With an alternate title of How Betty Outwitted Her Father, The Troublesome Secretaries also features Ralph Ince -- youngest of three filmmaking brothers -- pulling double-duty as both actor and director.
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Showing posts with label 1911. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2012
Slapstick Summer Series: Before The Fame | Troublesome Secretaries (1911)
I was very surprised to stumble upon this [incomplete?] movie starring a pre-Keystone Mabel Normand alongside John Bunny, America's 1st major film comedian. This was the first (and only surviving) pairing of these film comedy forebears as Normand left Vitagraph very soon after.
With an alternate title of How Betty Outwitted Her Father, The Troublesome Secretaries also features Ralph Ince -- youngest of three filmmaking brothers -- pulling double-duty as both actor and director.
With an alternate title of How Betty Outwitted Her Father, The Troublesome Secretaries also features Ralph Ince -- youngest of three filmmaking brothers -- pulling double-duty as both actor and director.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Slapstick Summer Series: Moving On | Alkali Ike's Auto (1911)
Related to yesterday's post, Ike (first 'Alkali Ike', then 'Universal Ike' after the actor moved from Essanay to Universal Studios) was another pre-Tramp/Fatty character portrayed in multiple films -- this time, by Augustus Carney, and in almost 50 different movies.
Alkali Ike's Auto, the first in the series and directed by Essanay co-founder, Broncho Billy Anderson, features Carney's 'Ike' in competition with 'Mustang Pete' (Harry Todd) to win the affections of 'Betty Brown' (Margaret Joslin). In a case of life imitating art, Joslin later married Todd after first being married to Carney!
Alkali Ike's Auto, the first in the series and directed by Essanay co-founder, Broncho Billy Anderson, features Carney's 'Ike' in competition with 'Mustang Pete' (Harry Todd) to win the affections of 'Betty Brown' (Margaret Joslin). In a case of life imitating art, Joslin later married Todd after first being married to Carney!
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