Century Comedies -- They Stand Unequalled -- August 26, 2022

Motion Picture News, 05-August-1922

Century Comedies promoted their stars: Lee Moran, Brownie the Century Wonder Dog, Johnny K Fox and Queenie the Horse. Their biggest star, Baby Peggy was moving on to feature films. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Betty May was signed to be Lee Moran's leading lady. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Arvid Gillstrom had a long career directing short comedies. Century moved him from the Brownie series to Lee Moran's. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Lee Moran's former partner Eddie Lyons was starring in comedies for Arrow. 

Motion Picture News, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Uncle Dan Mason, who had played the Skipper in a series of short comedies based on Fontaine Fox's comic panel The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains, moved to FBO to star in a series of Plum Center Comedies.

Motion Picture News, 12-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Motion Picture News, 12-August-1922

I don't know much about Gloria Joy, whose "Joy Comedies" were to be released by FBO. Sherwood McDonald directed.

Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922

William Fox produced several comedy series, starring Lupino Lane, Clyde Cook, Al St John and the Lee Kids. The other article mentions the start of Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures Corporation. We will see more about that in later months. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Lupino Lane was a remarkable acrobatic comedian. Ida Lupino was his cousin. 

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Sisters Jane and Katherine Lee had been in movies for nearly ten years. "The Baby Grands."

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 19-August-1922

Harry Cohn, his brother Jack and Joe Brandt provided the initials for C.B.C. Film Sales Corp. The Hallroom Boys Comedies were a long running series of short comedies, based on a comic strip by Harold MacGill.

Educational released the Mermaid Comedies, which starred Lloyd Hamilton and others. 

Moving Picture World, 05-August-1922

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Paul Terry made the animated Aesop's Fables series.

Moving Picture World, 26-August-1922

Max Fleischer and his brother Dave made the animated Out of the Inkwell series.

Give Comedy a Chance! -- May 24, 2022

Motion Picture Classic, May, 1922

Baby Peggy Montgomery grew to become Century's biggest comedy star, even surpassing her old comrade Brownie the Century Wonder Dog. Universal released Century Comedies.

Moving Picture Weekly, 13-May-1922

The rest of the Century lineup included Brownie the Century Wonder Dog, Lee Moran, Charles Doherty, Harry Sweet and a new kid, Johnny K Fox. Johnny Fox's film career lasted until 1929.

Moving Picture Weekly, 27-May-1922

Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922

The Christie Film Company was a major producer of short comedies from 1911 to 1933. Al Christie was the director and Charles Christie ran the business. The Christies featured situation comedy more than the slapstick favored by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach.

Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922

Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922

Snub Pollard and others starred in one reelers for Hal Roach.

Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922

Australian Billy Bevan was Sennett's busiest star. 

Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922

Moving Picture World, 27-May-1922

Joe Martin was an every-day average orangutan who was frequently billed as a chimp. With his wife, Mrs Joe Martin, he starred in a series of short comedies for Universal-Jewel. Lee Moran had been a member of Lyons and Moran, with Eddy Lyons.

Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922

Lloyd Hamilton, who had been the Ham of Ham and Bud, starred in a series of Mermaid Comedies distributed by Educational Comedies. Most of them were destroyed in a vault fire.

Moving Picture World, 13-May-1922

Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922

Moving Picture World, 27-May-1922

Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922

Stan Laurel launched a new series of comedies. I like the image. 

Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922

"Laurel is not an imitator of Chaplin."

Century Comedies -- Just Look at the Divilish (sic) Light in Her Eye -- February 25, 2022

Motion Picture News, 25-February-1921

Baby Peggy had grown to become Century's biggest comedy star, even surpassing her old comrade Brownie the Century Wonder Dog. I don't know why the ad calls her look "divilish," unless the ad was written by one of Carl Laemmle's recently arrived nephews. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, was known to give jobs to relatives. 

Motion Picture News, 18-February-1921

"Play Century Notes For Your Cash Register." "Century note" is slang for a one-hundred-dollar bill. This ad promotes Century Comedies' four series, starring Lee Moran, Harry Sweet, Baby Peggy and Brownie the Century Wonder-Dog.

Motion Picture News, 25-February-1921

Century boss Julius Stern, Carl Laemmle's brother-in-law, had plans to expand Century. He hired Henry (Pathé) Lehrman to produce "twelve super comedies." 

Moving Picture Weekly, 24-February-1922

"Join Hands With This Big Four."

Moving Picture Weekly, 11-February-1922

I like this photo of Brownie. 

Motion Picture News, 18-February-1921

"Rooted Deep in Laughter." I like Brownie's hat. 

Moving Picture Weekly, 18-February-1922

One series of Arrow Comedies starred Lee Moran's old partner, Eddie Lyons "that inimitable comedian."

Motion Picture News, 11-February-1921

Arrow offered 52 two-reelers a year. 

Motion Picture News, 18-February-1921

"The Funniest Fellow in Films." I know some people who would debate that. 

Motion Picture News, 04-February-1921

A San Francisco exhibiter says, "His Comedies Are Greatest Two Reelers on Market."

Motion Picture News, 18-February-1921

"Beauty and Brains." Dorothy Devore starred in Christie Comedies. Here she shows her versatility. 

Motion Picture News, 11-February-1921

As I mentioned last month, I don't remember reading about Folly Comedies. I always thought George Ovey did not look funny. Vernon Dent later worked with the Three Stooges.

Los Angeles Times, 01-February-1922

Snub Pollard and pretty Marie Mosquini starred in a series of comedies for Hal Roach. This item says they got engaged. I think she was already married. They never married each other, as far as I know. Anyway, they look happy.

Motion Picture News, 25-February-1921

Moving Picture Weekly, 04-February-1922

"Universal Short Stuff" included Century and Jewel Comedies.