The Sad Life of Miss PEGGY PAGE

 

Giving Credit Where It's Due

 

The Sad Life of Miss PEGGY PAGE

    At long last I’ve been able to add new information on Charlie Chaplin’s frequent Keystone leading lady and mystery girl of 1914. For nearly a hundred years she’s been completely overlooked and sadly unidentified to the general public until twelve years ago when one diligent researcher put the potential name of Helen Carruthers to her face. Now presumedly identified, further stories of Helen’s near-fatal suicide attempt in Oregon in May 1915 turned up and, ten years later in the summer of 1925, her tragic (accidental or suicidal?) demise — as young Baroness Helen (nee Carruthers) zur Muehlen — from a window at the Ritz-Carlton in New York City. Quite sad for a sweet girl from San Antonio, Texas. Yet whatever few 1915 newspaper photos I had of Helen Carruthers to compare with were often dark and impossible to compare to for verification with the films of the movie actress. Several years ago I was fortunate to luck onto an original, sharp 1925 glossy photo of a smiling Helen Carruthers taken just a few days before her horrific death. There was a resemblance in her soft features but, after all, she was also ten years older in 1925 since her last Keystone comedy of 1915 and, I wasn’t convinced either way. Yet the attribution of Carruthers in name has recently stuck with present day film historians, researchers and buffs and has since perpetuated, erroneously, in new resources over the last dozen years. 

 

    Baroness zur Muehlen, Helen Carruthers, 1925, left;    Charles Chaplin and Peggy Page, 1914, right

    Chaplin and Beatrice ’Peggy’ Page in Charlie’s last film for Keystone, His Prehistoric Past, 1914

 

Twelve years ago I decided to track down the life of this mystery woman, one of the only unknown Keystone players, and soon found in the then-contemporary movie fan magazines of the day that the little actress in several of those Chaplin films (thanks to an inquiring public) was now and again credited as ‘Peggy Page,’ a new name to me that I’d never heard before after more than fifty years of researching silent comedies, comedians, producers and personel. Over the years I sporadically continued this often confusing, frustrating and dead-end research for the obscure Peggy Page.

    Most recently I just found out that the little actress ‘Miss Page’ who appeared in a bunch of Keystone Comedies of 1914 was born Beatrice Maria Matthews in April 1891 in Bozeman, Montana. She came to Long Beach, California with her parents, Albert Lenard and Jessie (Collins) Matthews in the early 1900s. On January 21, 1907 Jessie filed for divorce against her husband charging him with desertion and failure to provide for her and their three children. They soon divorced, Beatrice and her little sister Helen staying with their mother and, older brother, Collins Cameron Matthews, parting with their father. On July 28, 1909 their mother married a realtor, George Brewster Earley, and the two raised the girls.

    On October 10th, 1911 woman were granted the right to vote in California. Just over a year earlier Beatrice Matthews, once described as petite and demure, drew a lot of attention when she handled the wireless transcription transmissions from the big court story of the day, the McNamara Trials, when two brothers bombed the Los Angeles Times building where twenty-one people perished and many injured. Beatrice had been working as a telegrapher for Western Union at least as early as 1910 when she was 18. The Los Angeles Herald singled her out, “Miss Beatrice Matthews, one of the youngest and prettiest of the employees of the Western Union Telegraph company’s office here (the Hall of Records Building), will handle millions of words of newspaper ‘copy’ telling the story of the progress of the McNamara trial to the outer world.” On November 28, 1911 The Morning Call complimented her, “In the month Miss Matthews has been in charge, she has become most popular with the reporters.” She had plenty of local suitors and was capturing many hearts nationwide.

 

    Peggy in plaid coat with Chaplin in Mabel's Busy Day, 1914

 

    On December 31, 1912 in Los Angeles, Beatrice briefly marries Elmer Fred Page an assertive 22 year old clothing buyer and salesman for the Mullen and Bluett Clothing Company. About the Spring of 1914 she winds up at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios in Edendale and, over the next nine months, appears in approximately twenty comedies with their most famous stars including Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Chester Conklin, Harry McCoy, Charlie Murray, and Charles Chaplin among others. Though she is merely an unbilled stock player whose screen time was increasing with each new release, the then movie-going public does notice her, particularly in the Chaplin films, yet few knew her name. It was soon divulged to inquiring minds (in very small doses) to readers of the early fan magazines of such regular columns as The Answer Man as Miss Peggy Page, although she herself was never advertised nor rarely mentioned elsewhere in studio publicity. One such movie answer man once quipped, “Keystone don’t give cast lists for all of their plays.” Perhaps a load of the local LA boys recognized her from the Hall of Records Building.

