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Subject: "What Price Taxi"


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Thu, May 09 2019, 22:51:54

"...the men are over at the garage within two minutes."

Better would be "the men be over at the garage" OR "the men come over to the garage"
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Subject: Typos


Author:
Jesse the Obsessee
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Date Posted: Thu, May 09 2019, 14:20:51
Big Blanche -- Place of death should really be Granada Hills (per the DC), not Hollywood. COD: "artiosclerotic" --> "arteriosclerotic." Acknowledgments: "(1930 Census)" should be "(1900 Census)" (might have been an error on my part).

Billy Bletcher -- birth date should be the 20th, not 24th

Baldwin Cooke -- character for CALL A COP misspelled "Detcetive"

Virginia Grey -- "Paul Parrott" mislink (extra "1" where the underscore should be)

Ollie -- NICKEL HOPPER is misspelled with an extra "P" in "HOPPER"

Harry Hayden -- birth place should be NOVA Scotia (not "Novia")

Edgar Norton -- scrollover on header image says "(1933)" - should be "(1935)"

Lincoln Plumer -- "California" needs to be removed from his birth place.

Sage Sisters -- "(a la gher father)"

A-Z Actors -- Frank Lester Ward's surname is misgiven as "Wagner"; Pierre Watkin is alphabetically misplaced between Watsons.

ONE AT A TIME -- Favourite bit: "Moahn" (Mohan)

SAILORS BEWARE -- third-to-last Trivia fact: "embarras[s]ment"

MANHATTAN MONKEY BUSINESS -- third-to-last factoid: "USN (Unites [United] States Navy)"

SWISS MISS -- top of page: "SCreenplay"

TOP FLAT -- odd syntax in the Favourite bit: "...but I have always remembered this short but for one rather hilarious scene." Second "but" reads awkward to me.
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Subject: "Poker At Eight"


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Wed, May 08 2019, 22:47:02
"...with Tommy and asks Charley" - not "aks"

"Tommy pretends to be hypnotized -- not "by"

"...put her in that way." Better would be "put her in that state."

"...as well as plates, flying." Needs a comma between plates and flying.
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Subject: "Turnabout"


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Wed, May 08 2019, 22:43:41

"...she and Tim begin to argue" not "toy argue"
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Subject: Franklin Pangborn


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Wed, May 08 2019, 22:42:37

Click on "Turnabout" brings "Page Not Found."
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Subject: "Madame Mystery"


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Wed, May 08 2019, 22:38:20
Corrections in the description of the film:

"...crashes the pursuing car onto its roof" this wording is confusing. Did the car flip over onto its roof or did it crash into the roof of another car?

"...to the stewards... (steward?) Charlie Hall -- but Hall is not included in the cast list and the photo of the steward shown among the unidentified does not look like Hall.

"refused permisison" -- permission

"keeps in it" -- should be keeps it in

Finlayson begins to -- not "beings to"
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Subject: New Actors


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Tue, May 07 2019, 18:43:27
While researching obscure silent era actors, I came across a few who have Hal Roach credits:

Lillian Leighton (1874-1956) "Your Husband's Past" (1926)
"Be Your Age" (1926) "Flaming Fathers" (1927) "Fair and Muddy" (1928).

Paul Everton (1868-1948) "Topper Takes A Trip" (1938) "Merrily We Live" (1938)

Richard Neill (1875-1970) "General Spanky" (1936)

Gladys Hulette (1896-1991)[played Alice in "Alice In Wonderland" 1910] "Be Your Age" (1926)
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Subject: JAMES HENRY BUSH additions


Author:
JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)
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Date Posted: Sun, May 05 2019, 13:01:25
http://www.lordheath.com/menu1_784.html

Born: Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio.
Real name: James Henry Bush*.
*his birth record shows no middle name or initial but a number of newspaper "blurbs" say "James H." or "James Henry" Bush.

The family moved from Ohio to Los Angeles about 1912. His Mom, May Brown (1873-1959), was a "stage Mother" and his manager. One newspaper account says she had been a successful stage actress "back East" and another says she had wanted to become an actress. She enrolled him in the Egan Dramatic School where he received his primary education and performed at churches, social clubs and civic events as "the boy soprano". Newspaper interviews mention him acting as a "kid" in films and one said he was a "protege' of Mary Pickford for productions she did with Paramount" but no films are named. He sang, danced, acted and played violin all the way through his 4 years at Los Angeles High School. He became a prolific stage actor performing everything from fairy tales; musicals; comedy; drama and Shakespeare.

After graduating high school he played assorted parts in a wide variety of plays for various amateur groups for a few years, eventually getting a starring role in 1926 with the esteemed Pasadena Community Theater. He worked steadily for the next several years with the Duffy Players and Morosco, playing a season in St. Louis and one in Seattle/Portland while resisting movie offers. Invariably he received good reviews for his performances even when the play or other actors were below par and developed his own following before he was 22 years old.

