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Cameo Comedies are a series of short comedy films made in the United States. The films are one-reel shorts from Jack White's Educational Pictures.[1] The films were produced for $5,000 each.[2] They were made from 1922 to 1932, spanning the silent and talkie eras.
Cliff Bowes, Phil Dunham[3] and Lupino Lane[4] were among the actors. Supporting actors included Wallace Lupino,[4] Amma Styers[5] and Virginia Vance.
Mermaid Comedies were Educational's line of two-reeelers.[6]
Al Alt was a starring performer in a few of the Cameo films.[7]
Filmography
- Drenched (1924)[8]
- Sporting Life (1925)
- Scrambled Eggs (1925)[9]
- The Lucky Duck
- Kitty, Kitty
- The Mad Rush
- That's My Meat
- One Quiet Night
- Queenie of Hollywood
- Once A Hero
- The Tamale Vendor
- Idle Roomers[10]
- Anybody's Goat
- Bridge Wives
- The Galloping Ghost
- Honeymoom Trio
- One Quiet Night
- Smart Work[11]
- Hard Work, extant[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ross, Matthew. "Cameo Comedies". The Lost Laugh.
- ↑ King, Rob (2017). ""The Spice of the Program"". Hokum!. University of California Press. pp. 95–124. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1pq348z.8.
- ↑ Walker, Brent E. (January 13, 2010). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457076 – via Google Books.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Flashbacks and Fadeouts". The Washington Post. April 1, 1928. p. F2. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ↑ "Sidewalks of New York Put In Film". New York Times. June 5, 1927. p. X3. Retrieved 28 July 2021 – via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
- ↑ Jr, Ivan G. Shreve (November 21, 2012). "Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: Passing around the hat (#3 in a continuing series)".
- ↑ "Educational Pictures". The Lost Laugh.
- ↑ http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Silent-Laughter-2018-Programme-Notes.pdf
- ↑ Alanen, Antti (October 5, 2016). "Antti Alanen: Film Diary: Al Christie – Girls".
- ↑ Yallop, David (October 23, 2014). The Day the Laughter Stopped. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 9781472116598 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Webb, Graham (July 10, 2020). "Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959". McFarland – via Google Books.
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