"Yum Yum, eat 'em up!" - Bumbo, "The Kid From Borneo"
Thomas Benton Roberts was the only celebrity at the Hollywood ‘80 Sons of the Desert convention who signed my autograph book twice. I reckon that I had him do this because I really had no idea who he was at the time. Later on I realized that he appeared in the classic Laurel and Hardy […]
Eddie Quillan (seen at right with comedy producer Mack Sennett) had a long and distinguished film and TV career, playing more than 200 roles from the golden age of slapstick to the late 1980’s. My interest in Mr. Quillan - as you might suspect - was due to the role he played in the 1934 […]
I first met Kenny Carroll on April 8, 1978, which was the day that my family moved into our house on Winterset Drive in Beavercreek. He and his family lived two doors up from our new home. Amidst the hustle and bustle of move-in day, Kenny came over and introduced himself. He and I became fast friends when he took me […]
For years, Laurel and Hardy’s films from the 1940’s have been picked on, put down, and shunned by most Laurel and Hardy fans. In recent days, the films have seen new life by getting very nice DVD reissues and have been re-evaluated by many fans who now consider them small masterpieces in their own right. […]
William Janney was the dramatic leading man in Laurel and Hardy’s 1934 feature film Bonnie Scotland. Never mind that his scenes as the romatic interest to starlet June Lang were more-or-less distractions to the boys’ comedy in the picture - that’s not his fault. He was there working alongside the boys and that’s enough to thrill […]