Bert Lahr – photos and quotes
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“After The Wizard of Oz, I was typecast as a lion, and there aren’t all that many parts for lions.” — Bert Lahr “If you want to be a success in Hollywood, be sure and go to New York.” — Bert Lahr
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Gracie Allen
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“You can’t be funny without a funny situation. Give an ordinary player funny lines and a ludicrous situation and he or she will get laughs.” — Gracie Allen Quote: 1939 Photo: College Swing (1937) With husband and comedy partner George Burns in 1936. Dorothy Lamour hanging out with Gracie Allen and Betty Hutton […]
Bob Hope – photos and quotes
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“I’ve been in this game long enough to realize there’s no such thing as a new quip….The object is to make a quip sound fresh by giving it a new turn, or tying it up with modern slang or situations in the news.” — Bob Hope Source: Irving Wallace (1940) Photo: 1939 Marlene […]
Jack Oakie – photos and quotes
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“Diction! Say! That’s the thing that’s ruined more stars than made ’em. Diction! That’s what’s wrong with half the old-timers. They started learning how to talk and they flounce around the sets with their ‘cawnts’ and ‘Chewsdays’ and all that stuff. Say, audiences don’t want that sort of stuff, see? Audiences want to hear actors […]
Three Stooges
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“The working class people like to think of us as being a real part of them. The middle class enjoys our work because they don’t dig opera and art and they think they’re better than we are. The few upper class people who watch us like to see what happens on the other side of […]
Sidney Smith
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Silent film comedian Sidney Smith (often billed as Sid Smith) reads the Los Angeles Evening Herald while being groomed in a shabby, run-down bathroom. He died on July 4, 1928, from ingesting poisoned alcohol during a drinking binge that had lasted several days. Apparently, Smith had attended a party at a Santa Monica beach house […]
Thelma Todd – Ice Cream Blonde
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“I always think of blondes as soft and pliable, ready to cling to the nearest male for support and protection, just waiting to be taken care of, and very sweet and easy to live with because they are so amiable. None of which qualities belong to me. I am a fighter. I have made my […]
Sidney Drew & Lucile McVey — photos and quotes
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“Day after day we look through incoming manuscripts for the germ….The germ of an idea. In our two years of producing one reel comedies, we have never been able to buy a scenario complete as we produce it. We take them for the ideas they possess. The scripts are practically reconstructed by Mrs. Drew. I […]
Max Linder – photos and quotes
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“I am here again, sadder myself, but, I believe, more capable to make others laugh. It has been a terrible experience I have been through. I have seen men suffer; I have seen men die; I have been close to death myself. You think, monsieur, that this experience would kill all the laughter in me? […]
Ford Sterling – photos and quotes
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“I was born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, but moved early to Texas, where dad was engaged in the cattle business. After his death I found it necessary to get out and hustle. I didi – hustled right onto the stage, at the advice of James O’Neill, a graduate of my alma mater, Notre Dame College, […]