Showing posts with label Red Cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Cross. Show all posts

Thursday, April 25, 2019

The First New Mary Pickford Picture Since September 15th. -- April 25, 2019

Moving Picture World, 26-April-1919
Mary Pickford dressed as a Salvation Army girl to collect donations for a Red Cross drive.

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919
She sold newspapers and collected donations as part of the Salvation Army Home Service Fund Drive.

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919
"The first new Mary Pickford picture since September 15th."  Stars made a lot of movies in 1919.  A seven month gap was unusual.

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919
I like that finger.  I'd like to know why "Positively No Bookings...will be accepted" for Daddy Long Legs.

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Charles Chaplin Received $250 for a Kiss -- January 19, 2019

Battleboro Daily Reformer, January 9, 1919
100 years ago this month, in January, 1919, Chaplin's second release through First National, "Shoulder Arms," was still doing good business. I like this image.

Pensacola Journal, January 11, 1919
The same image appeared in an ad for a bill featuring Chaplin in "Shoulder Arms" and operatic tenor Enrico Caruso in My Cousin.  How is that for two cultural icons of the Twentieth Century?

Moving Picture World, 18-January-1919
Lady Stewart-McKenzie may have been married to James Stewart-Mackenzie, who was made 1st Baron Seaforth in 1921. She paid Charlie $250 for a kiss, which he donated to the Red Cross.

Moving Picture World, 18-January-1919

Newlyweds Charlie Chaplin and Mildred Harris hosted Charlie's half brother Syd and his wife for Christmas.

Moving Picture World, 25-January-1919
"The world having seen Chaplin, he will now see the world."  I think he finally left for Europe in 1921.

Moving Picture World, 25-January-1919

A large display to promote "Shoulder Arms."  Read the text in the box.

Moving Picture World, 04-January-1919
Pat Sullivan's studio released a second animated Chaplin film, ""Over the Rhine With Charlie." Otto Messmer did most of the work.