In 1932 he signed with Paramount for 2 pictures and from then on, played everything from leading men, supporting roles and bit parts in major and minor motion pictures, working steadily into TV series' in the 1950's.

In his early 20's he raised goldfish commercially. His multi-acre ranch on Laurel Canyon Road was all white: house, barn, furniture, fences, chickens, rabbits, horse and bulldog.

In May 1935, James was a pallbearer for 2 funerals in 2 days. Jackie Coogan's Dad was driving to their ranch on a mountain road outside San Diego at high speed (possibly intoxicated) and ran off the road, rolling over several times into a rocky ditch. All were killed except Jackie who was riding in the rumble seat and miraculously escaped with minor injuries. All were friends of James. One was 19 year old up-and-coming movie actor, Junior Durkin and the other friend was 25 year old Robert J. Horner, an up-and-coming radio writer/actor (not to be confused by the producer of "low-rent" western movies).

Sources:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93764097 Findagrave birth and death dates.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPMH-1NF 1987 Death and Mother's name: CA Death Index.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLF9-M97 1910 Census Cincinnati, OH. James H. Bush.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH74-DVB 1920 Census LA James H. Bush.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJ1-TJX 1930 Census LA James H. Bush actor, motion picture.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9HG-MCS 1940 Census LA James Bush actor, on call: age 28.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380172854/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1914 Dec. Egan Dramatic School plays 5 parts.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380147658/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1915 Feb photo playing violin.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380522704/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1916 Mar 9-year-old boy soprano w/photo.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380563586/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1916 Apr James Henry Bush w/Mrs. W.D. Bush.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380524548/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1916 May James Henry Bush as Puck photo.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380360728/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1917 Apr in Rip Van Winkle play photo.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380651133/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1918 Feb is protege of Mary Pickford.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380470678/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1918 Apr has "stage mother".
https://www.newspapers.com/image/156454744/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1921 Nov performs solo dance act.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380570435/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1922 Jul in Pilgrimage Play outdoor extravaganza.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380644024/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1924 Sep in play running 32 weeks.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380644024/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1926 Apr lead part play w/ Pasadena Comm Players.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380625563/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1926 May James Henry Bush interview pt.1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380625590/ 1926 interview pt.2.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380490060/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22&match=2 1928 Feb interview: Mom was actress.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/385492281/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1929 Jul raises goldfish.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380482791/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1932 Oct signs movie contract.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380487412/?terms=%22JAMES%2BBUSH%22 1935 Feb all white ranch.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380457424 1935 May pallbearer for Junior Durkin.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380457844/?terms=%22ROBERT%2BHORNER%22 1935 May pallbearer Robert Horner.
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Subject: Some New Corrections


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Sat, May 04 2019, 14:29:14
Actors A-Z page: some who should be in "red" as they are exclusively in Non-Roach films: Edward G. Robinson, Joe Rock, Irish Meredith, Polly Moran, Mantan Moreland

"The Non-Skid Kid" - Lilymae Wilkinson needs a link.

Eddie Boland -- Click on "Many Happy Returns" brings up "All Mixed Up." Is this an aka title? Also, there is no "All Mixed Up on the Films A-Z page.

Films A-Z should be in red: "West of Hot Dog," "Radio Bugs" and "The Bell Hop."

"Blue Sunday" - Unidentified large woman: Molly Thompson?

Lee Meehan -- "West of Hot Dog" is Non-Roach.
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Subject: Tyler Brooke


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Sat, May 04 2019, 12:10:48
Another credit for our old friend Tyler Brooke: "Kelly The Second" he plays one of Ed Brophy's henchmen. Can be seen sitting behind Brophy, Pert Kelton and Charley Chase in the prizefight scene around 19:25 at this web link: https://ok.ru/video/1203224054438
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Subject: Lacy typo / RING UP question


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Wed, May 01 2019, 10:12:55
On Madison Lacy's page, I screwed up when I typed out the sentence, "The former is what's given in his birth records, as well as the Social Security Death Index." "Former" should be changed to "latter."