    When Chaplin’s Keystone contract expired in December 1914 he leaves for the Essanay company in Chicago, and Peggy secures a contract to support the popular comedians Pokes and Jabbs (Bobby Burns and Walter Stull) to begin in January 1915, and produced by the C-K company of Santa Barbara for distribution by Kriterion. In the film trade mags at the time, Kriterion is the first to list ’Peggy Page’ or ‘Paige’ in their ads and publicity hype as having formerly starred with Charles Chaplin; but the C-K series never happened. Rather Burns and Stull never happened with C-K so, presumingly, neither did Peggy. In the Los Angeles City Directory of 1915, ‘Peggy Page’ is listed as residing at 1042 Sanborn Ave and an ‘actor,’ possibly hoping to resume her growing film career, or perhaps already acting. Sadly very little if anything can be found regarding Peggy Page’s acting career beyond Keystone.

 

    Peggy with Harry McCoy in Mabel's Blunder, 1914
 

    Having soon divorced after her first marriage, in March 26th, 1916 in Santa Ana, she marries another salesman, Samuel Kennedy Strickler. Only three months later Peggy filed a divorce complaint against her husband whom she alleged called her ‘a nut’ and bought her only two pairs of shoes and one pair of gloves in their three months of married life. San Francisco Call, June 10, 1916

    On August 13, 1919 in Santa Ana, Peggy’s sister Helen of Long Beach married Lawrence Harvey Mayer, a ship laborer at the time and, according to Helen, they too separated; only two days later. Six years later in the summer of 1925 she files for divorce charging husband Mayer with desertion and non-support. Just days later in July 1925 he marries a well known West End society girl, Jean Kelly Thorpe.

    Back in the 1920 Los Angeles census, Beatrice Strickler (Peggy Page), age 28, working as secretary in a bank and, although separated, listed as ‘married,’ soon divorce in 1925. In 1927 Beatrice is residing at 291 Lowena Drive, Long Beach and working as a bookkeeper for Lawler and Degnan, attorneys. On June 27, 1927 her step-father George Brewster Earley dies three weeks before his sixty-fifth birthday. Also about this time Beatrice marries Curtis Cameron Porter, a native of Kansas who came to Long Beach with the Navy’s submarine division during WW1 and retained a life-long love of automobiles. In 1930, Curtis is selling auto insurance, Beatrice working as a secretary for the law firm and sister Helen a stenographer for an oil company. In July 1939 Curtis is convicted in Newport Beach on a drunk driving charge and ordered to serve fifty days in the county jail.

    On September 4, 1939 Beatrice and Helen’s mother Jessie (Matthews) Earley dies at 68. Records are unclear whether Jessie remarried after her second husbands passing in those last twelve years of her life. In 1940, Beatrice is still working as a secretary in a law office and husband Curtis now a city assessor, both living together in Long Beach. The Santa Ana Register of July 8, 1940 accounts that early on that same morning Mrs. Beatrice Porter, age 50, of 379 Bay Shore Ave, Long Beach, was arrested in Laguna Beach when she refused to sign her name when being booked at county jail, police alleged.

    In early 1942 Curtis was now working for Western Pipe and Steel Company before being assigned to the Merchant Marine where he served continuously in various war zones and occupied areas until an illness became serious necessitating his admission to the San Francisco Marine Hospital in October of 1947.

    Back on November 10, 1942 at the age of 51, Beatrice Maria Porter aka Peggy Page died at her home after a long illness. She was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Gallery of Beginnings plot #303. Her tombstone simply reads ironically with wrong birthdate:  

                                              MOTHER  Beatrice Matthews 1881-1942

    Curtis C. Porter died March 18, 1948 in the Marine Hospital, San Francisco, where he’d been for over the last five months to combat a serious illness. He was buried in Clay Center, Kansas, with his parents, Dr. M. C. and Mrs. Isadora (Risdon) Porter.

 

This continues to be a work in progress. Copyright 2022 by Steve Rydzewski.

BEN TURPIN FILMOGRAPHY – SENNETT 1917-1927

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONE-TRIANGLE

(two reels each unless noted)

Oriental Love 

(released 5/27/17)  Director: Walter Wright and/or Clarence Badger

Ora Carew, Joseph Belmont, Joseph Callahan, Nick Cogley, Andy Anderson, Blanche Payson, Edgar Kennedy, Sid Smith, (Ben Turpin?)

