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Movie Premier in 1916.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Comedy
Languages: English
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:300 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:18 December 1916, USA:15 March 1920
In movie played:
Eddie Dunn (actor)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Birth Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth Name: Dunn, Edward Frank
Supporting entertainer inwardly bountiful Hollywood films from the 1910s. Worked in place of duty of a gagman and occasional superintendent at Hal Roach studios; he co-directed several Charley Chase the a cry haunch. Also, Dunn sometimes appear in Laurel & Hardy films at Roach; and also alongside 'W.C. Fields' (qv) and 'Charles Chaplin' (qv).
Death Date: 5 May 1951
Birth Date: 31 March 1896
Hughie Mack (actor)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 October 1927, pg. 497, "Obituary", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 21 July 1915, pg. 19:2, "In the Picture Studios [confessed to weight of 344 lbs.]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 October 1914, pg. 343, "Hughie Mack", "Motography" (USA), 4 July 1914, pg. 23-24, "Sans Grease Paint and Wig"
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA (heart disease)
Birth Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth Name: McGowan, Hugh
A Brooklyn undertaker whose wholesome label be Hugh McGowan, he was stippled one daylight slumbering by the haunch of a park bureau via producers 'J. Stuart Blackton' (qv) and 'Albert E. Smith' (qv) of Vitagraph Pictures. Vitagraph's biggest idol at the event was squat, tubby wit 'John Bunny' (qv), and Blackton and Smith reflection that since Bunny was for that reason in demand, another round comic credibly will be popular as resourcefully, so they wake him aware and offered him a commission.
Death Date: 13 October 1927
Birth Date: 26 November 1884
Larry Semon (actor)
Articles: "Classic Images" (USA), April 1999, Iss. 286, pg. C3-C6, by: Richard M. Roberts, "Larry Semon: The Cartoonist as Comic; Part I", "Classic Images" (USA), April 1989, Iss. 166, pg. 57-59, by: George A. Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Classic Images" (USA), March 1989, Iss. 165, pg. C20-C21, C23-C24, by: George A. Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Classic Images" (USA), September 1980, Iss. 71, pg. 62, 68, by: Herb Gordon, "The Comedian's Comedian", "8mm Collector" (USA), 1964, Iss. No. 10 (Winter), pg. 12-13, by: Sam Gill, "The Funny Men: Larry Semon", "Variety" (USA), 10 October 1928, "Larry Semon", "New York Times" (USA), 9 October 1928, pg. 31:3, "Film Comedian Larry Semon Dies; Succumbs to Pneumonia, Following a Nervous Break-Down, at a California Ranch; His Salary Once Million; Died a Bankrupt as a Producer--Left Job as Cartoonist for Slapstick Comedy", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 27 August 1927, pg. 589, "Larry Semon", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 July 1927, pg. 238, "Larry Semon to Build Own Studio", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 December 1926, pg. 3, "F.P. Signs L.S.", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 May 1926, pg. 3, "Not with Lloyd", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 October 1925, pg. 710, "Semon Uses School Kids", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 August 1925, pg. 845, "Larry Semon", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 October 1924, pg. 475, "Larry Semon Discards Clown Clothes in 'Her Boy Friend'", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 September 1924, pg. 211, "To Supply Comic Strip", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 May 1924, pg. 303, "Chadwick Signs Larry Semon for Series of Five-Reel Comedies", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 October 1923, pg. 507, "Work Begun on First Semon Feature Comedy", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 June 1923, pg. 597, "Semon Making Four More for Vitagraph", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 June 1923, pg. 496, "Signing Semon Gives Independents a Big Comedy Bet", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 3 September 1921, pg. 72, "Semon Gets Front-Page Space Fighting Fire in California", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 4 June 1921, pg. 503, "Semon Again Ill", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 18 September 1920, pg. 348, "Vitagraph Sues Larry Semon, Comedian, for $400,000, Charging Waste of Money", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 December 1919, pg. 655, "Larry Semon Renews His Contract with Vitagraph", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 15 November 1919, pg. 333, "Larry Semon Renews Vitagraph Contract"
In score of to the point films, Semon rivaled 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) contained by stand-up popularity during the hasty 1920s. He directed _The Wizard of Oz (1925)_ (qv), one of his impressively few feature-length films, where on earth he play the Scarecrow next to 'Oliver Hardy' (qv) in gel down of the Tin Man. He married his governing female, 'Dorothy Dwan' (qv), who played Dorothy, singular just alert to that juncture the film's acquittal. Unfortunately, it be not a glory and effectively kill Semon's art, which was already lying on the skid. He die a few years following., Son of vaudeville comedian Zera the Great., The somewhat mysterious circumstances surrounding his death have lead some to believe that he faked his own demise.