And also, a question regarding the RING UP THE CURTAIN IDs: will you be noting Parrott, Howe and Joslin's dual roles? Seeing as they are currently ID'd for one role each, and Parrott and Howe are also rowdy employees and Joslin also an audience member, and I took your removal of them from the unIDs as agreeing with my IDs of them in those roles.
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Subject: Ring Up The Curtain


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Sun, April 28 2019, 20:23:47
...through a telescope before BREAKING it."
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Subject: RING UP THE CURTAIN unIDs


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Sun, April 28 2019, 13:15:07
Row 1: William Peterson?, James Parrott, an unlisted-in-the-HLE Lew Harvey, Wallace Howe, unknown

Row 2, bald guy: Billy Fay

Crowd shot:
- Looks like Margaret Joslin (again) and I think Jerome LaPlanch flanking the middle row.
- Front row, of the three fully visible: Belle Mitchell is rightmost, and that might be James Parrott yet again (role #3?) as the man at the left.
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Subject: GET BUSY


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Sat, April 27 2019, 17:44:53
Is the policeman "Tonnage?"
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Subject: BERTHA KENNEPOHL born Richmond, IN


Author:
JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)
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Date Posted: Mon, April 22 2019, 19:30:27
http://www.lordheath.com/Bertha_Kennepohl.html

The newspaper birth announcement doesn't name Bertha but does identify the baby as a girl, first born child and the Father as George W. Kennepohl. Her parents were married in Los Angeles in 1900.

"Richmond IN Item" 01 May 1902 p.2:

"George W. Kennepohl and wife, of 115 Richmond avenue, are the parents of a girl, the first child."

Sources:

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19001011.2.176&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-kennepohl-------1 1900 LA Marriage License of parents.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/247776512/?terms=kennepohl 1902 birth announcement Richmond, IN.

Trivia: The uncle of Roach actor, George Rowe, lived 2 doors up from the Kennepohl family in the 1910 LA Census.(The brother of George's Mother, Walter J. Helbach).
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Subject: WILD LIFE shots/links


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Sun, April 21 2019, 19:14:03
With the exception of the later-ID'd and -added Maynard Laswell, screenshots and links for IT'S A WILD LIFE are missing from the rest of the actors' own pages.

Perhaps owing to their absence from the HLE cast list, the film is completely missing from Margaret Joslin and Harry Clifton's pages.
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Subject: HIGH AND DIZZY unIDs


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Sat, April 20 2019, 12:15:06
Is that Molly Thompson as "Lady in corridor?"

"Bellhop 1" actually looks like Freddie Newmeyer to me.
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Subject: Bertha Kennepohl


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Fri, April 19 2019, 20:42:11
Like many folks, especially women, I have researched that are listed in the Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia cast lists, I have found nothing connecting this woman to acting, but seeing as she's the only Bertha Kennepohl I've found in Los Angeles during the late 1910s/early 1920s, this is more than likely our woman...

born: 16 April 1902
Indiana,
United States of America

died: 26 September 1986
Orange County, California,
United States of America

Real name: Bertha Lillian Kennepohl

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV2R-XC5 (1910 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQR-KJP (1920 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8Z5-H6C (1920 marriage)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCZT-7Q2 (1930 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9W6-PRW (1940 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPVS-MST (CA Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JG7B-C6R (Social Security Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL7-K18C (daughter Betty Lou Jenny's birth, 1927)
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Subject: "M.S. Lacey" = Madison S. Lacy


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Wed, April 17 2019, 12:47:57
A popular Hollywood still and publicity photographer, Lacy was also an assistant director at Roach during the early 1920s.

Born 02 August 1898, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Died 26 April 1978, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.

In terms of his birth date, he seemed to go back and forth between 01 and 02 August. The former is what's given in his birth records, as well as the Social Security Death Index.

Real name: Madison Stoner Lacy
Height: 5'10"

Here's a self-portait:
http://www.iphotocentral.net/common/detail.php/4096/143//181/3/0/1/2281

https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturestu00johnrich#page/280/mode/1up/search/lacy (1921 Motion Picture Studio Directory)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBRB-D8P (birth record)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2JS-LS6 (birth record)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZVN-9CL (WWI draft reg. card)
https://www.fold3.com/document/630389831/ (WWII draft reg. card)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP6M-6DY (CA Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JG4B-NY9 (Social Security Death Index)
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Subject: Charles Bilkey


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Tue, April 16 2019, 22:34:42
specific birth place: Elko, Nevada, USA

died: 18 January 1922
Los Angeles, California,
United States of America
(pulmonary tuberculosis, age 22)

Real name: Charles Lytton Bilkey

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZVN-2RT (WWI draft reg. card)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG5F-QDX5 (death certificate)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/147516314/ (Reno Gazette-Journal, 20 Jan 1922)
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Subject: NEXT WEEK-END unIDs


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Tue, April 16 2019, 17:01:42
Dunno about the diner you currently have ID'd as Nena Quartero. Nena looks more like "Patron 6" to me.

"Patron 7" looks like Estelle Etterre.

Is "Dinner guest 2" Sydney Jarvis?

"Don Barclay's girl" looks sorta familiar, but I can't place her. Maybe it's her passing resemblance to Joyce Compton.
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Subject: Dorothy Coburn Speaks?


