1927's "Putting Pants on Philip" was a silent success for this first great comedy team of talking films
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Laurel and Hardy - Wikipedia  Laurel and Hardy officially became a team in 1927 when they appeared together in the silent short film Putting Pants on Philip. They remained with the Roach...
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Putting Pants On Philip is a 1927 silent short film starring American ...  Pinterest works best if you switch to our Android-friendly app ... comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, their first to bill them as an official team ... The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. ... With Love and Hisses is a 1927 silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver ..... Pillow Talk (1959).
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Laurel and Hardy | comedy team | Britannica.com  Comedy team that is widely regarded as the greatest in film history. ... He found minor success as the star of his own series of comedy shorts in the early ... late 1892; in tribute, the younger Hardy later adopted his father's first name, Oliver. ... the end of the silent era through comic gems such as Putting Pants on Philip (1927),...
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BLOTTO The Laurel and Hardy Pages - Blotto-online.com  Their brand of comedy served as a link between the era of silent character comedy, with its emphasis on aspirations to success and happiness, ... adjusting its gag structure for the more mundane pacing of sound film comedy. ... It was PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP (1927) in which the Laurel and Hardy team first flowered.
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Jeopary Questions page 1139 - IT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN ...  ACTING THE PART: 1927's "Putting Pants on Philip" was a silent success for this first great comedy team of talking films  PROFILES IN CARVAGE: She's got "A...
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Silent Movie - TCM.com  ... movie with the fewest spoken lines. In his 1976 tribute to silent slapstick comedy, there is only one word spoken, ironically by famed mime Marcel Marceau,...
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Clever Ways to Start Conversations with Nothing to Talk About  This keeps the conversation light and simple, which is especially useful for people who are still getting to know one another better. Use small talk to establish...
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Jazz Singer, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) You Ain't Heard ... - TCM.com  The big moment, in which the song (Dirty Hands, Dirty Face) and the famous first spoken words using Warner Bros' Vitaphone synchronized sound process are...
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J! Archive - Show #968, aired 1988-11-16  First performed in the 1550s, "Ralph Roister Doister" is the first known comedy in this language ... Maroon Studios star who enjoyed a Diet Coke while watching his wife, Jessica, perform...
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Buster Keaton - Film Actor, Comedian - Biography.com  Comedian and director Buster Keaton was popular for his pioneering silent comedies in the 1920s. ... Film comedian and director Buster Keaton was born on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas. ... Considered one of the groundbreaking comedians of the early film era, Joseph Frank Keaton IV was ...
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Film History Milestones - 1929 - Greatest Films  Paramount's Wings (1927) won Best Picture (based on production). ... Technicolor 'talkie' film was Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), also from Warner Bros. ... The film careers of many silent film stars ended due to their voices being unsuitable...
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Silent Era : Articles  It was ladies first this week at the 21st annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival. ... of the Griffith project, an effort to sequentially show all of D.W. Griffith's existing films. ... simple elegance, and the locals once again welcomed us to another festival. .... (Diana Serra Cary) one Hollywood's most popular child stars in the twenties.
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The Three Stooges - Wikipedia  The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid20th century, best known for their numerous Columbia short subject films which are still syndicated on television. Their hallmark was physical farce and slapstick. In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names of "Moe, ... The four made one feature film, Soup to Nuts, before Shemp left to pursue a...
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Silent Movie Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  Review: Brooks' overlooked gem - When one speaks of Mel Brooks the talk ... With only one word of dialogue -- spoken, ironically, by Marcel Marceau ... The other way he got it made serves as dramatic irony in the movie itself: "Silent Movie" is...
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Jazz Singer, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet!  ... Dirty Face) and the famous first spoken words using Warner Bros' Vitaphone synchronized sound process are delivered ... Jazz Singer, The -- (Movie Clip) You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet! ... Jezebel (1938) -- (Movie Clip) He's Always Been Mine
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1990 - 1999 - Some Of The Corpses Are Amusing  The Pythons were, quite possibly, the most inventive comic troupe ever. ..... The understanding by John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and Graham ... they should not outstay their welcome, gives this revival a marvellous freshness. ... sketches now recognised by shorthand - the dead parrot, the lumberjack, the...
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Laurel and Hardy - Wikipedia  Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of ... They appeared as a team in 107 films, starring in 32 short silent films, .... The first film pairing of the two, although as separate performers, took place in .... Academy Award for his contributions to film comedy but was unable to attend...
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Blackmail (1929) - Articles - TCM.com  Many of the first sound films were hybrids; Blackmail, which was initially planned ... dialogue was apparently added to shots that were originally filmed silent. .... distinction of being both Hitchcock's last silent film as well as his first talkie. ... which helped solidify his rapidly growing reputation as one of England's top directors.
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Acting Naturally - UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004  In 1866 Twain began his highly successful lecturing, moving his deadpan to the ... Also in 1865 and 1866, Joseph Jefferson III played his first run as the star of Rip ..... "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" is exactly right, except that the theatrical ... and devilment would inevitably attach to this piece, a story Twain later called a...
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JUST CLOWNING AROUND - GEOCITIES.ws  It was at this job that he first created the Weary Willy character as a cartoon figure. ... Circus as a trapeze artist, and in 1923 he brought his cartoon character to life as a ... He worked with the Sells-Floto and Hagenbeck-Wallace circuses until 1931 ... Weary Willy made his motion-picture debut in "The Greatest Show on Earth"...
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Abraham Lincoln (1930) directed by D.W. Griffith  Reviews, film + ...  Silent film master D.W. Griffith's first talkie works as a companion piece to his classic ... When asked who he is, Walter Huston puts his hands on his hips, puffs his...