Finishing this extended plunge into the slapstick of The Shorts Department, the spotlight shines on the guy who cranked out numerous Three Stooges shorts in the latter 1940's and early 1950's, longtime Columbia Studio soundman Edward Bernds.
Chicago-born Edward Bernds was a pioneering soundman who, after working with Frank Capra and Howard Hawks, would become a prolific director of silver screen comedies, television series and psychotronic B-films. He lived to be 95 and thus gave numerous interviews.
Mr. Bernds had the unenviable task of directing Three Stooges comedies when Curly Howard's health was rapidly declining in the mid-1940's.
He did a remarkable job working around the NYUK NYUK NYUK king's health issues and getting Curly's last great comedy performances on film.
He also did a stellar job handling the comedy team's transition from Curly to Shemp.
Greg Hilbrich's historical overview of The Shorts Department adds: "In 1944, Edward Bernds, a sound mixer at Columbia since the shorts department's beginnings, began writing scripts for the shorts, only later to find himself in the director's chair. Bernds is responsible for some of the finest two-reel comedies Columbia made."
His Columbia comedy short subjects featured unusual choices of headliners. For example, Billie Burke, ubiquitous character actress known for, among numerous parts, Glinda The Good Witch from The Wizard Of Oz, starred in Columbia 2-reelers. While Billie remains the least likely to headline a Three Stooges style knockabout comedy, it happened!
Ex-pugilists Max Baer and "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom swapped taking punches in the ring for Moe Howard style mega-slaps in the movies!
Edward Bernds directed several short subjects starring character actor and cartoon voice artist Sterling Holloway.
The slapstick team of Gus Schilling & Richard Lane made a series of very funny and very over-the-top comedy shorts in the Three Stooges knockabout school.
Future "3rd Stooges" Joe De Rita and Joe Besser also starred in 2-reelers directed by Edward Bernds at Columbia.
After leaving the Columbia Shorts Department in 1952, Edward Bernds directed films for Allied Artists, including The Bowery Boys Meet The Monsters, starring Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey and Guy In A Gorilla Suit.
Edward Bernds' extended career in movies and TV included psychotronic B-films.
Including the classic SPACE X-7!
Hard not to love a guy who directed Queen Of Outer Space!
Today we tip a battered top hat worn by a boisterous and three sheets to the wind Ted Healy to the great Moe Howard, ace of slapstick!
After a decade performing in vaudeville and stage and films as part of the popular knockabout act Ted Healy & His Stooges, Moe succeeded Ted as "the head stooge" when the team and Healy parted ways and The Three Stooges began starring in short subjects for Columbia Pictures in 1934.
Still hear the comedy team's various theme songs whenever I see the "A Screen Gems Film Presentation: Television Subsidiary" logo.
And now for some choice slapstick snippets. . .
As we continue having a rough go through 2026, a bit of "laughter is the best medicine" from Moe Howard, born on this day in 1897, and the Three Stooges, starting with the following excellent documentary by his son Paul, proves a most worthy Rx.
Love this interview with Moe.
Moe's daughter, Joan Howard Maurer, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman in February 1983. The early 1980's NBC incarnation of Letterman's freewheeling program frequently booked guests representing the golden age of classic comedy from movies, TV and radio.
Now it's time, on Moe's natal anniversary, for some big time Stoogery! This comedy fan is especially fond of the first 2-reelers they made for Columbia in 1934-1935.
The blonde in the following opus looks vaguely familiar. . .
Staggering through March 2026 and noting that this year continues painfully and unrelentingly resembling the following. . .
Asking if anything can get one's mind off the dumpster fire even momentarily, the answer to that question remains an emphatic NO, although the next best thing is to celebrate NATIONAL FLAPJACK DAY!
That means it's flapjack time, starting with Mickey Mouse pancakes.
Even better and enthusiastically in the National Flapjack Day spirit: Cuphead!
Do we love pancakes too much? Could this blogger's long-suffering partner be featured in the Women Who Love Men Who Love Pancakes Too Much book?
Yes, guilty as charged.
Would $5 for all you can eat pancakes appeal to the gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog? Absolutely!