Author:
Bobby (Intrigued)
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Date Posted: Tue, April 16 2019, 13:20:17
Hi

Does anyone know whether Dorothy Coburn ever spoke in a sound film? I have a few of her films but no sound films.

Thanks

Bobby
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Subject: Erville Alderson


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, April 15 2019, 14:14:04
Erville Alderson was born on September 11, 1882 in Kansas City, Missouri and he went Home to be with the Lord on August 4, 1957 in Glendale, California.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Chic Sales, Jr.


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, April 15 2019, 5:28:33
Chic Sales, Jr. was born on December 1, 1916 in New York City, New York and he went Home to be with the Lord on August 27, 1977 in Alameda County, California and his full name was Charles Bishop Sale.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Jackie Williams


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 21:17:11
Jackie Williams was born on February 24, 1924 in Wichita, Kansas and he went Home to be with the Lord on June 27, 1944 in Kern County, California and his full name was Jack Eugene Williams.

It is according to website:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Jack+Eugene_Williams&birth=1924&birth_x=0-0-0&count=50&name_x=1_1.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Billy Seay


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 21:07:59
Billy Seay was born on July 16, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois and he went Home to be with the Lord in 2012.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Lucky Beginners


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 20:03:59
Typos:

imitations NOT immitations

imitates NOT immitates

leopard skin -- 2 words

unnamed NOT un-named (3 times)
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Subject: Latest Updates to Site


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 20:01:48
April 4 Top 200 link brings up Page Not Found.
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Subject: Edward Norris


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 17:02:50
Edward Norris was born on March 10, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he went Home to be with the Lord on December 18, 2002 in Fort Bragg, California and his full name was Septimus Edward Norris.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Edward Fielding


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 16:48:46
Edward Fielding was born on March 19, 1875 in Brooklyn, New York and he went Home to be with the Lord on January 10, 1945 in Beverly Hills, California and his full name was Edward B. Elkins.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Walter Soderling


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 15:49:21
Walter Soderling was born on April 13, 1872 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he went Home to be with the Lord on April 10, 1948 in Los Angeles, California.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Morris Ankrum


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 15:28:43
Morris Ankrum was born on August 28, 1896 in Danville, Illinois and he went Home to be with the Lord on September 2, 1964 in Pasadena, California and his full name was Morris Nussbaum.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Jamie Kauffman


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, April 14 2019, 14:12:42
Jamie Kauffman was born on December 21, 1928 in Hoquiam, Washington and he went Home to be with the Lord on October 8, 2000 in Cincinnati, Ohio and his full name was Jamie Dana Kauffman.

Jamie Kauffman was an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Teacher's Beau."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher%27s_Beau

Thank you very much.
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Subject: CALL HER SAUSAGE unIDs


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Sat, April 13 2019, 22:49:27
Far left is Joseph Young.

Far right is Billy Engle.
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Subject: Lucky Beginners


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Fri, April 12 2019, 11:44:37
This non-Irvin S. Cobb "special" has a number of intriguing characters among the cast who have not been included on the ANM Rogues' Gallery. I am particularly intriqued by Tarzan Goldberg and hope the intrepid team of researchers will be able to unearth endlessly fascinating info.
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Subject: Hal Roach Films I Am Missing


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Tue, April 09 2019, 14:18:28

"Skinny" is the only performer whose missing films you do NOT list on this page. Might be helpful if you did list them as someone might have or discover a title but not know who stars in it.
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Subject: Latest Updates On The Site


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Mon, April 08 2019, 15:19:55
The link to Top 200 on your recent post in Latest Updates On The Site lead to a Page Not Found notice. (The Top 200 link in the March section does work.)
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Subject: Lincoln Plummer


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Thu, April 04 2019, 14:23:11
Kudos on all your hard work editing "Limousine Love." Interesting to note that cast member Lincoln Plummer died on the last day of filming. I'm wondering -- was he run over by a limo?
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Subject: HARRY LOWE Jr. ELIMINATED from Washee Ironee


Author:
JARVIS---Chicago (delighted with 99.9% confidence)
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Date Posted: Tue, April 02 2019, 11:34:18
http://www.lordheath.com/Harry_Lowe_Jr.html

Lordheath originally had the correct screenshot for "Washee Ironee" for the "Chinese boy from laundry shop" but the actor is definitely NOT Harry Lowe Jr. from Imperial County CA.

Since the usual sources name him as the actor, this is an ANM "EXCLUSIVE".

Neither is it his brother, HERBERT LOWE.
His cousin, ALBERT LOWE Jr. (child performer), is still possible if the actor is named LOWE and from Imperial County CA.

Also still possible is another child actor named "WONG" (probably from the LA Area) as per MALTIN and BANN.

Why are HARRY (and HERBERT) LOWE eliminated?
They were in Canton, China from June 1932 until June 1941.
That makes it impossible for either of them to be in "Washee Ironee", filmed in CA in 1934.