Cactus Nell 

(6/3/17)  Director: Fred Fishback; Assistant Director: Whitey Sovern; camera: J.R. Lockwood

Polly Moran, Wayland Trask, Wallace Beery, Dora Rodgers, Cliff Bowes, Joey Jacobs, Robert Kortman(?), (Ben Turpin?)

 

Sole Mates  

(6/4/17)  One reel Triangle Comedy;   Director: Herman Raymaker; cam: Roger Dale Armstrong 

Ben Turpin, Florence Clarke, Vivian Edwards, Alfred Gronell 

 

 

• A Clever Dummy  

(6/15/17)  Director: Herman Raymaker; Assistant Dirs: Robert Kerr & Ferris Hartman; cam: Elgin Lessley

Ben Turpin (a janitor), James Donnelly (an inventor), Claire Anderson (his daughter), James Delano (the partner), Juanita Hansen (showgirl), Chester Conklin (stagehand), Wallace Beery (theater owner), Joseph Belmont, Eva Thatcher (in audience), Grover Ligon (in sewer). (wt: The Automaton Figure)

• Lost – A Cook   

(8/12/17)  Director: Fred Fishback (?)

Mack Swain, Ethel Teare, Joey Jacobs, Maude Wayne, Cliff Bowes, Sylvia Ashton, Mal St. Clair, Ben Turpin as a party guest.

 

 

The Pawnbroker's Heart, Turpin, Peggy Pearce, Chester Conklin, Hampton Del Ruth

 

• The Pawnbroker’s Heart 

(8/19/17)  (UCLA)   Director: Eddie Cline (?)  

Chester Conklin, Glen Cavender, Caroline Rankin, Peggy Pearce, Ben Turpin, Alice Maison (wt: A Safe Arrangement)

 

MACK SENNETT-PARAMOUNT

(two reels each unless noted)

 • A Bedroom Blunder 

MS1 (10/7/17) (re-released in 1923 as Room 23)   Dir: Eddie Cline; cam: Phil Whitman   

Charlie Murray, Mary Thurman, Wayland Trask, Pat Forde (aka Frank Terry), Eva Thatcher, Glen Cavender, James Donnelly, Wallace Beery, Tom Kennedy, Gonda Durand, Phyllis Haver, Vera Steadman, Roxanna McGowan,  Marvel Rea, Eddie Cline. Ben Turpin in small role as desk clerk at the Sea Shell Inn, second reel.

 

 

Roping Her Romeo with Slim Summerville, Polly Moran, and Ben

 

 

 

 

• Roping Her Romeo 

MS2  (10/21/17)   Dir: Fred Fishback; asst dir: Whitey Sover; cam: Hans Koenekamp

Polly Moran, Ben Turpin (Honest-Eyed Jack, A Poor Butterfly), Slim Summerville, Ethel Teare, Eva Thatcher, Wayland Trask, James Donnelly, Gonda Durand, Eleanor Field, Phyllis Haver, Pat Kelly, Roxana McGowan, Marvel Rea, Edith Valk, Vera Steadman (wt: A Love-sick Bandit)

Slim Summerville, Turpin, Glen Cavender in Are Waitresses Safe?

 

 

 

 

• Are Waitresses Safe? 

MS4  (11/18/17)   Dir: Victor Heerman; cam: Fred Jackman

Louise Fazenda, Ben Turpin (Who Loved Her So), Slim Summerville, Glen Cavender, Tony O’Sullivan, Cliff Bowes, Wayland Trask,  Jack Cooper, Grover Ligon, Al McKinnon, Wallace Beery, Tom Kennedy, Phyllis Haver, Gonda Durand, Laura LaVarnie, Roxanna McGowan, Gene Rogers, Hal Haig Prieste

That Night  

MS6  (12/16/17)   Dir: Eddie Cline; cam: Fred Jackman

Charles Murray, Mary Thurman, Wayland Trask, Wallace Beery, Vera Steadman, Phyllis Haver, Gene Rogers, Roxanna McGowan, Marvel Rea, Eva Thatcher, Glen Cavender, Tom Kennedy, Pat Kelly, (Ben Turpin?)

