Ad For The Hollywood Girls Series

Here is an ad for the "Hollywood Girls" series from Educational.

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Happy New Year

From the crew at Christie comedies, from 1927 or 1928!

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1924 Olive Borden Clipping

From the Laurel and Hardy Archive on facebook.

Jan. 1924.

Jack White was the brother of Jules White and would later work with him at the short subjects department at Columbia.



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Dorothy Granger - Fan Magazines

Some Dorothy Granger items from the fan magazines of the thirties.

 

They liked her even if she wasn't skinny. 

 

 

 

 

 "The Boy Friends" was sort of a teenage version of "Our Gang".

 

 

 

 

 I told you they liked her even if she wasn't skinny.

 

 

 Educational turned out a lot of comedies while it lasted.

 

 

 

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LOOK OUT BELOW

LOOK OUT BELOW was released on August 18, 1929. It was the only Jack White comedy that Thelma Todd appeared in.

The story has Raymond McKee and Thelma Todd as two people who are married ( not to each other ) who go out together to make their spouses jealous. When their spouses do show up, Thelma insists that they are "serious" in order to make the situation more serious in order that comedy might ensue, resulting in a ruckus in which waiter Monte Collin's dishes are disarrayed and Raymond McKee goes out the window to engage in some Harold Lloyd - style antics on a skyscraper that is being constructed next door to the restaurant. Raymond McKee is wearing glasses to make it that much more Harold Lloydesque as he and his pals clamber about on the girders and suffer a number of indignities.

 
I found a couple of pictures from this film at http://www.silentcomedymafia.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=98 , one of which has Thelma Todd in it.

Robert Graves as Thelma Todd's husband

Robert Graves and Thelma Todd

Here are a few photos of other cast members, but not from this movie.


This photo shows Raymond McKee wearing glasses.

 

 

 

 

Raymond McKee was famous for starring the "Smith Family" series for Mack Sennett. Here we see him with costars Ruth Hiatt and Mary Ann Jackson.

 

Mary Ann Jackson was later one of the "Our Gang" kids.

                                                                     Monte Collins

 

From THE WOMAN HATERS CLUB, the first Three Stooges short at Columbia. Monte Collins appeared in a number of Three Stooge comedies as well as working with Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd and many others. He was credited as a writer on the last Laurel and Hardy movie, ATOLL K.

Although the site where I watched this film had an "embed" feature, it didn't work when I tried to embed it in this blog. So you'll have to click on the link below to watch this film.


Watch LOOK OUT BELOW:
http://silentbeauties.blogspot.com/2012/06/look-out-below-1929.html



Monte Collins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Collins

Robert Graves:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336344/

Raymond McKee:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571205/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm#trivia

http://travsd.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/stars-of-slapstick-33-raymond-mckee/

http://immortalephemera.com/20096/marguerite-courtot-biography/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_McKee

Jack White:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_White_(film_producer)


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Thelma Todd At Educational

Educational Pictures was advertised as "The Spice Of The Program". They were called "Educational" because they started out making educational films before switching to comedy films. Their logo represented Aladin's magic lamp out of the Arabian Nights.

 

 

 

A later version for the talkies.

Jack White* was actually one of the more important producers of comedy short subjects in the twenties. In 1929 Thelma Todd appeared in one of his comedies, LOOK OUT BELOW.


An ad for LOOK OUT BELOW from MOTION PICTURE.

Monte Collins appeared in many comedies in that period and worked with the Three Stooges as well as Buster Keaton at Columbia.




An ad for Educational Pictures lists Thelma Todd along with Mack Sennett, Anita Garvin, Phyllis Crane, and many others.

But after LOOK OUT BELOW, she never made another picture for them. The Hal Roach studio was becoming the leader of the short subjects field, and Thelma Todd did most of her work in short subjects there.




An ad for Educational pictures a little later in the decade features Buster Keaton,

who went to work for them after having been fired by MGM.



 Educational had seen better days prior to the thirties, and would be gone before the end of the decade, a victim of financial problems that affected the entire industry.



*Jack White was the brother of Jules White, and would later work for him at Columbia under the stage name of "Preston Black".


E.W. Hammons:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358817/

LOOK OUT BELOW:
http://www.divshare.com/download/18232533-217

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349744/


Jack White:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_White_(film_producer)


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