From the"Calexico Chronicle" (1932 June 2 p.4), the entire family left CA for Canton, China where the Dad was planning to open a paint and varnish factory. It is difficult to tell from the article if this was to be a permanent relocation, but the youngest daughter, GLADYS LOWE, was born there in 1936.
The newspaper quote below:

"Harry Lowe and Family to Sail Next Wednesday

Harry Lowe, Chinese interpreter at the International line for the past several years, and proprietor of the Paris meat market in Mexicali, is preparing to leave here next Wednesday with his family, returning to Canton, China, where he will go into business. Mr. Lowe will sail from San Pedro on the President Hoover and will take his plans for a paint factory which he expects to open in Canton in an endeavor to distribute paint and lacquer in China in a wholesale business. Mr. Lowe, a brother of Albert Lowe of the Bank of America here, has made many friends both in Mexicali and in Calexico where he has lived in recent years. He has officiated in thousands of cases of Chinese people crosing the international boundary at this port."

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19320602.2.44&e=-------en--20-CC-1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22harry+lowe%22-------1 (free site).

The most conclusive evidence is the ship's passenger list returning from Hong Kong on June 16, 1941. The LOWE family is on board minus the Dad who returned either sooner? or later?; he died in San Diego in July 1966.
Look at both pages of the passenger list linked below (free site), especially page 2 column #22. It asks the question: When was your last departure (from the USA)?
The LOWEs' answer is "June 12, 1932."

This family was very, very fortunate as the Japanese had already invaded China in 1937 and slaughtered thousands. Their passenger ship was returning to the USA just 6 months before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, HI on December 7, 1941! I don't know, but this turmoil may have had something to do with the Dad not returning with the family in 1941.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMW-3D5?i=914&cc=1916084 first page of passenger list (free site).

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMW-362?i=915&cc=1916084 second page passenger list (free site).
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Subject: "Mandarin Mix-Up" and Julie Leonard


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Tue, April 02 2019, 9:38:16
The title is "Mandarin Mix-Up" is per the screenshot, but the printed title on this page appears as "A Mandarin Mix-Up."

Julie Leonard's character is identified as Lili but on Julie Leonard's page it is "unidentified character."
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Subject: Our Gang Follies of 1936


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, April 01 2019, 11:54:10
Here is the entire cast of the "Our Gang" short, "Our Gang Follies of 1936":

Scotty Beckett as Scotty
Darla Hood as Cookie
Eugene Gordon Lee as Porky
George McFarland as Spanky
Carl Switzer as Alfalfa
Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
Dickie Jones as Dickie
Dickie De Nuet as Little boy
Sidney Kibrick as Our Gang member
Donald Proffitt as Our Gang member
Leona McDowell as Usherette
Jackie White as Girl helped with dress
George the Monk as Monkey
The Brian Sisters: Doris, Betty and Gwen as Farm girls
Junior Cavanaugh and Garrett Joplin as Tap dancers
Patsy Northup, Georgia Bank, and Peggy Speth as Hula dancers
Joy Wurgaft as Girl singing with Alfalfa
The Meglin Kiddies as the 'Follys' Chorus
Rex Downing as Audience member with glasses
Leonard Kibrick as Leonard
Harold Switzer as Harold
Jerry Tucker as Jerry
Dix Davis as Boy lifted in air by fat kids
Kay Frye as Scared girl in audience
Philip Hurlic as Black boy in audience
Marvin Strin as Fat kid in audience
Billy Lee Wolfstone as Fat kid in audience
Jackie Banning, Therese Bonner, Daniel Boone, Frances Bowling, Patty Brown, Moyer "Sonny" Bupp, Janet Comerford, Barbara Goodrich, Joan Gray, Paul Hilton, Phyllis Holt, Joyce Kay, Patty Kelly, Mildred Kornman, Yvonee Lohn, Priscilla Lyon, Billy Minderhout, June Preston, Phillip Marley Rock, Jimmy Sommerville, Delmar Watson, Jackie White

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang_Follies_of_1936

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Melodies Old and New


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, April 01 2019, 11:31:51
Here is the entire list of the "Our Gang" short, "Melodies Old and New":

Janet Burston as Janet
Mickey Gubitosi as Mickey
Billy Laughlin as Froggy
George McFarland as Spanky
Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
Walter Wills as Uncle Walt Wills
Lavonne Battle, Shiela Brown, Shirley Jean Doble, Donna Jean Edmondson, Eddie Ehrhardt, James Gubitosi, Dwayne Hickman, Dickie Humphries, Robert Morris, Kay Tapscott, Frank Lester Ward, Patricia Wheeler

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodies_Old_and_New

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Subject: Melodies Old and New


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, April 01 2019, 11:22:41
Roger Morris and Robert Morris was one and the same person.