Taming Target Center  

MS7 (12/30/17)   Dir: William S. Campbell; cam: Fred Jackman

Polly Moran (the new sheriff), Ben Turpin (the sheriff), Gonda Durand (his leading vampire), Tom Kennedy (cafe proprietor), Larry McGrath (the parson), Gene Rogers, George Binns, Marvel Rea, Grover Ligon, Frank J. Coleman

Watch Your Neighbor 

MS10 (2/10/18)   Dir: Victor Heerman; cam: Fred Jackman

Charles Murray, Mary Thurman, Wayland Trask, Gene Rogers, Edgar Kennedy, Frank J. Coleman, Harry Booker, Cliff Bowes, Billy Armstrong, Albert Gillespie, Marvel Rea, Vera Steadman, Roxanna McGowan, (Ben Turpin?)

 

 

• Sheriff Nell’s Tussle  

MS12 (2/24/1918)  (UCLA)  Dir: William S. Campbell; cam: Fred Jackman & Kenneth MacLean

Polly Moran, Ben Turpin (Still After Her), Billy Armstrong, Gonda Durand, Frank J. Coleman, Al McKinnon, Gene Rogers, Pat Kelly

Main cast and crew of Saucy Madeline. Left to right, seated: Jack Cooper, Frank J. Coleman, Polly Moran, F. Richard Jones, Phyllis Haver,Charles Lynn, Gonda Durand, Turpin. Standing left to right: Sloppy Gray, J.R. Lockwood, (three men unidentified), and Garry O'Dell.

 

Saucy Madeline  

MS15 (4/21/1918)   Dir: F. Richard Jones; camera: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood 

Polly Moran, Ben Turpin (A Rolling Stone Out of Work), Charles Lynn, Jack Cooper, Frank J. Coleman, Harry Gribbon, Wayland Trask, George Jeske, Gonda Durand, Alice Maison, Sloppy Gray

• His Smothered Love  

MS16 (5/5/1918)  (MOMA)   Director: Eddie Cline; cam: Fred Jackman & Phil Whitman

Chester Conklin, Harry Gribbon, Marie Prevost, Jack Cooper, Laura LaVarnie, Alice Maison, Paddy McQuire, Wayland Trask, Marvel Rea, Phyllis Haver, Vera Steadman, Frank J. Coleman, Slim Summerville, Erle Kenton, Gonda Durand, Billy Gilbert. Turpin in small role as Conklin’s messenger boy.

The Battle Royal  

MS17 (5/19/1918)   Director: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Ben Turpin (After a Wife), Charles Lynn, Polly Moran, Wayland Trask, Fanny Kelly, Al McKinnon, George Jeske, Glen Cavender, Abdul Maljan, Teddy, Pat Kelly, Billy Gilbert, Eva Thatcher, Hal Haig Prieste

• Love Loops the Loop  

MS18 (6/2/1918)  (MOMA)   Director: Walter Wright; cam: Fred Jackman & Hans Koenekamp

Charlie Murray, Mary Thurman, Wayland Trask, Harry Booker, Laura LaVarnie, Abdul, Paddy McQuire, Gene Rogers, Al McKinnon, Bert Gillespie, Roxanna McGowan, Phyllis Haver, Vera Steadman. Ben in small role as cafe bandleader

Two Tough Tenderfeet  

MS19 (6/16/1918)   Director: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Ben Turpin (a crooked tenderfoot), Charles Lynn (his pal), Polly Moran (the sheriff of Crooked Bend), Bert Roach (owns the town & wants to own the sheriff), Laura LaVarnie (the sheriff’s mother), Jack Cooper, Wayland Trask, Hank Mann, Paddy McQuire, Roxanna McGowan, Billy Gilbert, Ed  Kennedy

Her Screen Idol  

MS20 (7/1/18)   Director: Eddie Cline; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Jack Cooper, Glen Cavender, Edgar Kennedy, Gene Rogers, Marvel Rea, Laura LaVarnie, Roxanna McGowan, Marie Prevost, Teddy, (Ben Turpin?)

 

 

She Loved Him Plenty  

MS23 (8/11/1918)   Dir: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Ben Turpin (A Fickle Youth), Charles Lynn, Polly Moran, Marie Prevost, Edgar Kennedy, Al McKinnon, Gonda Durand, Harriet Hammond, Phyllis Haver, Pat Kelly, Roxanna McGowan, Eva Thatcher, George Gray

 

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It’s A Cinch  

(c9/10/1918 Liberty Loan Special)   Director? - one reel 

Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin (selling bonds), Charlie Lynn, Phyllis Haver, Tom Kennedy, Pat Kelly, Mal St. Clair, Dave Anderson 

 

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Charles Lynn, Marie Prevost, Tom Kennedy, Turpin, and others in Sleuths!

