was in this film, which prompted me to have
another look at it.
5th June 2022
Watched a short silent comedy 'Pep Up (1929)' today starring Cliff Bowes. This is a light comedy with very little storyline. Cliff Bowes reminds me of Glenn Tryon of Hal Roach Studios and the comedy is just as weak. It was lovely to see Adrienne Dore for the first time. Also, Bobby Barber appears briefly in one of his earliest films.
As usual, plenty of extras to sift through to see if I recognise any of them. Unlikely, though.
3rd June 2022
Started watching the silent feature 'Made for Love (1926)'
properly today. It's a difficult watch because it is so boring, but I
will get through it one of these days. Lots of slow movement from
Leatrice Joy in close up. Not very engaging. I only watched it because
Leatrice Joy was in it, but she was dull.
31st May 2022
Watched '
The Unholy Three (1925)' in its entirety for the first time. Previously I dipped into the film to look for
Harry Earles
in his baby costume to compare this version with the sound version from
1930. This is one of those situations where I tell people I love
Lon Chaney and then realise I've only seen two of his films. It a realisation that happens to me more often than not. Another example was
Humphrey Bogart. I really liked him, but I had only seen one of his films all the way through. I've now put that right and still like him.
This was a superior film for 1925, in my opinion, particularly for the performances of Chaney and Mae Busch.
My dilemma with this and other films is whether to add people to the
blog who are not particularly actors, like the fat lady or human
skeleton that appear at the beginning. From the offset, however, I have
always maintained in my own mind that this blog was more about the
supporting actors, extras and others who appear in the films and less
about the stars, even though it is fun adding them all. There is only
one sword swallower in the film and I don't know which one he is, so I
have left him out for now. Apparently, Marjorie Morton plays Mrs.
Arlington. The lady I presume who was this character was almost
completely obscured facially. Therefore I've not included her in the
blog. Her other films are not available to me. I don't remember seeing
the 'Wild Borneo Man' in the film, so John Millerta has not been added.
New actors added:
Mickey McBan,
Carrie Clark Ward,
Alice Jullian,
Mary Angus,
Margie Angus,
Carrie Daumery,
Charles Wellesley,
John Merkyl,
Edward Connelly,
William Humphrey,
Louis Shank,
Violet N. Cane,
Percy Williams,
Vera Vance, and
Walter P. Cole (added 1st June).
I made a correction to
Louis Morrison's
post. The previous entry was wrong and has been removed. This is why I
like to watch more than one film of a particular actor.
I
rely heavily on other researchers' information for actors such as Louis
Shank who was not in many films that we know of, which therefore makes
confiming his identity nigh on impossible.
There was a lot of extras in this film. I would love to identify some of them.
Had a quick look at the beginning of '
Made for Love (1929)'. Added
Edmund Burns to the blog.
Watched the surviving fragments of the otherwise
lost film '
The Way of All Flesh (1927)'. An impressive performance from Emil Jannings for which he won the very first 'best actor' Academy Award.
30th May 2022
Finished watching '
Too Many Kisses (1926)'.
Decided to continue watching films newly entered into the Public Domain
this year. The main reason for watching this particular film was so
that I could identify the previously mentioned
Arthur Ludwig and hopefully also add his inclusion in '
Old Ironsides (1926)'. Too Many Kisses was an enjoyable film even though the plot was extremely thin. I think this is first time I've seen
William Powell in a silent film.
I have newly identified
Lois Moran in '
Too Many Kiss (1926)'. Her appearance is brief in the office scene early in the film.
27th May 2022
I was looking for Arthur Ludwig but I didn't know what he looked like. As for the Fred Kohler
identification, I am still only 99% sure it's him. I need to see some
other films of his from that era. There is a moment in the film when Spec O'Donnell
exclaims 'Ain't fightin' great!' and a minute later it appears that he
is killed in battle, but then appears in close up again a few minutes
after this.
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