Roger Morris (as Robert Morris) was an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Melodies Old and New."

It is according to website:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodies_Old_and_New

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Joyce Kay


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, April 01 2019, 11:19:57
Joyce Kay was born in the year remains a mystery to this day.

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Subject: Beginner's Luck


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sat, March 30 2019, 15:13:22
Here is the entire list of the "Our Gang" short, "Beginner's Luck":

George McFarland as Spanky
Matthew Beard as Stymie
Scotty Beckett as Scotty
Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
Alvin Buckelew as Alvin
Jerry Tucker as Jerry
Eileen Bernstein as Our Gang member
Sidney Kibrick as Our Gang member
Cecilia Murray as Our Gang member
Donald Profitt as Our Gang member
Merrill Strong as Our Gang member
Pete the Pup as Himself
Marianne Edwards as Daisy Dimple
Laura June Kenny as Floradora Dolly
The Cabin Kids as Themselves
Bonnie Lynn as Little girl singing
The Meglin Kiddies as the Floradora Dollies
Carl Switzer as Arizona Nightingale
Harold Switzer as Arizona Nightingale
Freddie Walburn as Kid with the harmonica
Jackie White as Tapdancer
Bess Flowers as Friend of Spanky's mother
Charlie Hall as Stage hand
Tom Herbert as Master of Ceremonies
Ruth Hiatt as Daisy's mother
Kitty Kelly as Spanky's mother
James C. Morton as Piano player
May Wallace as Spanky's grandmother
Ernie Alexander as Audience member
Fred Holmes as Audience member
Jack Lipson as Audience member
Tommy McFarland as Audience member
Robert McKenzie as Audience member
Snooky Valentine as Undetermined role

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginner%27s_Luck

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Additional cast members


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sat, March 30 2019, 14:35:32
Bonnie Lynn was an actress in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Beginner's Luck."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginner%27s_Luck

Tommy Tobin was an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Fightin' Fools."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightin%27_Fools

Hugh Binyon is an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Fightin' Fools."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightin%27_Fools

Paul Rodriguez is an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Mama's Little Pirate."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%27s_Little_Pirate

Marilyn Bourne (as Marylin Bourne) is an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Mama's Little Pirate."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%27s_Little_Pirate

Harry Lowe, Jr. is an actor in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Washee Ironee."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washee_Ironee

Jacqueline Krenk is an actress in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Waldo's Last Stand."

It is according to website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo%27s_Last_Stand

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Annie Ross


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sat, March 30 2019, 14:22:52
Annie Ross and Annabel Logan was one and the same person.

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Subject: Jana Ekelund


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sat, March 30 2019, 14:21:24
Jana Ekelund was born on August 28, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and she went Home to be with the Lord on July 20, 1991 in Los Angeles, California and her full name was Jana Cozette Ekelund. She later became Jana Lund.

She was an actress in the "Our Gang" comedy short, "Our Gang Follies of 1938."

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Subject: Harry Lowe, Jr.


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sat, March 30 2019, 13:45:33
Harry Lowe, Jr. is born on March 12, 1931 in Imperial County, California and he is still living as of February 25, 2019 and his full name is Harry Jin Lowe.

It is according to website:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Harry_Lowe&event=_Imperial+County-California&birth=1931_Imperial+County-California&birth_x=0-0-0_1-0&count=50&event_x=_1-0&name_x=1_1.

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Subject: The Real MERRILL STRONG


Author:
JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)
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Date Posted: Thu, March 28 2019, 12:07:08
http://www.lordheath.com/Merrill_Strong.html

born: 31 August 1930.
Alpine, Utah.
United States of America.

died: 27 September 2015.
Thousand Oaks, California.
United States of America.
(age 85).

burial: Westlake Village, Los Angeles, CA.

Real name: Frank Merrill Strong.

Merrill's parents, Raymond Strong and Josephine Merrill were married in 1922 in Salt Lake City in the LDS Temple. They lived in Alpine, UT where his Mom was a school teacher. She had 4 children there. In 1933, the Dad died in Salt Lake City from a broken neck in an accidental fall from a second story hotel window with "intoxication" as a contributing factor. The family then moved to San Francisco to live with the Mom's parents.
About 1936, they moved back to Provo, UT where the Mom eventually became a teacher at BYU Provo. Merrill was a star athlete at BY High School, graduating in 1948 and after a year at BYU was drafted into the US Army shortly before he married Gayle Curtis in 1950. After mustering out of the Army, he went to work as a clerk for an insurance company in San Francisco.