Not surprisingly, tons of expert advice on how to make flapjacks, from Epicurious to Bon Appétit to America's Test Kitchens to Michelin to New York Times can be found. We'll get it down to two videos: the ever-wisecracking Binging With Babish and Alton Brown's Good Eats.
Now we flip to flapjacks served by great movie comedians and animated cartoon characters. First and foremost: silent movie comedy queen Alice Howell, cavalierly flipping pancakes at 2:11 in the very funny 1920 opus Cinderella Cinders.
Next up: Los Tres Stupidos!
National Flapjack Day in Cartoonland commences with post-World War II Popeye serving green pancakes to his obnoxious nephews in Spinach Vs. Hamburgers. Noting the presence of an excerpt from the staggeringly racist Pop-Pie A La Mode in Spinach Vs Hamburgers, it remains flabbergasting that this cartoon was run constantly on TV in the 1960's. As far as National Flapjack Day goes, I personally would go to both Spinach Heaven and Wimpy's Hamburger Haven, with the sincere hope that Chef Popeye makes a spinach Spanish omelet to go with the green flapjacks!
The New Rochelle studio of Paul Terry produced several flapjack flippin' endeavors. Found the following two pancake-packed 1930's Terrytoons and it’s highly likely there are more.
While I like that in the following Terrytoon, the eatery Nick’s Coffee Pot is literally a coffee pot, it’s just a bit odd, even in the Cartoon Universe, that the clientele are insects.
Meanwhile, Chuck Jones, who, unlike Joe Barbera, would scoff at Terrytoons, starred one of his second-tier headliners, the ever-nonplussed Conrad Cat (from The Bird Came C.O.D. and Conrad The Sailor), as cheerful pancake-flipper in Porky’s Cafe.
This black & white Looney Tune is from 1942, the year when Chuck and crew produced such hilarious classic cartoons as My Favorite Duck and The Dover Boys. Note to readers: enjoy the following cartoon and pardon the inexplicable 1937 opening theme music.
Closing this National Flapjack Day post, we shall beckon back to the 1950's. It's astounding, especally to young people, that not all that long ago there actually was an Aunt Jemima's Kitchen restaurant at Disneyland and a national fast food chain named Sambo's. Yes, boomers who are still here (and eating) in 2026 actually dined at those restaurants. Some eateries were better than others and some were downright lousy! In particular, yellow pancakes were a bad sign of bad food to come.
As grotesque as these companies' product logos remain and as cringe-worthy as the chain resturants could be, they remind us who invented American cuisine and developed, among highly creative cookery in many U.S. cities, the amazing food of New Orleans, where no doubt spicy flapjacks can still be enjoyed.
Today's post shall be devoted to films which debuted on April 17, which in godawful 2025 has been one awful day. Shall start with a U. S. Department of Agriculture short subject distributed by the U.S. Forest Service, starring Laurel and Hardy, with narration by MGM's Pete Smith.
Headliners from Famous Studios this writer actually likes: the wiseguy duo of Tommy Tortoise & Moe Hare.
Closing: the April 17, 1937 release Porky's Duck Hunt, a Termite Terrace piece-de-resistance directed by Tex Avery, featuring the first appearance of Daffy Duck and Bob Clampett's uninhibited animation.
Both yours truly and Madame Blogmeister did our civic duty and voted by mail last month.
Then we kicked back and relaxed with the following favorite election-themed tune, courtesy of intrepid Swing Ticket candidate Louis Jordan.
It's true - every presidential election, this way too well-informed for his own good political junkie and diehard classic comedy aficionado MUST watch the hilarious Moe, Larry and Shemp in Three Dark Horses!
No matter how many times I see this Three Stooges opus in which our knucklehead heroes unwittingly work for super-corrupt griftin' grabbin' graftin' slimeball politicos, the result, invariably, is me ROFL and LMFAO.
The 1952 Columbia 2-reeler opens with the line, "what we need are delegates who are too dumb to think and will do what we tell them." Could we get exponentially more stupid and politics even sleazier in the 72 years since slap happy Jules White and the Columbia Shorts Department produced this? YES!
To decompress after a ghastly and interminable election cycle, it is now time to watch a few classic animated cartoons, starting with the 1950's Famous Studios version of Popeye the Sailor.
In Popeye For President (1956), as usual, the voice acting by Jack Mercer (credited for story on this cartoon), Jackson Beck and Mae Questel is stellar.