 

 

 

 

Sleuths!  

MS26 (9/22/18)   Dir: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood 

Ben Turpin (Eagle Eye Jack, Detective), Charles Lynn, Marie Prevost, Tom Kennedy, Chester Conklin, Bert Roach, Al McKinnon, Eva Thatcher, Pat Kelly 

Whose Little Wife Are You?  

MS28 (11/17/1918)   Dir: Eddie Cline; cam: Fred & Floyd Jackman

Charlie Murray, Eva Thatcher, Joseph “Baldy” Belmont, Alice Lake, Wayland Trask, Mary Thurman, Paddy McQuire, Tom Kennedy, Teddy, Pepper, Harriet Hammond, Phyllis Haver, Laura LaVarnie, Marie Prevost, Vera Steadman; Ben & Charles Lynn in a surprise appearance, floating on raft thru Murray’s flooded pharmacy.

Tom Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Charlie and Ben, Hide and Seek, Detectives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hide and Seek, Detectives

MS31 (12/15/1918)   Dir: Eddie Cline;  cam: Fred Jackman and Phil Whitman

Ben Turpin (A Detective), Charles Lynn, Marie Prevost, Gene Rogers, Tom Kennedy, Al McKinnon, Paddy McQuire, Charles Murray

MPW: It is not expected that the ingenuity and fun-making ability of Sennett will always flow in a torrent, though the font has seemed inexhaustible at times, but he manages to introduce some new features in each release, even if compelled to rely on older situations for his rough and tumble style of production. A farcical presentation of Turpin and Lynn as detectives, very swift in action, but lacking in true humorous situations. Exaggeration that it is, there is some humor, and it is to be hoped that the human element, that of characterization, will broaden in future releases. There is not enough of it, and almost too much activity by trick work with the camera for a modern audience. There is, however, plenty of material in the farce for good laughs. 

 

 

 

Cupid's Day Off

MS35 (1/12/19)   Director: Eddie Cline; cam: Fred Jackman & Hans Koenekamp

Ben Turpin & Charles Lynn (A Couple of Shoe Men), Alice Lake, Tom Kennedy, Eva Thatcher, Bothwell Browne, Bert Roach, Hughie Mack, Abdul Maljan, Harriet Hammond

• East Lynne with Variations  

MS37 (2/23/19)  (EYE)   Director: Eddie Cline  

Ben Turpin (A Matinee Idol), Charles Lynn (the villian), Marie Prevost (the girl), Tom Kennedy, Bobby Dunn, Alice Lake, Bert Roach, Ford Sterling, Marvel Rea, Billy Armstrong, James Finlayson

• The Village Smithy  

MS38 (3/9/19)  (Filmoteca Espanola)   Director: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, James Finlayson, Kalla Pasha, Paddy McQuire, Billy Armstrong, Al McKinnon, Fanny Kelly, Ben Turpin (cameo)  

 

 

The Foolish Age with Phyllis Haver, Jim Finlayson, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, Turpin, Charlie Lynn, Paddy McQuire, Garry O'Dell

 

The Foolish Age  

MS42 (4/13/19)   Director: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, James Finlayson, Phyllis Haver, Kalla Pasha, Paddy McQuire, Garry Odell. Ben Turpin & Charles Lynn in a small role as a couple sour musicians.

Ben, Marie Prevost, and Charlie Lynn in When Love is Blind

 

When Love Is Blind  

MS40 (5/11/19)   Director: Eddie Cline; cam: Fred Jackman & Phil Whitman

Ben Turpin & Charles Lynn (Men About Town), Alfred McKinnon (a detective), Marvel Rea (his wife), Phyllis Haver (a blonde), Marie Prevost (a brunette), Erle C. Kenton, Gene Rogers, Kalla Pasha, John Rand, Charlie Murray, Pepper

Love’s False Faces  

MS41 (5/25/19)   Director: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Chester Conklin, Marie Prevost, James Finlayson, Kalla Pasha, Billy Armstrong, Charlotte Mineau, Edgar Kennedy, Eddie Gribbon. Ben & Charles Lynn in a small role as a couple of free-loading drinkers.