Frank Merrill Strong from Family Search by Richard B. Adair:

Birth •
31 August 1930
Alpine, Utah, Utah

Death •
27 September 2015
Thousand Oaks, Ventura, California, United States
Reason This Information Is Correct:

I attended and spoke in the funeral service for Frank Merrill Strong.

Burial •
Westlake Village, Los Angeles, California, United States.

IN "OUR GANG COMEDY"STARRING MERRILL STRONG FORMERLY OF ALPINE Matinee.
Clipped from The Pleasant Grove (UT) Review, 17 May 1935 p.4.

Sources:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KW8H-6TM LDS Family Tree by R.B.Adair who spoke at funeral.

https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60201/records/237048 1922 Marriage of Parents.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/331420001/?terms=%22merrill%2Bstrong%22 1933 Dad's death: gives Merrill as son.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZP9-122 1933 Dad's Death Certificate.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/291197156/?terms=%22merrill%2Bstrong%22 Ad for movie with Merrill from Alpine, UT.

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&indiv=try&h=114107189 1940 Census UT:San Francisco misread as "San Marino" 1935 res.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/467680875/?terms=%22merrill%2Bstrong%22 1950 Marriage/Army Draft.
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Subject: Jacqueline Krenk


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Wed, March 27 2019, 22:16:15
Jacqueline Krenk is born on December 20, 1931 in Nebraska and she is still living as of February 25, 2019 and her full name is Jacqueline L. Krenk. She later became Jacqueline L. Hill due to her marriage to Richard P. Hill.

It is according to websites:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Jacqueline_Krenk&event=_Nebraska&birth=1932&birth_x=0-0-0&count=50&event_x=_1-0&name_x=1_1, https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/dir_city/?name=Jacqueline_Hill&event=_California&birth=1931&birth_x=0&event_x=_1-0&name_x=1_1, and https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/34/?name=_Krenk&count=50&name_x=1_1&spouse=_Hill&spouse_x=_1.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Marilyn Bourne


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Wed, March 27 2019, 14:53:15
Marilyn Bourne is born on February 1, 1930 in Los Angeles, California and she is still living as of February 25, 2019 and her full name is Marilyn Susanne Bourne.

It is according to website:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Marilyn_Bourne&event=_Los+Angeles+County-California&birth=1930_Los+Angeles+County-California&birth_x=0-0-0_1-0&count=50&event_x=_1-0&name_x=1_1.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Paul Rodriguez


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Wed, March 27 2019, 14:52:40
Paul Rodriguez is born on November 15, 1931 in Los Angeles, California and he is still living as of February 25, 2019.

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Subject: Actors with no images


Author:
Lord (full list)
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Date Posted: Wed, March 27 2019, 12:19:09
A full list of all the 98 actors on ANM without any screenshot or identification image:
(in random order)

Hazel Baugh
Robert Yost
Lew Powers
Edith Sinclair
Yvonne Lohn
Jimmy Brown
Cecelia Murray
Leon Holland
Mickey McGuire
Michael Miller
Tommy Dee Miller
Ralph Hodges
Raphael Dolciame
Becky Bohanon
Floyd Fisher
Morris Grace
Bruce Grant
Eugene Lowe
Cheryl Hopper
Roberta McGowan
Roger Morris
Venita Vincent
Harold Adkins
William Sundholm
Bob Davis
Louise Tordera
Donna Jean Edmondsond
Hugh Sheridan
Tom White
Joe White
Marlene Kisker
Teresa Mae Glass
Trina Morris
Rae-Nell Laskey
Don Hulbert
Drew Roddy
Ada Lynn
Bobby Crockett
Verna Dillon
Harry McCabe
Beverly Thomas
Jo Ann Thomas
Gerald Mackey
Arthur Mackey
Jackie Morrow
Gloria Mackey
Leon Highby
Gwen Brian
Betty Brian
Doris Brian
Junior Kavanaugh
June Preston
Harold Shaw
Gerald Shaw
Georgia Bank
Dorian Johnston
Tom Braunger
Patsy Barry
Susette Laveil
James Horne Jr.
Billy Diamond
Bobby Heck
David Wilmot
Carl Busch
Josephine Roberts
Catherine Proudfit
E.J. Ritter
Chase Thorne
Al Ochs
Bill Brokaw
Harry Bayfield
Corrine Varian
Pauline James
Larry Kert
Betty Ann Muir
Glenn Mickens
Fanny Kelly
Patsy Anne Thompson
Bunny Bronson
Jimmy Boudwin
Billy Shuler
Dorothy Heinrichs
Joline Karol
Jimmy Sommerville
Billy Eckley
Clarence Calvert
Douglas Short
Grace Bohanon
Snooky Valentine
Jane Blyler
James Blyler
Grace Madden
Oscar Larson
Loretta Dray
Billy Mack
Ruth Langton
Retta Palmer
George Miller

I also have several new people to add from the "Anonymous" posts on this forum, many of which I suspect will not have any image.
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Subject: WISE GUYS PREFER BRUNETTES


Author:
Jesse (hmm...)
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Date Posted: Tue, March 26 2019, 22:16:44
From Dorothy Coburn's bio in the 1929 and 1930 Motion Picture News Blue Books:

"Entered pictures in May, 1926. Daily swim in Culver City Community pool led to being sent to Hal Roach Studios to double Helene Chadwick in swimming and diving. Remained a double 7 mos."