Ever since I first saw it on TV way back in the 1960's enjoyed the musical cartoon Olive Oyl For President (1948). Voice actress and comedienne par excellence Mae Questel delivers the song with considerable gusto.
Little did I know, Olive Oyl For President was a very creative cheater, some it re-using ideas from the Fleischer Studios cartoon (which, incidentally, we post for EVERY election), the imaginative, clever and funny Betty Boop For President (1932).
What classic cartoon can we finish an Election Day post with? This one: Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam in BALLOT BOX BUNNY, directed by Friz Freleng.
Here, having voted via absentee ballot, the guy responsible for 1,368 posts (!!!) at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog sits quietly in front of NYC's Russ & Daughters, anticipates the absolutely amazing food within, and remembers the blazing greatness and mindblowing musical talent of the recently passed bandleader/composer/arranger/producer/brass virtuoso Quincy Jones.
Among a list of accomplishments way too lengthy to recount here, Quincy Jones led an astounding big band (especially astonishing on the two Live In Paris albums) in the early 1960's.
Not surprisingly, brilliant, inventive and memorable arrangements by Quincy Jones, as well as rip-roaring musicianship, are the order of the day.
Quincy leads a star-studded killer big band - and the existing footage of it in concert rivals The Atomic Count Basie for hard swingin' goodness.
Quincy's superlative arrangements would be heard a few years later when Mr. Jones conducted the Count Basie Orchestra for the epic Sinatra At The Sands concert album.
Any and all interviews with Mr. Jones are worth checking out.
Ranking high on the short list of great moments in television: Quincy's appearances on Late Night With David Letterman.
Quincy Jones also appeared on Conan O'Brien's show, our favorite of the more recent (post-Johnny Carson, post-NBC David Letterman) late night TV programs.
At Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, we extended a hat tip to the maestro of maestros in the following March 2021 post, which noted
that perennial favorites Albert Einstein, Steph Curry, Michael Caine and Quincy share a March 14 birthday.
We wish readers of Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog a Happy (and safe) Thanksgiving!
"One of the nicest compliments I'd received for my now-dead Ted Healy page was that Ted, were he alive, would likely have slapped my back hard enough to sting, bought me a stiff drink, and then done something absolutely horrible and emotionally scarring to me." Aaron Neathery
For post #1301, we shine the spotlight on a still controversial showbiz great from comedy, vaudeville and classic movies, Ted Healy (1896-1937).
We're a tad surprised the wiseguy co-founder of The Three Stooges, whose life is covered in detail in Bill Cassara's terrific book Nobody's Stooge has never been profiled here at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog.
It is difficult to describe the extent to which the fast-talking and at times abrasive comedian, whose success originating the role of sharp-tongued master of ceremonies paralleled the sarcastic and caustic Frank Fay and preceded fellow m.c. comics Milton Berle and Bob Hope was an ever-reckless wild and crazy guy: gambler, boozer, carouser, womanizer and pyromaniac, but also generous to friends and charitable organizations, especially those directly helping children. One thinks of Chris Farley, but the rotund and larger-than-life physical comedian of the 1990's was, while equally out of control, in general was a much nicer guy than Ted. Alas, all these decades later, alcoholism and substance abuse still can be called "Comedians' Disease."
Born Clarence Ernest Lee Nash in Kaufman, Texas on October 1, 1896, Ted Healy overcame a very tough upbringing that included more than its share of deprivation to become the highest paid performer in vaudeville, at first as part of a team with his wife Betty Brown. The duo appeared on Broadway, among other extravaganzas, in the Shubert Brothers' The Passing Show of 1926. Among the various Stooges joining them for individual gags in the late 1920's as Ted's "Racketeers" and "Country Gentlemen" were Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Larry Fine.
The Wikipedia entry on Ted Healy elaborates: Howard's brother Shemp joined the act as a heckler in early 1924, but both Howards temporarily left show business in mid 1925. Ted and Betty were hired in June 1925 to star in the Broadway revue Earl Carroll Vanities of 1925. Ted brought some of the routines he developed with the Howard brothers, using three comics under contract to Carroll, (Dave Chasen, Kenneth Lackey, and Lou Warren). After a contract dispute whereby it was determined that Carroll was in the wrong, Ted and Betty left "Vanities" in October 1925 with Lou Warren and relaunched their Syncopated Toes revue, now retitled Fun in the Healy Manner. By January 1926 Shemp Howard had returned, and they successfully toured the country through the summer of 1926.