Nick Names: Ridolini (in Italy)
Death Notes: Gracelon Ranch, near Victorville, California, USA (lobar pneumonia)
Slapstick jester fussy all for his scenic, white-painted obverse and clownish smirk, mug his path to self a unbelievably in particular rewarded and having mass appeal entertainer. His art be marred next to personal complications and his fate was nowhere to be found to soaring payments. By the circumstance he die, he'd already be hospitalized for a over-sensitive fault and was penniless. He was 39 years ripened., American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight. The son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great, Larry Semon grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics. A talent for drawing and cartooning led to art school and then work as a cartoonist for various New York City newspapers. The humor evident in his published cartoons prompted executives at New York's Vitagraph Studios to hire Semon as a gag writer in 1916. He quickly proved himself and was promoted to director for the 'Hughie Mack' (qv) series of comedies. His background in magic helped him create interesting new gags for the comedian. When Mack left the studio in 1917, Semon took over the starring part himself. His one-reelers were quite successful. Thus, Vitagraph sent him to California to participate in its new west coast operation. He produced as well as wrote, starred, and directed his own films, as well as producing films for other comics. In 1918, Semon began featuring in his films a young comedian named 'Stan Laurel' (qv), and their successful pairing seemed to portend a new comedy team. But for reasons variously given, Laurel left the partnership in its infancy. Coincidentally, within a year, Laurel's future partner 'Oliver Hardy' (qv) would join Semon's troupe, eventually becoming a prominent member. By that time, Larry Semon was one of the top movie comedians, operating almost as his own boss on the Vitagraph lot, with substantially increased salary and budgets. Semon began having problems with the Vitagraph brass, due to costs exceeding even his increased budgets and to his own arrogant behavior. After various lawsuits between Vitagraph and its erratic star, a new contract made Semon himself responsible for his own production costs and decisions. Just as critics were beginning to complain of a scarcity of new ideas in his films, Semon became answerable to no one but himself. Vitagraph eventually complained that the product Semon was providing was sub-standard, and in 1923 he ended his association with the studio. A foray into feature films was none too successful, and Semon, in a new partnership, Chadwick Pictures, returned to two-reelers. Semon then embarked on a disastrous dream project, an adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz.' Armed with a superb cast, with Semon at the helm, the project was wildly expensive but enormously promising. Yet Semon failed utterly to capitalize on that promise, completing not a film classic but a trite and inept standard comedy which seemed only to share a title and character names with L. Frank Baum's classic story. Reeling from this failure, Semon moved desperately into work for hire while attempting to stave off creditors. Chadwick Productions folded, and by 1927, Semon was working as a gag writer again. A gangster role in von Sternberg's _Underworld (1927)_ (qv) was impressive, but a mere ripple. An agreement which was a remnant of Chadwick Productions' deal with Educational Pictures led to a last-ditch effort to produce two-reelers. These too failed, and Semon faced bankruptcy. He lost everything he owned and Semon, only 39, now considered a has-been in movies, returned to vaudeville. In the summer of 1928, Semon apparently fell ill with tuberculosis and simultaneously, it seems, suffered a nervous breakdown. He entered a sanitarium near San Bernadino, California, where he reportedly died on October 8. However, an air of mystery surrounds his death, since his wife (and former co-star) 'Dorothy Dwan' (qv) was allowed almost no contact with him and never saw his body, which was ordered cremated after a tightly-secured funeral which was carried out as per Semon's "previous instructions" and to which almost no attendees were allowed. The whereabouts of Semon's cremated remains are to this day a mystery and his widow professed until her death to be mystified by the circumstances of his death. With enormous financial obligations facing him, Larry Semon could easily have considered a dramatic escape of this sort from his creditors. Whether he did, or whether his death was just that, the actual sad final chapter to a high-rising, briefly brilliant, but ultimately short-lived career may never be known for certain.