I know your copy of the film isn't in the best quality, but if Chadwick is in fact absent from any pool scenes, is it possible Dorothy Coburn is among the Bathing Beauties?
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Subject: Tyler Brooke


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Tue, March 26 2019, 0:20:10
Noticed Tyler Brooke died a suicide from carbon monoxide. Randomly came across an article in Variety (six years previous to his successful suicide attempt dated Dec. 29, 1937) stating Brooke attempted suicide then "from overdose of sleeping tablets. Police said he has been despondent over ill health."

Does it seem I have too much free time on my hands?
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Subject: Hugh Binyon


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, March 24 2019, 23:57:18
Hugh Binyon is born on April 15, 1932 in Los Angeles County, California and he is still living as of February 25, 2019 and his full name is Hugh William Binyon.

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Subject: Tommy Tobin


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Sun, March 24 2019, 23:49:42
Tommy Tobin was born on July 27, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and he went Home to be with the Lord on August 29, 1997 in San Diego County, California and his full name was Thomas MacGregor Tobin.

It is according to website:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Thomas+MacGregor_Tobin&event=_Los+Angeles+County-California&birth=1933_Los+Angeles+County-California&birth_x=0-0-0_1-0&count=50&event_x=_1-0&name_x=1_1.

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Subject: William H. O'Brien


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Sat, March 23 2019, 21:27:28
There are two listings for "Broadway Limited" on William H. O'Brien's page. The Hal Roach Studios link is correct. The Streamliners (1942) links to "Brooklyn Orchid."
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Subject: Frank Austin


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Sat, March 23 2019, 19:21:19
Frank Austin appeared in 10 Roach film's but isn't in Top 200 list.
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Subject: A New Idea


Author:
crazy craig
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Date Posted: Sat, March 23 2019, 19:17:36
ANM Contest: Free Hal Roach DVD to anyone who can provide verifiable images of the seven actors whose physical appearances remain a complete mystery!
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Subject: PIPE THE WHISKERS unID


Author:
Jesse
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Date Posted: Sat, March 23 2019, 18:43:25
Is that Gus Leonard?
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Subject: CY SLOCUM 5'9" plus typo


Author:
JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)
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Date Posted: Sat, March 23 2019, 13:37:35
http://www.lordheath.com/menu1_885.html

Source:
https://www.fold3.com/image/630592750


Name: Charles Hamilton Slocomb
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 39
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 24 Aug 1902
Birth Place: Newark, New Jersey , USA
Residence Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Registration Date: 14 Feb 1942
Employer: Central Casting Corp
Weight: 157
Complexion: Ruddy
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5 9

Typo on HoF Page bio:should be "Slocomb".

He was born to Edward and Margaret (Alyea) Solcolmb;
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Subject: Yvonne Lohn


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Thu, March 21 2019, 14:21:59
Yvonne Lohn (as Yvonee Lohn) was born on May 21, 1929 in Los Angeles, California and she went Home to be with the Lord on September 25, 1960 in Fresno, California and her full name was Yvonne Shirley Lohn.

It is according to websites:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88763683/yvonne-shirley-lohn and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang_Follies_of_1936.

Thank you very much.
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Subject: Charles Judels


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Thu, March 21 2019, 0:47:18
Needs 2 credits on his page: WAR MAMAS (32) and MISTER CINDERELLA (36). His name on Mr. C page is misspelled.
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Subject: Blanche's Babes


Author:
Crazy Craig
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Date Posted: Tue, March 19 2019, 19:52:18
Link to lovely Louise Emmons name brings blank black page.
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Subject: Bonnie Lynn


Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: Mon, March 18 2019, 20:06:52
Bonnie Lynn was born on October 8, 1927 in the United States of America and she went Home to be with the Lord on October 19, 2018 in Klamath Falls, Oregon and her full name was Bonnie J. Lynn. She later became Bonnie J. Stonecypher due to the marriage to Chester J. Stonecypher.

It is according to websites:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldandnews/obituary.aspx?n=bonnie-j-stonecypher&pid=190576667, https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Bonnie_Lynn&count=50&name_x=1_1&spouse=Chester_Stonecypher&spouse_x=1_1, and https://www.mylife.com/bonnie-stonecypher/e798434322462.

Thank you very much.
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