Ted and Betty received another Broadway opportunity, this time from the Shubert Brothers, who hired them for The Passing Show of 1926, with Ted bringing Shemp and Lou along. Passing only enjoyed a preview tour and did not open on Broadway, but the Shuberts and Healy retooled the show into the successful A Night in Spain, with Phil Baker joining the Healys as its stars. For Spain, Ted utilized four stooges in some scenes: Shemp, Lou Warren, brother-in-law Sam "Moody" Braun, and Dick Hakins. Arriving on Broadway in May 1927 after four months of successful previews, Hakins fell ill and was replaced by comedy/specialty dancer Bobby Pinkus. In November 1927, Spain began a national tour with four months at Chicago's Four Cohans Theatre. Larry Fine, who had been working as the lead performer and house MC at Chicago's Rainbo Gardens nightclub and restaurant, was added to Healy's group of comics in late March 1928.
Rather amazingly, Ted's silver screen debut actually took place in SILENTS, before he joined forces onstage with Moe, Larry and Shemp or Curly, in Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes, a Hal Roach Studios short subject directed by Stan Laurel (yes, that Stan Laurel) and featuring Pathé and Samuel Goldwyn starlet Helene Chadwick, supported by Ted and perennial Laurel & Hardy nemesis Jimmie Finlayson.
Although it would be a decade later, in his last appearances in Warner Brothers features, before the full realization of what Healy's gruff silver screen persona could be, Ted's talent, charisma and edgy intensity are already notable in this Hal Roach "All-Star" comedy.
Ted Healy, who hired Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine and (later) Jerry "Curly" Howard, started working with his childhood pal Moe way back in 1912 and administered the first of a gazillion onstage slaps. It was the team's success in A Night In Venice, the "New Musical Extravaganza," choreographed by Busby Berkeley and Chester Hale, produced by The Messrs. Shubert at NYC's Sam S. Shubert Theatre in 1929 that led to the Stooges' talkie debut in the Fox feature SOUP TO NUTS. In both, diminutive goofball comic and xylophonist Freddie Sanborn was added to the team, at this point known as Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen.
The following presents the vaudeville act of the Ted Healy & His Stooges. It's a routine that gets repeated in their subsequent appearances in MGM films. Behold, the first silver screen slaps!
The team, with Jerry "Curly" Howard replacing his older brother Shemp, who signed with Vitaphone "Big V" Comedies, then appeared as comic relief in feature films for MGM and Universal. Believe it or not, Moe, Larry, Curly and Ted were actually in the same movie with MGM mega-stars Joan Crawford and Clark Gable!
In Meet The Baron, they are among a slew of comics supporting radio star Jack "Baron Munchausen" Pearl.
Ted & The Stooges, Durante and versatile character actress Edna May Oliver, who played the Margaret Dumont role in several Wheeler & Woolsey films, end up with the memorable scenes in Meet The Baron.
The MGM short subjects are a hodgepodge, several alternating vaudeville routines by Ted Healy & His Stooges with production numbers from early talkie musicals, many featuring the Albertina Rasch Dancers.
The Stooges are billed as "Howard, Fine & Howard."
Added to the annals of Stoogedom in the MGM films was eccentric dancer and even more eccentric comedienne Marion Wright a.k.a. Bonny Bonnell. She's the fairy godmother in the aforementioned very pre-Code bedtime story NERTSERY RHYMES and performs a wildly over-the-top dance number, starting at 8:16, in BEER AND PRETZELS (released theatrically on August 26, 1933). It's off-the-wall and one for the books.
London After Midnight is still missing but the third MGM Ted & Stooges short, Hello Pop, released to movie theatres on September 16, 1933, actually turned up after decades as a lost film! Ted, Moe, Larry, Curly and female Stooge Bonny Bonnell are on hand, along with ubiquitous character actor Henry Armetta.
