"Laurel Hardy"

that seemed like a good ending for the blog, but the blog lingers on, so I'll put a few more things  through. Here is an early publicity item for Laurel and Hardy that calls them  "Laurel Hardy".


From the Hal Roach Studio group on facebook.

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Hal Roach Comedies Baseball Sextette

Hal Roach's comedies baseball sextette. Left to right, they are: Blanche Menaffey, Kathleen Collins, Martha Sleeper, Fay Wray, Katherine Grant and Marjorie Whiteis. (1926).

Special thanks to Jorge Finkielman for providing us with this picture. 



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Girls Posing On A Box At The Roach Studio.

Thelma Todd poses on a box in a publicity photo for Hal Roach.

Martha Sleeper sitting on what might be the same box Thelma Todd posed on at the Hal Roach studio.

Paulette Goddard on a box at the Hal Roach studio in 1932.

A picture of Thelma Todd on a box used for a magazine article.

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Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties

 It was Mack Sennett who first put bathing beauties in the movies.

Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties seldom if ever went into the water, but if ever the occasion came that they should find themselves there, they were dressed for the occasion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once Sennett started it, the other studios had to have bathing beauties, too.

Hal Roach had bathing beauties as well.







A 1941 article mentions Mack Sennett once again in connection with bathing beauties.

Finally, a 1942 picture of Mack Sennett with one of the later bathing beauties, Anne Gwynne.

Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties:
http://silenthollywood.com/macksennettbathingbeauties.html

http://verdoux.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/mack-sennetts-bathing-beauties-c-1919/

http://www.udenap.org/groupe_de_pages_08/bathing_beauties.htm ( French: can be translated )



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