No Mother to Guide Him

MS45 (6/8/19 or 6/22/19)   Dir: Erle Kenton & Mal St. Clair; cam: Fred Jackman & Hans Koenekamp

Ben Turpin (A Happy Married Man), Myrtle Lind (his wife), Charles Lynn (the other man), Baldy Belmont (a true friend), Isabelle Keep, Billy Armstrong, Fanny Kelly, Edgar Kennedy

Trying to Get Along  

MS46 (7/6/19)   Dir: F. Richard Jones; cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Charlie Murray, Charlotte Mineau, Kalla Pasha, James Finlayson, Fanny Kelly, Ford Sterling, Eva Thatcher, Eddie Gribbon, Baldy Belmont, Harriet Hammond, Teddy, Harry Gribbon, Isabelle Keep, Kathryn McGuire, Gladys Whitfield. Turpin & Charlie Lynn in a small role as a couple of diners

MACK SENNETT for SOL LESSER

Yankee Doodle in Berlin with (L to R): Garry O'Dell, John Rand, Mal St. Clair, Turpin, Ford Sterling, Charlie Lynn, Bert Roach, Harriet Hammond, Baldy Belmont, and all eyes on Bothwell Browne in drag

 

 

• Yankee Doodle in Berlin

#31 (7/28/19)  Five reels   Director: F. Richard Jones 

Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Marie Prevost, Mal St. Clair, Bert Roach, Ben Turpin (German Soldier), Charlie Murray, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, Kalla Pasha, Frank Hayes, Joseph Belmont, Fanny Kelly, Eva Thatcher, Wayland Trask, Al McKinnon, Jim Finlayson, Charles Lynn (wt: The Kaiser’s Last Squeal)

MACK SENNETT-PARAMOUNT

 (continued, two reels each unless noted):

Treating ‘em Rough  

MS49? (8/3/19)   Dir: Fred Jackman; cam: Fred & George Jackman

Louise Fazenda, Baldy Belmont, Pat Kelly, Edgar Kennedy, Billy Bevan, Ford Sterling, Jack Ackroyd, Jimmy Finlayson. Ben Turpin cameo as a drunk

 

 

Charlie Murray as The Dentist, with Marie Prevost, Ben, (unidentified), and Garry Odell

 

• The Dentist  

MS50? (8/17/19)  (Filmarchiv Austria)   Dir: F. Richard Jones;  cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Charlie Murray (the dentist), Charlotte Mineau (his wife), Eddie Gribbon, Kalla Pasha (her disreputable brothers), James Finlayson (a real estate agent), Marie Prevost (his stenographer), Fanny Kelly (his wife), Hughie Mack, Baldy Belmont, Phyllis Haver, Pat Kelly, Garry Odell, Pepper the cat. Turpin cameo as an eccentric dental patient

Uncle Tom Without a Cabin  

MS48 (8/31/19)   Dir: Ray Hunt;  cam: Fred Jackman & Perry Evans

Ben Turpin (A man of many parts), Charles Conklin (the villian), Marie Prevost (the leading lady), Ford Sterling (a compli-mentary audience), Eva Thatcher (a critic), James Finlayson (a stage-door Johnnie), Teddy (a bloodhound), Billy Bevan, Eddie Gribbon, Kalla Pasha, John Rand, Isabelle Keep, Kathryn McGuire, Dave Anderson, Gladys Whitfield

• Up in Alf’s Place  

MS53 (10/12/19)  (UCLA)   Dir: F. Richard Jones;  cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Charlie Murray, Harriet Hammond, Charlotte Mineau, Kalla Pasha, Jim Finlayson, Fanny Kelly, Billy Armstrong, Gordon Lewis, Marvin Lobach, John Rand, Grover Ligon, Edgar Kennedy, Dave Anderson, Mildred June, Thelma Hill, Kathryn McGuire

Salome Vs Shenandoah with Heine Conklin, Ben, Pat Kelly, Phyllis Haver

 

• Salome vs. Shenandoah  

MS54 (10/26/19) (Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid);  Directors: Erle Kenton & Ray Grey

Ben Turpin (John the Baptist and A Confederate Spy), Charlie Lynn, Phyllis Haver, Charlie Murray, Marie Prevost, Eddie Gribbon, Ford Sterling, Eva Thatcher, Harry Gribbon, Billy Bevan, Al Cooke, Elva Diltz, Fanny Kelly, Alice Maison, Kathryn McGuire, Bert Roach, Charles Murray, Annette DeGandis, Sibye Trevilla, Gladys Whitfield

A Lady’s Tailor   

MS51 (12/7/19)   Directors: Erle Kenton & Ray Grey;  cam: Fred Jackman & Vic Scheurich

Ford Sterling, Bert Roach, Harriet Hammond, Eva Thatcher, Billy Bevan, Kathryn McGuire, Phyllis Haver, John Rand, Myrtle Lind, Ben Turpin cameo