First saw the following opus, Plane Nuts, one of those hybrids of Stooge vaudeville and campy production numbers from musicals (in this case, the 1931 feature Flying High) in a Three Stooges tribute program at San Francisco's long closed Avenue Theatre way back in the 1980's.
The audience, expecting a Columbia Three Stooges comedy along the lines of Del Lord masterpieces Pardon My Scotch and Dizzy Doctors, booed. These days, I find Plane Nuts and the other Ted-Stooges-Bonny short subjects quite entertaining!
Strangest of all the Healy & Stooges MGMs: THE BIG IDEA. Ted's comedic style makes one think of Milton Berle. Moe, Larry and Curly barely appear in it at all. Bonny Bonnell is actually funny in the role of a deranged cleaning lady. Also in the cast of THE BIG IDEA: Muriel Evans, the beautiful and wry supporting player from Charley Chase's Hal Roach Studios comedy short subjects, westerns and MGM features, who seems more than a tad too normal for this bent opus.
The Stooges and Healy went their separate ways in 1934. Shemp starred in short subjects for Vitaphone. Jules White's Columbia Shorts Department signed Moe, Larry and Curly, where they worked with such super talented comedy director/writers as Del Lord, Jack "Preston Black" White and Charley Chase.
Ted developed his comic character actor chops further in movies - both comedies and dramas - for MGM and Warner Brothers, with Varsity Show and Hollywood Hotel proving to be standouts.
The very enjoyable Varsity Show includes a rousing and downright amazing musical number that begins with the legendary dance team of Buck & Bubbles, and includes Dick Powell, Johnny "Scat" Davis and very funny moments in which Ted Healy, Mabel Todd and Sterling Holloway also indulge in a bit of terpsichore.
Varsity Show closes with a customarily spectacular Busby Berkeley production number.
We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog consider the best silver screen performance of Ted Healy to be in Hollywood Hotel.
In both Hollywood Hotel and Varsity Show, Ted met his zany match when he was teamed with Mabel Todd, the ultra-goofy comedienne and singer who co-starred with Morey Amsterdam among the cast of the Al Pierce & His Gang radio show.
The funniest Mabel Todd bits this writer has seen are from Hollywood Hotel.
Further illustrating that chemistry between the blustery Healy and the daffy Todd: the complete version of the "Let That Be A Lesson To You" number. In this comedy buff's opinion, the following very enjoyable number from Hollywood Hotel, LET THAT BE A LESSON 2 YOU, is Healy's greatest appearance on celluloid. He works beautifullu with the film's star Dick Powell, as well as Mr. Slow Burn himself Edgar Kennedy. Throughout Hollywood Hotel, an excellent roster of movie comedians have a blast, as does singer Johnny "Scat" Davis.
Hard-boiled Ted and uber-wacky Mabel play off each other quite well and it is a shame that due to Healy's untimely death on December 21, 1937, the mug and the zany did not work together any more. The moviegoing audience must have approved of the Healy-Todd team, as they were slated to appear again as comic relief in Gold Diggers In Paris.
While Ted formed the Three Stooges act, it's apparent that he, emphatically, is funnier as a solo comic, WITHOUT his Stooges/Racketeers/Country Gentlemen or such second string proto-Stooges as Dick Hakins, Sammy Wolfe and Paul "Mousie" Garner. His death was a tragedy worthy of film noir and, alas, he died in 1937, before that genre got going. Healy did quite well playing character roles in such MGM features as the 1936 epic San Francisco, so perhaps, as his fellow wiseguy Lee Tracy did, he could have found a niche in 1940's cinema. Would have been very interesting to see Ted end the 1930's and 1940's playing character roles in Warner Bros. crime pictures. That's conjecture, just as where John Belushi's career would have gone had he survived is conjecture.
In closing acknowledgements, must note, in addition to Bill Cassara's book, the Ted Healy filmography from threestooges.net, a good entry on Stooge Wiki, as well as a series of articles posted by the aforementioned Aaron Neathery on the long-gone but not forgotten Third Banana blog (especially Ted Healy: In Memoriam, posted on December 21, 2006 and The Mystery of Bonnie Bonnell, posted May 20, 2006).
