This silent screen comedian came out of retirement to act in a 1947 film "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock"
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Harold Lloyd - Wikipedia  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893  March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films. ... Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his...
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Nothing But Trouble: Movie Crazy (1932) by matthew c. hoffman ...  May 27, 2011 ... His next three films, The Cat's Paw, The Milky Way (directed by Leo ... to retire because except for Professor Beware in 1938, his sound films ... weaves the silent comedy technique of visual gags into a sound film. ... One of the criticisms that came up in our post-Movie Night talk was the on again/off again...
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Preston Sturges | Travalanche  For this 1947 film Sturges persuaded Lloyd to come out of retirement nine years ... The film is also a Who's Who of great character comedians of the era ... For more on silent and slapstick comedy please check out my new book: .... the 1947 film The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (later retitled Mad Wednesday). .... ACTS (3,789).
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Harold Lloyd - Biography - IMDb  The pair were soon broke when his father suggested he try out for a job on a movie ... His final silent film, Speedy (1928), shot on location in New York, was one of the ... a first-rate vehicle for him entitled, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). ... He did release 2 compilation films, of which the first, World of Comedy (1962)...
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Sturges Goes Independent: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)  Aug 25, 2009 ... Sturges was to direct The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, a comedy luring Harold Lloyd out of retirement, ... Both films were later re-edited and re-shot by Hughes. ... This sarcastic sequence is not only a biting comment on the idea of upward mobility, it also acts as a metaphor for the fate of the silent comedian.
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Mel Blanc - Wikipedia  Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908  July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor, actor, .... They last appeared together on a Johnny Carson Tonight Show in January ... The Mel Blanc Show, which ran from September 3, 1946, to June 24, 1947. .... A doctor who once examined Blanc's throat found that he possessed...
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60 years later,Hollywood Blacklist is remembered | Scripps Howard ...  Dec 14, 2007 ... WASHINGTON  In the early 1950s,Walter Bernstein couldn't get a job. ... Sixty years after the list emerged,Hollywood veterans gathered to talk about the ... belonged to a girlfriend of a friend who had always wanted to be a writer. ... In 1947,Hunt joined other motion picture stars,including Humphrey Bogart...
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George Burns, Straight Man And Ageless Wit, Dies at 100 - The New ...  Mar 10, 1996 ... George Burns, the cigar-puffing comedian who was the best comic ... Mr. Burns made a triumphant movie comeback in Neil Simon's "The ... Award as best supporting actor, a coup that led to new film roles. ... playing bad theaters and thinking you were good if you played a ... There was a sequel, "Oh, God!
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The Perils of Pauline (1947) - Notes - TCM.com  Notes about The Perils of Pauline, 1947, directed by George Marshall, with Betty ... Pearl White, the actress on whose life this film is based, was the star of that serial. ... Paul Panzer, who appeared as the villain in the 1914 The Perils of Pauline, ... Farnum is shown in a barroom brawl scene with veteran silent actors Francis...
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Celebrating Seniors  Mel Brooks Turns 90 - Senior City  Jun 28, 2016 ... He branched out into stand-up comedy and acting on stage, as well ... sit-com Get Smart (1965) starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. ... Brooks also co-created the sit-com parody When Things Were Rotten (1975), ... short-lived television satirical comedy series The Nutt House (1989) with Alan Spencer...
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Silent Movie (1976) - IMDb  Comedy ... Directed by Mel Brooks. With Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar. ... Silent Movie (1976) 1 sheet Silent Movie (1976)  15 photos | 221 news...
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Gaslight (1944)  The Blonde at the Film  Oct 29, 2013 ... Seventeen-year-old Angela Lansbury makes her film debut as a saucy ... starring Ingrid Bergman (Notorious, Spellbound), Charles Boyer (How to ... in 1941, and the play was made into a British film in 1939, though it's hard to see ... She blushes and demurs at his proposal, and he is, shall we say, insistent.
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Full text of "Inside Facts of Stage and Screen (March 22, 1930)"  Already certain legit performers have been badly taken l by being forced into adverse ... Happy Days, Fox Grandeur film at the Carthay Circle, also tobogganed down, ..... The idea started when the stu- dio contemplated putting out a former silent ... CORRIGAN IN CAST Emmett Corrigan, actor and con- ductor of a casting...
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Good News (1947) - IMDb  Comedy  At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane ..... Mel Torm's vocals were not featured on the MGM soundtrack album. ... Great MGM color musical from 1947 that boasts terrific performances from ... Allyson and Lawford have so much fun in the "Varsity Drag" number on a...
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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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The Lost Roles of John Belushi - Splitsider  Mar 3, 2011 ... At the time of his tragic and untimely death in 1982, John Belushi was ... He was not only an accomplished comedic actor, but also a ... He would have played Arthur Bach, an alcoholic playboy who is the ... as two morgue employees who run a bordello out of their workplace at night. .... No, of course not.
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Nine Hollywood Family Dynasties That Passed Acting Through ...  Jul 8, 2014 ... His sister Ethel Barrymore, born in 1879, acted on Broadway for 30 ... Chaplin was notorious for his sexual appetites, pursuing married women and teenaged girls, ... as a famous D.J. who has played extras in several of his family's films. ... still best remembered for his role in the iconic 1969 film Easy Rider.
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Bit Part Actors: Francis X. Bushman 'The King of the Movies'  Mar 16, 2011 ... His name was Francis X. Bushman (1883 - 1966) and he is almost forgotten today. ... In Ben Hur we also see Betty Bronson (1906 - 1971) who played the first ... who made a living as a Bit Actor and extra in over 430 films from 1911 (at ... 1941) vehicle called The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, and his last...
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Sherlock Holmes from Rathbone and Brett to Cumberbatch and ...  Jul 4, 2015 ... The recently departed Christopher Lee played Holmes in a 1962 German ... John Barrymore (the first movie-star Holmes, in 1922) to Basil Rathbone, ... did Roger Moore, Charlton Heston and, perhaps most improbably, Larry Hagman. ... When Brett died of a heart attack in 1995, aged 61, veteran New York...
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Harold Lloyd - Biography - IMDb  His final silent film, Speedy (1928), shot on location in New York, was one of the few major ... a serious decline in Lloyd's screen persona; he became a talking comedian. ... Recently his granddaughter published an elaborate book of photos carefully ... In 1928 Lloyd had already written his own autobiography "An American...
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Arthur Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  Arthur and Linda's chemistry adds electricity to the rest of the film. ... It's a shame the late Dudley Moore passed away last month (March 2002). ... It's the type of role he could play in his sleep, but Gielgud makes Hobson such a truly ... "races cars, plays tennis, fondles women, but he has weekends off and he's his own boss.