The Speak-Easy  

MS58 (12/21/19)  Dir: F. Richard Jones;  cam: Fred Jackman & J.R. Lockwood

Charlie Murray, Fanny Kelly, Marie Prevost, Eddie Gribbon, Garry O'Dell, Pat Kelly, Baldy Belmont, Al Cooke, James Finlayson, Bert Roach, George O’Hara, Ben Turpin cameo as a drunk in speak-easy

The Star Boarder with Bert Roach, Turpin, and Harriet Hammond

The Star Boarder   

MS59 (1/4/20)   Director: James Davis;  cam: Fred Jackman & Perry Evans

Louise Fazenda (a kitchen slavey), Billy Armstrong (a gentleman crook), Bert Roach (a boarding housekeeper/barber), Harriet Hammond (a manicurist/Bert’s wife), John Henry, Jr. (their baby), Billy Bevan (Armstrong’s accomplice), Baldy Belmont (Louise’s sweetheart), Teddy, Marvin Loback, Kalla Pasha. Ben cameo as cigar salesman/customer in barbershop

MACK SENNETT for UNITED ARTISTS

 

Down on the Farm behind the scenes with Turpin, Eddie Gribbon, Kalla Pasha, and the Sennett girls

 

• Down on the Farm 

#56 (4/25/20) 5 reels;   Directors: Erle Kenton & Ray Grey;  cam: Fred Jackman, Perry Evans & Victor Scheurich

Louise Fazenda, Harry Gribbon, James Finlayson, Bert Roach, Marie Prevost, Billy Armstrong, John Henry, Jr., Ben Turpin (as Marie’s husband), Eva Thatcher, Phyllis Haver, Mildred June, Harriet Hammond, Teddy, Pepper, Baldy Belmont, Elva Diltz, Fanny Kelly, Pat Kelly, Charles Murray, Kalla Pasha, Virginia Fox, Kathryn McGuire, Jane Allen, Thelma Bates

 

MACK SENNETT for FIRST NATIONAL

 

Married Life with Turpin, Phyllis Haver, Jim Finlayson, and Heine Conklin

 

 

 

 

 

• Married Life 

#57 (6/15/20) Five reels   Directors: Erle Kenton, Reggie Morris & Ray Griffith;  camera: Fred Jackman

Ben Turpin (Rodney St. Clair, A Man’s Man), Phyllis Haver, James Finlayson, Heinie Conklin, Ford Sterling, Charlotte Mineau, Kalla Pasha, Charlie Murray, Louise Fazenda, Baldy Belmont, Billy Bevan, Al Cooke, Eddie Gribbon, John Henry, Jr, Harriet Hammond, Pat Kelly, Bert Roach, Eva Thatcher. Some footage extant.

MACK SENNETT-PARAMOUNT (continued)

You Wouldn’t Believe It!    

MS64? (6/27/20)   Dir: Erle Kenton;  cam: Fred Jackman & Victor Scheurich

Heinie Conklin, Marie Prevost, Bert Roach, James Finlayson, Charlotte Mineau, Eddie Gribbon, (Ben Turpin?)

• The Quack Doctor   

MS67 (7/4/20)   Dirs: George Gray & Billy Bevan;  cam: Fred Jackman & Perry Evans

Louise Fazenda, Billy Bevan, Gordon Lewis, Gladys Ballard, Dave Anderson, Kalla Pasha, Billy Armstrong, John Henry Jr., Fanny Kelly. Ben Turpin cameo as Justice of the Peace

MACK SENNETT for FIRST NATIONAL

 

 

• A Small Town Idol

#75 (2/20/21)  Six reels (originally scheduled for release 1/16/21)

Director: Erle C. Kenton;  story: Ray Griffith & John Grey;  continuity: Tom Regan

camera: Fred Jackman, Perry Evans, & Ernie Crockett;  editor: Allen McNeil;  costumes: Violet Schofield

Ben Turpin, Phyllis Haver, Marie Prevost, Charlie Murray, James Finlayson, Dot Farley, Bert Roach, Billy Bevan, George O’Hara, Lige Conley, Kalla Pasha, Eddie Gribbon, Charles “Heine” Conklin, Al Cooke, Fanny Kelly, Pat Kelly, Bud Ross, Andy Clyde, Gordon Lewis, John Rand, Gary Odell, Harriet Hammond, Mildred June, Marvin Lobach, Kewpie Morgan, Ramon Novarro, Derelys Perdue, Gladys Whitfield. Re-released in 1930 and again by Vitaphone in 1939 in two reels