Known as the Clark & McCullough historian, Mr. Neathery also maintained a Ted Healy page way back in the 'oughts and was quite taken aback by the vehement and vitriolic trashing of Healy - "the kind of scorn usually reserved for serial killers and politicians" - by fervent Stoogephiles. As noted, I have witnessed this at screenings where the MGM "Howard, Fine & Howard" films were programmed alongside 1930's Columbia 2-reelers - and agreed with this unenthusiastic assessment until I saw Ted Healy's stellar post-Stooge work as a character actor and solo comic.
As our last post, plugging the Orinda Theater's September 23 classic movie night, lo and behold, was Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog post #1300, we are pleased as pomegranates to tip the beat-up top hat to Ted Healy, King of Stooges, for post #1301.
Today we pay tribute to comedy icon and key Stooge Jerome Lester Horwitz, a.k.a. Curly Howard, born on October 22, 1903.
We'll kick this off with a certain scene that always gets me ROFL - and the Jump 'n the Saddle Band's 1983 hit record "The Curly Shuffle."
Yes, we indeed have binge-watched Three Stooges comedies on YouTube, Daily Motion and DVD on many occasions.
One of the numerous Daily Motion channels, "Film Gorillaz," among dozens of 1930's movies, posted the following compilation of Moe, Larry & Curly classics. It includes such famous Three Stooges extravaganzas as A-Plumbing We Will Go and Micro-Phonies, but also several of the earliest Columbia 2-reelers, made in 1934.
These first season entries - Woman Haters, Punch Drunks, Men In Black and Three Little Pigskins - feature some of the funniest, wildest, most energetic and incendiary performances of the then-youthful Curly. Co-stars include comedy royalty from Lucille Ball to Dorothy Granger to Marjorie White to Arthur Housman and, as always, the ubiquitous Bud Jamison.
Noting how Curly successfully brought 1920's style slapstick into talkies, we single out Ants In The Pantry, one of several hilarious Stooge vehicles directed in 1936-1937 by Jack "Preston Black" White, the architect of excellent 1920's silent 2-reelers starring sad sack comic Lloyd Hamilton at Educational Pictures (a.k.a. "The Spice Of The Program").
Of the Three Stooges series' many dessert-throwing epics, especially like the cream puff war that closes Slippery Silks (1936), also directed by "Preston Black."
And, speaking of Del Lord of Mack Sennett Productions and Columbia Shorts Department fame, here's Dizzy Doctors, one of the funniest of Del's numerous Stooge comedies.
Jules White's greatest achievement of many in Stoogedom over three decades?
Arguably that would be the comedy team enthusiastically delivering an eye-poke to Adolph Hitler and his henchman in You Nazty Spy! and I'll Never Heil Again. Still love the Howard boys' Shicklegruber sendups!
Wonder if the Howard brothers knew Charlie Chaplin, who was working on The Great Dictator when the Stooges made You Nazty Spy!
Dutiful But Dumb includes a personal favorite Curly sequence, the battle with the oyster soup, as well as a cameo by the very funny Keystone and Charlie Chaplin comedies supporting player Chester Conklin. This is fitting, as a previous appearance of "the oyster stew bit" was in a Mack Sennett silent classic, Ice Cold Cocos, starring Billy Bevan and directed by Stooge auteur Del Lord.
In this writer's opinion, Curly and the Stooges were at their very best in 1934-1941. After that, Curly's health setbacks began to be obvious onscreen. Unfortunately, Harry Cohn said no to putting the series on hiatus or giving Curly time off, as Three Stooges comedies were by far the most popular productions of the Columbia Shorts Department.
After a massive stroke felled Curly in May 1946, The Three Stooges regrouped and subsequently made a comeback with Shemp Howard back in the team as the third Stooge, former Columbia Pictures soundman Edward Bernds directing and Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka and perennial bad guy Kenneth McDonald contributing their customary stellar supporting work.
Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog toasts Curly Howard, The Three Stooges and the both invaluable and funny supporting players Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent and Symona Boniface.
In closing, we raise our tumblers not just to Curly, Moe, Larry and Shemp, but the many other comedy greats who ended up, either briefly or for a lengthy stretch, starring in Columbia 2-reelers.
These include prolific silent movie comedians Harry Langdon, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase and Andy Clyde.
These outstanding comedians repeatedly made audiences laugh out loud way back when - and still do in 2022!
