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Minta Durfee

Blanche Payson [I Surrender Dear (1931) / Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1950)]

Ruth Hiatt [Saturday Afternoon (1926) / Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1950)]

Juanita Hansen [A Clever Dummy (1917) / Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1950)]

Minta Durfee Arbuckle [Leading Lizzie Astray (1914) / Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1950)]

Julia Faye [Photoplay, Jan 1930 / A Movie Star (1916) / Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel (1950)]

Arbuckle also swam in the Pacific with Normand nearly every Sunday. Durfee remembered:

So one Sunday morning they came back, and instead of the two of them getting out of the water immediately and coming up on the sand, there was something going on…Well, what it was, as they were swimming back from the Venice pier, up came a dolphin, and instead of Mabel being frightened like anybody would, because none of us knew anything about dolphins in those days, she just put her arm over the neck of this dolphin, and he swam right along with them. And do you know, every Sunday, for nearly a year, he came and swam with them, down and back, until one day they came back and then he disappeared, and they never saw him again.

Actor, Stuntman, Good Boy, the Legend that is….

Luke the Dog (1913-1926)

Luke was an American Staffordshire Terrier who belonged to Roscoe Arbuckle’s wife Minta Durfee. Arbuckle began using the pup in his films with Mabel Normand, and later his own films, including many that also featured young Buster Keaton.

Luke loved Buster and Buster clearly loved him back, as he chose him to be in one of his own early two reelers; The Scarecrow in 1920.

When Roscoe and Minta broke up, Minta kept the dog, as he had originally been a gift to her from Roscoe. Roscoe got visitation rights however, and Luke retired from performing. He died at age 13 in 1926.

Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) Charlie Chaplin & Joseph Maddern

Twenty Minutes of Love is a 1914 film, directed by Joseph Maddern and Charlie Chaplin. It was the eleventh film starring Charlie Chaplin produced by Keystone and the first time that producer Mack Sennett let Chaplin try his hand at the camera and actively collaborate on the film with his ideas.

Filmed in just one afternoon at Echo Park in Los Angeles, this one-reel comedy, which Chaplin called "continuous laugh throughout" in his autobiography, is a variation on the theme of the park, the policeman and the pretty girl.

Chaplin recounted that throughout the afternoon of filming he played a newly released ragtime piece Too Much Mustard by Cecil Macklin, on whose notes Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers would dance 25 years later in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle