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American filmmaker Frank Capra began his career in the silent movies, helping to showcase and shape comedian Harry Langdon's gentle character for Mack Sennett. He went on to have his first big hit with the early talkie It Happened One Night, a wonderfully funny rom-com that won all 5 top Oscars in 1935. He followed this with a series of still-popular comedies with social messages that were also made for Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Cant Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Respectively, these films argue (with their laughs) for the virtues of harmless eccentricity, humanity, and simplicity.

In 1969, the movie business was starting to transition from old, proven formulas to more daring and original films that spoke to a younger demographic. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood sets out capture the spirit of that year and the way the movies and their stars reflected the attitudes of the time.

Here’s a clip from The Jimmy Kimmel show where Quentin talks about the premiere of his new movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, attending a screening with Jimmy, shooting with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie, Inglourious Basterds, naming his own Mad Magazine parody, asking actors to be in his movies, why he is close to ending his filmmaking career. Margot Robbie stops by with an announcement:

There were plenty of great movies made in 1969 celebrating their golden anniversaries this year. Here are 17 of them that the writers here at We Are Movie Geeks...

Stan And Ollie is a moving love letter to beloved comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (portrayed by Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly). The film focuses on the dynamics of the duo’s 1953 comeback tour through the music halls of England, which took place amid Ollie’s deteriorating health. With the exception of a look at the filming of Way Out West, one of Laurel and Hardy’s most beloved comedies, director Jon Baird and screenwriter Jeff Pope resist the temptation to show too many re-creations of old movies and imitators of old stars. Fortunately for fans of the pair, that tour featured re-creations of many of their routines, songs and gags and there is plenty on screen to enjoy.

Stand And Ollie is one of the great human dramas of Hollywood, though little of it actually takes place in tinseltown. There’s a 15-minute opening set there in...

The following is a slightly re-edited version of a piece that ran during the early days of my blog, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, posted on April 3, 2007, in which I took some time to acknowledge one of my favorite movie stars, the inimitable force of nature known as Patsy Kelly. Eleven years ago Netflix was yet to become the powerhouse force in streaming home entertainment that it now incarnates; it was still a strictly DVD-by-mail service that allowed as many as three DVDs at once to sit on your shelf for as long as you wanted, until such time as you said “I’ve never gonna watch these” and decided to send the back for three others in your ridiculously long queue. (The normalization of the word “queue” may have been Netflix’s great contribution to American culture during this time.) In those days, Netflix also allowed you...

2 February 1966: Along with Charlie Chaplin and Harry Langdon, Keaton was one of the three big stars of the silent film era

Buster Keaton, who died yesterday in Hollywood, was something of a genius, and even today there are men who spend hours arguing whether Charlie Chaplin or Harry Langdon or Buster Keaton was the greatest of the comedians of Hollywood’s vintage years, when custard pies were delivered in every reel.

No one will ever provide the answer to suit everyone. But Keaton, who would have been 70 this year, is enshrined in the memories of all who saw him as one of the three great comedians who made silent pictures an art. Unlike his rivals, he continued to act until almost the end of his life; he retired only four months ago when the lung cancer, which killed him, made work – even in television commercials – impossible.

Amongst the many tributes pouring out today to the late, great Jerry Lewis, slot this interview clip of Jean-Luc Godard from The Dick Cavett Show in 1980. Seeing him as continuing the great physical comedy tradition of Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton, Godard goes on to extoll Lewis’s precise framing and sense of geometry. “But do you find him funny,” Cavett asks, and the answer is worth rolling this clip.

The filmmakers behind Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first spinoff of the incredibly successful Harry Potter series, apparated in New York City to meet the press. I knew exactly where to find stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol, director David Yates and producer David Heyman. Be Warned: There are spoilers in some of Ezra Miller’s answers. Ezra Miller The Lady Miz Diva: When I first saw your character, Credence, he reminded me of the silent film actors Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon, those sort of sad-faced clowns. Where did you collect the pieces that made him? Ezra Miller: It’s interesting because in the script, Newt is described as Buster Keaton-esque. So, I...

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The King Baggot Tribute will take place Wednesday September 28th at 7pm at Lee Auditorium inside the Missouri History Museum (Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri). The 1913 silent film Ivanhoe will be accompanied by The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra and there will be a 40-minute illustrated lecture on the life and career of King Baggot by We Are Movie Geeks’ Tom Stockman. A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here

Here’s a look at the final phase of King Baggot’s career.

King Baggot, the first ‘King of the Movies’ died July 11th, 1948 penniless and mostly forgotten at age 68. A St. Louis native, Baggot was at one time Hollywood’s most popular star, known is his heyday as “The Most Photographed Man in the World” and “More Famous Than the Man in the Moon”. Yet even in his hometown, Baggot had faded into obscurity.

This article was published in response to Tales of Cinema: The Films of Hong Sang-soo, a complete retrospective at New York's Museum of the Moving Image. On June 23rd, Hong Sang-soo's Golden Leopard winning Right Now, Wrong Then will receive a theatrical release from Grasshopper Film. You can also read Christopher Small and Daniel Kasman's interview with Hong Sang-soo from the Locarno Film Festival here.With her back to the camera, pencil-like frame aping the posture of a nearby lighthouse that guards the border with the sea, Isabelle Huppert’s atypical protagonist in In Another Country (2012), while dozily imagining yet another iteration of the story's romantic dynamics, becomes a typical image by Hong Sang-soo: a character whose momentary break from their own dreamy game of interchangeable personalities we are suddenly, inexplicably privy to. It’s a day-dream moment that can only be reversed by a structural shift in the story; when Anne's lover,...

Robin Williams passed away one year ago today, prompting a huge outpouring of sadness from fans and friends across the globe. 12 months on, and a world without Williams is still tough to take.

Robin Williams: 10 incredible roles from Aladdin to Good Will Hunting

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The comedian, actor and Hollywood star was much-loved for his incredible wit and warmth off stage and on it. Digital Spy looks back at 13 beautiful Williams quotes - from film and real life - that inspired and made us laugh.

1. Words of wisdom from Good Will Hunting

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2. On avoiding violence

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3. The mysteries of creation

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4. The problem with being a man

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5. The differences between men and women

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6. On his father's advice when he started acting

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7. The gag...

In today's roundup of news and views: Charlie Fox on Buster Keaton, Danny Leigh on Alan Clarke, Abel Ferrara on collaboration, Adrian Martin on the "New Cinephilia," Martin Amis on Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Sérgio Dias Branco on Roberto Rossellini's The Flowers of St. Francis, Peter Cowie on Ingmar Bergman's cinematographers, Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist, Benjamin Bergholtz on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Michael Mann's Heat, David Kalat on Harry Langdon, Duncan Gray on Brad Bird's Tomorrowland—and more. » - David Hudson...

In today's roundup of news and views: Charlie Fox on Buster Keaton, Danny Leigh on Alan Clarke, Abel Ferrara on collaboration, Adrian Martin on the "New Cinephilia," Martin Amis on Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Sérgio Dias Branco on Roberto Rossellini's The Flowers of St. Francis, Peter Cowie on Ingmar Bergman's cinematographers, Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist, Benjamin Bergholtz on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Michael Mann's Heat, David Kalat on Harry Langdon, Duncan Gray on Brad Bird's Tomorrowland—and more. » - David Hudson...

Broken SpecsReaders of online criticism probably know the name Ted Fendt for his invaluable French translation work—on this site alone he’s published English-language versions of interviews (with director Jean Eustache and cinematographer Caroline Champetier) and pieces on Straub-Huillet, Bresson, Grémillon, and others. He’s also offered his own perceptive analysis of Paris Goes Away, Rivette’s half-hour Le Pont du Nord rehearsal, and compiled theauthoritative bibliography to Godard’s Goodbye to Language. Less visible, though, has been Fendt’s own work behind the camera—he currently has five narrative shorts to his name, works at once delightfully shaggy dog and rigorously formalist, and they look and feel like little else happening in American independent cinema right now. We’re thrilled to finally present the online premiere of his films Broken Specs (2012) and Travel Plans (2013) on Mubi.Reviewing Fendt’s choice of translation work, you can trace the seeds...

The King Baggot Tribute will take place Friday, November 14th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium beginning at 7pm as part of this year’s St. Louis Intenational FIlm Festival. The program will consist a rare 35mm screening of the 1913 epic Ivanhoe starring King Baggot with live music accompaniment by the Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra. Ivanhoe will be followed by an illustrated lecture on the life and films of King Baggot presented by Tom Stockman, editor here at We Are Movie Geeks. After that will screen the influential silent western Tumbleweeds (1925), considered to be one of King Baggot’s finest achievements as a director. Tumbleweeds will feature live piano accompaniment by Matt Pace.

Here’s a look at the final phase of King Baggot’s career.

King Baggot, the first ‘King of the Movies’ died July 11th, 1948 penniless and mostly forgotten at age 68. A St. Louis native, Baggot...

Review by Sam Moffitt

I love the silent era of movie making. I’ve written of this before and will again, many times I’m sure. Roger Ebert, on his website, made the observation (accurately I’d say) that silent films are not just movies without sound; they are a different medium altogether from the movies we are used to seeing now. Silent films are as different to sound films as radio is to television.

Hollywood Cavalcade was one of the first movies to look back at Hollywood history, and managed to involve several artists who were instrumental in making films that are still enjoyable today.

Hollywood Cavalcade tells the story of Mike Conners (Don Ameche) and his partner, ace cameraman Pete Tinney (Stu Erwin) and their trip to New York City to find a stage actress they can take back to Hollywood and make into a star of moving pictures.

This 1926 poster for a little-known tenement-set silent drama Sunshine of Paradise Alley grabbed my attention recently. Though it conforms to a lot of the conventions of 1920s movie posters, especially in the billing, there is something ineffably not-of-its period about the image. Maybe it’s the coloring (that yellow face, reminiscent in its oddity of Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl, painted 26 years later) or maybe it’s the tousled hair of star Barbara Bedford, so unlike 1920s movie star styles. And then there’s that beautiful title treatment (the same color as the face) with its unconventional “S”s and stacked “L”s.

Another unusual aspect of the poster is that it is signed—a quite uncommon occurrence in the 20s. (I wrote previously about Henry Clive who was an exception to the rule). The artist was Josef Bakos (1891-1977), a New York-born son of Polish immigrants who was a founding member of “Los Cinco Pintores,...

This incredible photograph appeared yesterday on a post on The Wire titled “The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Balloons Used to Be Extremely Creepy.” I immediately loved the photograph with its Frank Sidebottom-style floating heads but what caught my attention next is the sign just visible behind the head in the middle: a marquee for Josef von Sternberg’s Morocco. Now if there’s one thing I love more than bizarrely primitive helium-filled heads, it’s old photos of movie marquees. And if there’s one thing I love even more than that, it is examining the often-missed details of old photos and looking for clues to their place and time. (Anyone who’s a fan of Shorpy will know what I mean.)

The only specific detail on the original post is that the photo was taken in 1930, a fact that the Morocco marquee confirms. This means that it was...

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“There is an image, and people believe me when I say I make films, because, well, in the end...because we used a camera, and there is an image,” muses Jean-Luc Godard to potential producers in his video pitch, Petites Notes à propos du film Je vous salue Marie (1983), shown at the 51st New York Film Festival’s retrospective programmed by Kent Jones and Jake Perlin, Jean-Luc Godard - The Spirit of the Forms. “People think everything comes from the camera.”

Sometimes I think the images come from inside myself. On rare occurrence, a picture unspools in front of me that in the moment has no antecedent in my mind. Its movement is that of a dream, spontaneously created, this instant’s images connected only by the most opaque thread to those behind them. Its future images, those that follow what I am seeing, are not predestined by the...

Charley Bowers is remarkable not as a silent comedian, which is what he principally was. A bit like Harry Langdon, but blander, lacking athletic grace or much daredevil prowess (despite his supposed circus background), he could be said to have earned his decades in oblivion by failing to create a distinctive character onscreen. Bowers' true talent lay in filmmaking animation and visual effects, and also in surrealism, which is what he used those skills to create.

Now You Tell One (1926) is set in a club for liars, and illustrates a number of tall tales, allowing Bowers the actor to step into the background for much of the action. The opening skit shows 47 elephants marching into the Capitol Building. We know, of course, that no short subject could mobilize so many pachyderms like Hannibal, so we assume that the special effects artist has multiplied the number of beasts, probably starting with just one.

There are few celebs who are as famous, subversive and alluring as Angelina Jolie. The actress, director and humanitarian not only does it all, but seems to have it all too. Between her loving and hunky partner, Brad Pitt, her six amazing children and her red hot career (and body), this is a lady who was born on top.

In celebration of her 38th birthday (we know, 38 has never looked so good), we are taking a look back at one of her old modeling photos. In this 1991 shot, we see a 16-year-old Angie striking a pose in an ensemble that is very on-trend. Her denim cut-offs and crop top could easily be worn today... in fact, we spotted about 10 girls wearing this exact outfit on our way to work this morning. Once a trendsetter, always a trendsetter.

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This 1929 article by Paul Gilson, something of a forgotten classic in France, was published in the third issue of Jean George Auriol’s Du Cinéma (which would become the better known La Revue du Cinéma with the next issue) to coincide with the French release of Harry Langdon’s underappreciated masterpiece Three’s a Crowd. The magazine, close to various avant-garde circles, featured everything from screenplays to reportages to reviews, testifies to the effervescent, and relatively little known, film culture in Paris at the time. For those familiar with the bland, descriptive write-ups of most movie reviews of the era, this piece comes off as an exhilarating exercise in a deliriously subjective, free-form style of poetic film writing that is more inspired by the film than about it — an approach that, to this day, remains largely unexplored.

“Bombay, December 5th — The Bombay Chronicle brings to our attention an extraordinary botanical phenomenon.

Review by Sam Moffitt

I love silent films! I have to say that from the beginning I have been fascinated with the silent years of film making. When I was growing up in the St. Louis area in the sixties there was a syndicated show called Who’s The Funnyman? Hosted by Cliff Norton this was a kid’s show which presented silent slapstick comedies, Hal Roach, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Harold Lloyd, The Keystone Cops. These were short versions, cut to fit a Saturday morning time slot and with voice over by Mr. Norton. He would always introduce the films as a record of his family members, cousins, uncles, brothers, sisters, and describe the predicaments we could see being acted out on camera.

How I loved that show! It made me want to see the complete films, I could tell they had been edited just as Channel...

If Harry Langdon is the neglected figure from the pantheon of great silent-comedy stars, Chuck Harter and Michael J. Hayde have done their best to rectify that situation in a massive, and exhaustive, new book. A whopping 686 oversized pages, it resembles a phone directory for a mid-sized city as much as a film book. Some of this heft is due to incredibly detailed synopses of every Langdon short and feature, but there is also a wealth of welcome and valuable new information about the comedian’s life and work. The man whom many regarded as “a second Chaplin” when he made his mark onscreen in the mid-1920s, and then saw his career crumble by the end of that decade, is an...

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Harry Langdon, that pasty imp, enjoyed a brief renown in the heyday of silent comedy, assisted by his gagman-turned-director Frank Capra, then fired Capra and sank into a decades-long post-fame afterglow as a poverty row clown (briefly emerging to stand in for Laurel opposite Hardy in 1939's Zenobia). This portrait, painted by Capra, is somewhat true, but Capra embroidered it with his own self-aggrandizing version of events: Langdon didn't understand his own screen persona, which had been entirely created for him (mostly by Capra), and so without the guiding influence of greater talents, he sank inevitably into obscurity. Capra created a whole tragedy for his enemy, making Langdon sympathetic yet foolish, a man who achieved brief greatness thanks to the genius of others, but who lost out in the long result of time. Since none of Langdon's films were easily available for study when Capra was speaking, he got away with this.

Classic disco tunes found their way into just about every corner of our culture, from 'American Idol' to Beyoncé's 'Naughty Girl.'

By John Mitchell

Donna Summer

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The death of Donna Summer on Thursday (May 17) at age 63 after a long battle with cancer has many reflecting on the impact the disco legend had on music.

While many may not realize it, Summer is the foremother of, well, just about every pop song on the radio today. Her iconic 1977 anthem "I Feel Love," which peaked at #6 on the Billboard singles chart (one of 14 top 10 hits), was the first mainstream song to be produced using an entirely synthesized backing track. Until then, most disco recordings had been backed by acoustic orchestras, and the reception to the song revolutionized music.

"One day in Berlin, [Brian] Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future,...

Claudette Colbert, Alla Nazimova, Marion Davies, Charles Boyer: Cinecon 2011 Thursday September 1 (photo: Alla Nazimova) 7:00 Hollywood Rhythm (1934) 7:10 Welcoming Remarks 7:15 Hollywood Story (1951) 77 min. Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan. Dir: William Castle. 8:35 Q & A with Julie Adams 9:10 Blazing Days (1927) 60 min. Fred Humes. Dir: William Wyler. 10:20 In The Sweet Pie And Pie (1941) 18 min 10:40 She Had To Eat (1937) 75 min. Jack Haley, Rochelle Hudson, Eugene Pallette. Friday September 2 9:00 Signing Off (1936) 9:20 Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941) 68 min. Dan Dailey, Lynn Bari, John Sutton, Alan Mowbray. 10:40 The Active Life Of Dolly Of The Dailies (1914) 15 min. Mary Fuller. 10:55 Stronger Than Death (1920) 80 min. Alla Nazimova, Charles Bryant. Dir: Herbert Blaché, Charles Bryant, Robert Z. Leonard. 12:15 Lunch Break 1:45 Open Track (1916) 2:00 On The Night Stage (1915) 60 min. William S. Hart, Rhea Mitchell. Dir: Reginald Barker. 3:15 50 Miles From Broadway (1929) 23 min 3:45 Cinerama Adventure (2002). Dir: David Strohmaier. 5:18 Discussion...

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Beverly Hills, CA . The 1926 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner .Beau Geste. will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. .Summer of Silents. series on Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The evening will feature live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Ronald Colman and William Powell starred in this first film version of Percival Christopher Wren.s classic adventure novel about three brothers who join the French Foreign Legion to protect their family.s honor. Film historian Frank Thompson will introduce the feature.

At 7 p.m., .Saturday Afternoon. (1926), starring Harry Langdon, will be screened as part of the evening.s pre-show festivities.

The Medal of Honor, the first significant annual film award, pre-dating the establishment of the Oscars®, was voted by the readers of Photoplay Magazine...

Beverly Hills, CA .The Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner .Humoresque. (1920) will kick off a summer-long screening series of silent films at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. A restored 35mm print from UCLA Film & Television Archive will be screened with live musical accompaniment composed by Michael Mortilla, and performed by Mortilla on piano and Nicole Garcia on violin.

Directed by Frank Borzage, .Humoresque. is the film version of Fannie Hurst.s short story about a young violinist who rises from New York.s Jewish slums to international fame with the help of his doting mother. The film was the first to receive the Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor, the first significant annual film award, pre-dating the establishment of the Oscars®. The Medal of Honor was voted by the readers of Photoplay Magazine and...

Beverly Hills, CA . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off its summer screening series, “Summer of Silents: Photoplay Award Winners of the Silent Era,” on Monday, June 13, with a big-screen presentation of “Humoresque” (1920) with live musical accompaniment. The eight-film series, which will run through August 8, will showcase silent films of the 1920s, all of which were Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor award winners. All screenings will be held on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Pre-show festivities will begin at 7 p.m.

The Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor was the first significant annual film award, pre-dating the establishment of the Oscars®. First awarded in 1920, it was voted by the readers of Photoplay Magazine and given to the producer of the year’s winning film.

The evenings also will feature live musical accompaniment as well as pre-show presentations of such...

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We're back in our time machine with the broken dial, and this time we land in 1927.

What Was the Story?

Calvin Coolidge was president, and enjoyed a good strong decade, doing a better job than his predecessor, and presiding over the "Roaring Twenties," before the Great Depression hit in 1929. Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs and the Yankees won the World Series. The first transatlantic telephone call was made, and the world population was a measly 2 billion. Popular music of that year included tunes by Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy," Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust," and Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Matchbox Blues." Louis Armstrong's legendary Hot Five and Hot Seven bands were also recording during this time. People were reading things like Agatha Christie's 'The Big Four,' Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse,' Upton Sinclair's 'Oil!' and B. Traven's...

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We're back in our time machine with the broken dial, and this time we land in 1927.

What Was the Story?

Calvin Coolidge was president, and enjoyed a good strong decade, doing a better job than his predecessor, and presiding over the "Roaring Twenties," before the Great Depression hit in 1929. Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs and the Yankees won the World Series. The first transatlantic telephone call was made, and the world population was a measly 2 billion. Popular music of that year included tunes by Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy," Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust," and Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Matchbox Blues." Louis Armstrong's legendary Hot Five and Hot Seven bands were also recording during this time. People were reading things like Agatha Christie's 'The Big Four,' Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse,' Upton Sinclair's 'Oil!' and B. Traven's...

Knockabout clown in the music hall tradition who found enormous success in the cinema

Engulfed by helpless, gurgling mirth, Norman Wisdom would subside to the ground as if suddenly rendered boneless: it needed someone only to look at him to make him fall down. Often, the person looking at him – and sternly, at that – was Jerry Desmonde, doyen of variety straight men, who represented the figure of authority in many of Wisdom's hugely successful film farces of the 1950s and 1960s.

Wisdom, who has died aged 95, was almost the last in a great tradition of knockabout, slapstick clowns, a performer who relied less on words than on an acrobatic physical dexterity to gain his laughs. He was usually derided or ignored by the serious critics, but in his day he was adored by the public, and because of its nature his craft travelled well – he was immensely popular in many other countries,...

When I went off to college, I had yet to see a Buster Keaton movie, though I was already a huge Charlie Chaplin fan. A hallmate of mine found this out and we made arrangements to see The General (1927) at the library. We arrived and discovered that we needed to squeeze into a tiny viewing booth. There were headphones, but the film -- shown, I think, on a 16mm print -- did not have any soundtrack, so we discarded the headphones. Goodness only knows if it was shown at the correct speed; I tend to doubt it. But even under those lowly conditions, I remember being as blown away as if I were sitting in a huge, air-conditioned movie house watching a state-of-the-art summer blockbuster.

Now Kino Video has released two new Keaton titles. One is a remastered DVD and Blu-Ray of Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), and the other is Lost Keaton,...

The large glamour photography collection that included many iconic TV stars held by Calabasas auction house Profiles in History yielded two million dollars in sales during a two day event this past March, 2010. Harry Langdon.s working archive of photographs and negatives from the mid-1960s to 2008, which included shots of Angelina Jolie, Jon-Erik Hexum, Raquel Welch, Halle Berry, Richard Burton, George Clooney, Farrah Fawcett, Cary Grant, Heather Locklear, Sophia Loren, President Ronald Reagan, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Sinatra, and Will Smith among others was the top draw, selling for $122,400. Other highlights were the Jean Harlow Bear Rug Portfolio camera negative, shot by George Hurrell for Vanity Fair, which sold for $60,000...

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie's early photos were a big hit at a Profiles in History vintage glamour photography auction. Modelling shots of Angelina Jolie when she was 15 were displayed at a vintage Hollywood photo auction last weekend. A spokesperson reveals her pictures were sold separately and became highlights of the sale. "They garnered much bidding interest. They sold individually for over $2,500 each - more than six times their expected sale price," Hollywood.com quoted a spokesperson of Profiles in History as saying. Some of the Harry Langdon shots were featured in a lot that also included rare shots of ...

London, April 3 – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie’s early photos were a big hit at a Profiles in History vintage glamour photography auction.

Modelling shots of Angelina Jolie when she was 15 were displayed at a vintage Hollywood photo auction last weekend. A spokesperson reveals her pictures were sold separately and became highlights of the sale.

‘They garnered much bidding interest. They sold individually for over $2,500 each – more than six times their expected sale price,’ Hollywood.com quoted a spokesperson of Profiles in History as saying.

Some of the Harry Langdon shots.

Modelling shots of a teenage Angelina Jolie were big hits at a vintage Hollywood photo auction last weekend (26-27Mar10), selling for more than six times their expected sale price.

The early photos of a 15-year-old Jolie were part of Profiles in History's Vintage Glamour Photography auction.

Some of the Harry Langdon shots were featured in a lot that also included rare shots of Raquel Welch, Halle Berry, Richard Burton, George Clooney and Farrah Fawcett. These went under the hammer for $122,400 (GBP76,500).

But other Jolie pictures were sold separately and became highlights of the sale.

A Profiles in History spokesman says, "They garnered much bidding interest. They sold individually for over $2,500 each - more than six times their expected sale price."

Other highlights included an iconic shot of actress Jean Harlow posing on a bear rug, shot by George Hurrell for Vanity Fair, which sold for $60,000 (GBP37,500).

London, Mar 24 – Angelina Jolie’s first photographs as a teenage model are all set to go under the hammer.

At 15 years of age, the ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ actress posed for photographer Harry Langdon, donning a variety of provocative dresses, reports the Telegraph.

In one picture, the Oscar winner is seen sporting a flowing evening dress and hat, topped off with a pair of long white socks and chunky Dr Martens boots.

Others see the pouting teenager clad in swimwear, and outfits including a leopard print dress,.

Angelina Jolie has always taken a pretty picture. And now the fruits of one of her first photo shoots as a teenage model are going on sale Friday in California, starting at $600 apiece. Photographer Harry Langdon took the shots when Jolie was 15, with the future Oscar winner donning a variety of styles, including the grunge look emblematic of the early 1990s: a long gown paired with Dr. Martens. "Her smile is beautiful, but her best feature is her alluring look," Langdon said. These black-and-whites, not to be confused with the swimsuit photos taken by Sean McCall when Jolie was 16, are currently part of the Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer collection of rare Hollywood photographs...

Never before seen pics of Angelina Jolie modelling a leopardskin print dress aged 15 are to go up for auction. You can see the pictures here. The actress posed for photographer Harry Langdon in a series of sexy outfits that reveal her star potential from a young age. In one picture, the Oscar winner is seen sporting a flowing evening dress and hat, topped off with a pair of long white socks and chunky Dr Martens boots. Others feature the pouting teenager clad in swimwear, and outfits including a leopard print dress, and denim shorts and a crop top. The photos predate a swimwear shoot the star completed aged 16 with photographer Sean McCall. You can see those photos here. Jolie became a model in her teens while she was a drama student. Since then, the 34 year old has become a pin up...

Angelina Jolie had an “animalistic quality” since her teenage years. Shots of the “Salt” star during a photoshoot when she was just 15 have resurfaced as part of an auction by Profiles in History on Friday and Saturday.

The black-and-white pictures, shot by famed celebrity photographer Harry Langdon, were suggested by her father, Jon Voight.

Langdon told RadarOnline.com that at just 15, she was “a real natural” and already knew what image she wanted to project.

He said, “I admire her for coming alone. Daddies, mommies and boyfriends on a photo session can dampen the best performer’s performances.”...

Angelina Jolie showed an early animalistic quality that made her destined for stardom, according to a photographer who took early black and white shots of her. Her photos are part of a multi-million dollar Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer collection, which contains tens of thousands of the best examples of Hollywood fine art, which will be auctioned by Profiles in History on March 26-27, 2010. Photographer Harry Langdon of Beverly Hills, CA. shot the feral Jolie at the tender age of 15. Life-long collectors Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer will auction these and more on March 26 and March 27 through the prestigious Calabasas auction house: Profiles in History. Langdon was approached by...

Sure to add appeal to one lucky bidder's collection, Angelina Jolie's earliest modeling photographs are going up for sale next week. According to reports, the photographs are being sold by auction house 'Profiles in History' as part of their Original Vintage Glamour Photography sale on March 26 and 27. As for the Jolie shots, the Hollywood star was just 15-years-old when the racy collection of pictures were snapped by photographer Harry Langdon. In the set, Angelina appears in the black and white pictures with slicked back wet hair, on all fours in a bikini and clad in a leopard print dress. Also being sold are pictures of a young George Clooney, Drew Barrymore, Kirsten Dunst, Teri Hatcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ann-Margret, Halle Berry, Cher, Diana Ross, Will Smith, Rock Hudson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This has got to be so embarrassing for mom of six, Angelina Jolie!

Bikini-clad photos that the actress posed for — when she was only 15! — and which were taken by photographer Harry Langdon, are now for sale on the auction Web site profilesinhistory.com.

And we bet Angelina never dreamed she would marry Brad Pitt and become as famous as she is now when she took these!

In the photos, Angelina is wearing a bikini, on all fours, and has wet hair! Other photos of Angie are headshots, but the two very racy ones, taken in black and white, are up for auction, with bidding starting at $400-$600.

Profiles in History, the Calabasas, CA auction house which is selling the photographs, says they are “the world’s largest auctioneer of original Hollywood memorabilia.” Do you think Angelina will just buy them back herself so that she can own them?...

By Leah Rozen

Harry Langdon was a baby-faced comic star whose on-screen persona was that of a guileless man-child. He was, briefly, wildly successful in the 1920s, thanks to several movies directed by Frank Capra, who showcased Langdon’s cherubic simpleton to best advantage.

Following a plotline all too familiar even today, Langdon began to believe his publicity. He parted ways with Capra, turned auteur and began directing his own movies. The result: a succession of turkeys and a quick slide into obscurity. <img src="/files/u572/2010_cop_out_012.jpg" style="margin: 15px; height: 183px; w...