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Jan 11 1920 Silent comedy film The Garage (also known as Fire Chief) directed by and starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton is released.

‘The Garage’ is released, as is that tire & we hope a few laughs ;) This is another ‘Comique’ short that gets it’s premise from multiplicity; the garage of the title also serves as a fire station.  It’s also the last ‘Comique’ short as the next title Buster Keaton put out was under his own studios.

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Dovima by Horst P. Horst for Vogue, 1954

Ivor Novello goes Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)

Lana Turner with her daughter, Cheryl, 1943

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The Painted Veil (1934) directed by Richard Boleslawski

Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich, 1958, after one of Garland’s concert performances

Charlie Chaplin & Douglas Fairbanks visit Mary Pickford, set of her film “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, 1917.

Details from a hand-colored scrapbook about Mary Pickford, made by her sixteen-year-old fan Janet Esme Vernon of Buckinghamshire, England in 1921.

Next in the series of Canadian born actresses of the 1910s-20s to mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we have the Toronto-born Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), who as Mary Pickford became America’s - and the world’s - Sweetheart.