Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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biographical sketches Millions," "Hell's Highway." Died 1944 KIRTLEY, VIRGINIA b. Bowling Green, Mo. 5'5, 129 lbs. Stock, L.A. Screen: — Imp, Keystone, Selig. KNOTT, LYDIA b. Tyner, Ind., 1873. $'4, 120 lbs. Son, Lambert Hillyer. Legitimate stage and stock. Entered I nee pictures. "The Clodhopper," "Turn to the Right," "Our Dancing Daughters," "Skippy." LAUREL, STAN (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) b. Ulverston, England, 1895. 5'8, 160 lbs. Karno Pantomime Co., circus, vaudeville, etc. Came to America in 1910 as understudy to Chaplin in "A Night in an English Music Hall." Entered movies in 1917 for Hal Roach — c. 50 comedies, some burlesquing feature hits: — "The Egg," "Mud and Sand," "Robin Hood Jr.," "When Knights were Cold," "White Wings," etc. Also directed for a while. Never made a real hit until 1926 when he teamed up with Oliver (Babe) Hardy who had a similar career. The team of Laurel Sc Hardy made many successful comedies: — "Do Detectives Think," "Brats," "Pardon Us," "Pack Up your Troubles," "Swiss Miss," "Saps at Sea," etc. LAMPTON, DEE b. Ft. Worth, Texas, 1898. $'4, 300 lbs. 1 year on the road. Screen: — Essanay, "A Night in the Show," Keystone, Rolin, Lonesome Luke series with Harold Lloyd, Skinny Lampton series. LEHRMAN, HENRY ("Path£") b. Vienna, Austria, 1886. Screen: — Biograph, Imp, Kinemacolor, Keystone, Sterling, L-Ko (Lehrman-Knockout). Produced Fox Sunshine Bathing Beauty comedies (1917-18), series with Lloyd Hamilton and Virginia Rappe (1919), "Wild Women and Tame Lions," "A High Diver's Last Kiss," "The Twilight Baby," Features: — "Chicken a la King," "Why Sailors Go Wrong," "New Years Eve." LONDON, BABE b. Des Moines, Iowa, 5% 215 lbs. "Merely Mary Ann," "A Day's Pleasure," "When the Clouds Roll By," "When Romance Rides." Christie Comedies: — "Second Childhood," "A Hula Honeymoon," "Be Yourself," etc. "Flirting with Love." MANN, HANK (David W. Liebeman) b. New York, 1888. 5'8i/2, 182 lbs. Some stage experience. Keystone (1912) left with Ford Sterling for Sterling Co. (1914), L-Ko, back to Keystone, Fox. "Patent Leather Kid," "Broadway After Midnight," "Garden of Eden," "City Lights," "Scarface," "The Devil is a Woman," "Great Dictator," "Hollywood Cavalcade," "Perils of Pauline."