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Hace 3 días · Read more: What I devoured as a kid, though, were the later short films they made for Hal Roach during the ‘talkies’ era of the 1930s. For a long time, the earlier silent films they made in ...
Hace 5 días · Get Out and Get Under is a 1920 silent comedy film directed by Hal Roach and starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. The car in the movie, to which Lloyd was alternately devoted or frustrated, appears to be a 1920 Ford Model T.
Hace 4 días · Working at the Hal Roach Studios, Lloyd cultivated the persona of an earnest, sweet-tempered boy-next-door. He specialized in a variant of Keystone mayhem known as the “comedy of thrills,” in which—as in Lloyd’s most famous features, Safety Last! (1923) and The Freshman (1925)—an innocent protagonist finds himself placed in ...
Hace 3 días · Much of what makes that physical comedy work can be credited to producer-director Leo McCarey. Today, he’s largely remembered for the sentimental musical comedy-drama Going My Way (1944) and its sequel The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), as well as the tender, weepy Love Affair (1939) and its remake An Affair to Remember (1957), but his roots were in silent comedy.
Hace 2 días · Comedy-Classic. Movie/TV Title. Laurel & Hardy: the Essential Collection. Studio. Rhi Entertainment. About this product. Product Identifiers. UPC. 0883476060217. ... These films have been made from the original 35mm masters from the Hal Roach Studios, and the quality is gorgeous.
Hace 14 horas · Vintage postcard. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933). American film actress Jean Harlow (1911–1937) was with her come-hither body, platinum blonde hair, and keen sense of humour, one of Hollywood's sex symbols of the 1930s. She had her breakthrough in Howard Hughes' World War I epic Hell's Angels (1930). Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde (1931 ...
Hace 5 días · He was the go-to Jewish comedian of the screen for years, in short-subject vehicles turned out by the Hal Roach studios. While his performances included stereotypical grimaces, shrugs, eye rolls, and oy-vey hands to the face, it can not be said that these films were overtly anti-Semitic.