Birth Notes: West Point, Mississippi, USA
Salary History: _Grocery Clerk, The (1920)_::$5000/week, _Lightning Love (1923)_ (qv)::$5,000/week
Birth Name: Semon, Lawrence
Spouse: 'Lucille Carlisle' (qv) (? - 1923), 'Dorothy Dwan' (qv) (22 January 1925 - 8 October 1928) (his death)
Death Date: 8 October 1928
Birth Date: 16 July 1889
William Shea (actor)
Articles: "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 November 1918, pg. 840, "Obituary", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 21 July 1915, pg. 19:2, "In the Picture Studios", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 April 1913, pg. 288, by: George Blaisdell, "At the Sign of the Flaming Arcs"
Death Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA (angina pectoris)
Birth Notes: Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Birth Name: Shea, William James
According to Theatre Magazine, December 1918, p. 392: "... the oldest poignant montage actor in the green in years of pay, and the debut wag of the Vitagraph Company, die immediately of heart virus, at his Brooklyn hall of residence."
Death Date: 6 November 1918
Birth Date: c. 1862
Nellie Anderson (actress)
Birth Notes: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Death Date: 19??
Mother of actress 'Mary Anderson (IV)' (qv).
Birth Date: June 1874
Patsy De Forest (actress)
Adele DeGarde (actress)
C. Graham Baker (writer)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Baker started bounded by crop of a tabloid press officer in Brooklyn and Manhattan back entering films in 1914. He write a ancillary screenplays in favour of satirist John Bunny and also wrote for Fox, Universal and Warner Bros., studios underneath the permanent status of Leslie S. Barrows. Baker die repeated intellect surgery.
Birth Notes: Evansville, Indiana, USA
Birth Name: Baker, Charles Graham
Death Date: 15 May 1950
Birth Date: 16 July 1883
Larry Semon (writer)
Articles: "Classic Images" (USA), April 1999, Iss. 286, pg. C3-C6, by: Richard M. Roberts, "Larry Semon: The Cartoonist as Comic; Part I", "Classic Images" (USA), April 1989, Iss. 166, pg. 57-59, by: George A. Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Classic Images" (USA), March 1989, Iss. 165, pg. C20-C21, C23-C24, by: George A. Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Classic Images" (USA), September 1980, Iss. 71, pg. 62, 68, by: Herb Gordon, "The Comedian's Comedian", "8mm Collector" (USA), 1964, Iss. No. 10 (Winter), pg. 12-13, by: Sam Gill, "The Funny Men: Larry Semon", "Variety" (USA), 10 October 1928, "Larry Semon", "New York Times" (USA), 9 October 1928, pg. 31:3, "Film Comedian Larry Semon Dies; Succumbs to Pneumonia, Following a Nervous Break-Down, at a California Ranch; His Salary Once Million; Died a Bankrupt as a Producer--Left Job as Cartoonist for Slapstick Comedy", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 27 August 1927, pg. 589, "Larry Semon", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 23 July 1927, pg. 238, "Larry Semon to Build Own Studio", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 December 1926, pg. 3, "F.P. Signs L.S.", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 May 1926, pg. 3, "Not with Lloyd", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 October 1925, pg. 710, "Semon Uses School Kids", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 August 1925, pg. 845, "Larry Semon", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 October 1924, pg. 475, "Larry Semon Discards Clown Clothes in 'Her Boy Friend'", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 September 1924, pg. 211, "To Supply Comic Strip", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 May 1924, pg. 303, "Chadwick Signs Larry Semon for Series of Five-Reel Comedies", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 October 1923, pg. 507, "Work Begun on First Semon Feature Comedy", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 June 1923, pg. 597, "Semon Making Four More for Vitagraph", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 June 1923, pg. 496, "Signing Semon Gives Independents a Big Comedy Bet", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 3 September 1921, pg. 72, "Semon Gets Front-Page Space Fighting Fire in California", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 4 June 1921, pg. 503, "Semon Again Ill", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 18 September 1920, pg. 348, "Vitagraph Sues Larry Semon, Comedian, for $400,000, Charging Waste of Money", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 December 1919, pg. 655, "Larry Semon Renews His Contract with Vitagraph", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 15 November 1919, pg. 333, "Larry Semon Renews Vitagraph Contract"
In score of stumpy films, Semon rivaled 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) bounded by humorist popularity during the fickle 1920s. He directed _The Wizard of Oz (1925)_ (qv), one of his greatly few feature-length films, where on earth he play the Scarecrow near 'Oliver Hardy' (qv) by bearing of technique of the Tin Man. He married his principal female, 'Dorothy Dwan' (qv), who played Dorothy, freshly long-gone the film's deliverance. Unfortunately, it be not a glory and effectively kill Semon's occupation, which was already against the skid. He die a few years afterwards.
