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Kenneth Williams: “Oah my Ghad–”

from Columbia Pictures “South American George” Released to theatres: December 27, 1941

“Palmy Days” opened on October 3, 1931 & was one of the most popular movies of that year. “Palmy Days” indeed; the picture netted a respectable $1,601,000 late in the depression year of 1931! Not bad for “a more or less funny diatribe” according to New York Times Film critic Mordaunt Hall, who further added, with “two or three inconsequential melodies & a great deal to gaze, including pretty damsels from the Pacific Coast & effectively photographed groups of dancers.” The (11/26/1931) Lackawanna News of New York added; “Cantor is consistently amusing & (the film) has set something of a new style in musical pictures.” YES! YES! The art deco era of Busby Berkeley escapism had arrived bringing the Goldwyn Girls with it!

A Happy St. Patrix Day … wiv’ a wee bit a’ Blarney fur ya… With James Barton as Harrigan, Victor Mature as the Slicker & Reginald Gardiner as English Eddie the tea-leaf. (sneak-thief)

(seen left to right are: Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Jackie Cooper, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins & Norman 'Chubby' Chaney)

(Piece of Piss!)

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson in one of a series of stills taken in conjunction with the Jack Benny film; “Man About Town” (1939). It might have been a deleted dream sequence or musical number, as no such action takes place in the finished film…

02/14/2019: Jack Benny was born this day in 1894, if he were alive today he’d be turning 39… (Seen with Laurel & Hardy in MGM’s “The Hollywood Revue of 1929″)   It has been said that Jack wore a derby for his 1963 role in “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World” in tribute to Stan Laurel, who was initially offered the role, but turned it down, not wishing to appear without his departed partner, Mr. Hardy… A lovely gesture..from one fellow artist to another…

Unlikely Valentines; but a perfect comic coupling of Eddie Cantor & Charlotte Greenwood in “Palmy Days” (1931) 

Awe! Poor Al St. John…. (would date!) From the charming prologue sequence from FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT (1916)  Thanks to the Laughsmith Entertainment team for restoring this classic film; you can find it on the Mack Sennett collection from Flicker Alley.