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(Two reels each unless noted)

• She Sighed by the Seaside  

MS69 (5/22/21)  (Lobster Films, France)   Director: Erle C. Kenton;  cam: Fred Jackman, C.G. Crane & Victor Scheurich

Ben Turpin (A Saver of Lifes), Marie Prevost, James Finlayson, Heinie Conklin, Bert Roach, Charlotte Mineau, Tiny Ward, Lige Conley, Jack Ackroyd, Al Cooke, Jane Allen, Thelma Bates, Elva Diltz, Virginia Fox, Isabelle Keep, Kathryn McGuire, Gladys Whitfield, Irene Tiver

 

 

Home Talent  with James Finlayson, Eddie Gribbon, Ben, and Kalla Pasha

 

• Home Talent  

#91 (6/19/21)  Five reels   Director: Mack Sennett;  cam: Fred Jackman and Perry Evans 

Roman Sequences cam: James Abbe

Ben Turpin (A Stranded Actor), Phyllis Haver, Charles Murray, James Finlayson, Dot Farley, Eddie Gribbon, Kalla Pasha, Kathryn McGuire, Harriet Hammond, Billy Bevan, Joseph Belmont, Jane Allen, Virginia Fox, Mildred June, Pat Kelly, Irene Tiver. Some footage extant. (wt: Furnished Rooms)

• Love’s Outcast    

#88  (7/3/21)   Director: Raymond Griffith;  cam: Fred Jackman and Perry Evans

Ben Turpin, Dot Farley, Kathryn McGuire, James Finlayson, Billy Bevan, Mildred June, Kalla Pasha, Al Cooke, Bud Ross, Jack Richardson. Some footage extant.

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Behind the Scenes at the Mack Sennett Studios   (re cSept 1921)

“Interesting and informal glimpses of the Sennett Company, Bathing Girls, Teddy, Pepper, and Ben Turpin,” Marie Prevost, Phyllis Haver, Mildred June. A special publicity film shown during Ben Turpin's personal appearance tour at this time.

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Ben and Phyllis Haver,  Love and Doughnuts

 

 

• Love and Doughnuts    

#95 (9/15/21)   Director: Roy Del Ruth

Ben Turpin, Phyllis Haver, Billy Bevan, Mildred June, Kewpie Morgan, Franklyn Bond, Al Cooke, Billy Armstrong. Some footage extant.

 

• Molly O’  

(12/1/21)   #81   Six reels   Dir: F. Richard Jones  

Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Anna Hernandez, Albert Hackett, Jack Mulhall, Jacqueline Logan, Ben Deeley, (Turpin not in extant footage, small supposed appearance unverified)

 

 

 

• Bright Eyes  

#92 (12/24/21)   Dirs: Mal St. Clair & Roy Del Ruth;  cam: Fred Jackman & George Jackman

Ben Turpin (A Rural Romeo), Phyllis Haver, Billy Bevan, Harriet Hammond, Dot Farley, Bud Ross, George O’Hara, Gordon Lewis, Kalla Pasha, Jack Richardson, Louise Fazenda (wt: Tripped at the Altar)

 

The Border Line  

#97 (1922 never produced)

Ben Turpin, Phyllis Haver, Billy Bevan,Kewpie Morgan, Al Cooke, Franklyn Bond

Jack Richardson shouldn’t flirt with Ben’s girl, Phyllis Haver, in Step Forward

• Step Forward  

#100 (4/13/22)   Director: Gus Meins;  cam: Perry Evans & Ernie Crockett

Ben Turpin (A Motorman), Phyllis Haver, Heinie Conklin, Kewpie Morgan, George Nichols, Jack Richardson, Dorothy Vernon, Andy Clyde, Kalla Pasha, Fanny Kelly, Andy Clyde, Pat Kelly, Gordon Lewis, Joe Bordeaux (wt:The Robin’s Nest).

Home Made Movies  

#102 (7/15/22)   Directors: Ray Grey & Gus Meins;  cam: Homer Scott & Bob Walters;  editor: Allen McNeil

Ben Turpin, Phyllis Haver, Dot Farley, James Finlayson, George Cooper, Al Cooke, Andy Clyde, Cecile Evans, Joe Bordeaux. Some footage extant. (wt: The Frozen Trail)

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Kathryn McGuire with The Shriek of Araby

 

• The Shriek of Araby   

#108 (4/24/23)  Five reels   Director: F. Richard Jones;  camera: Homer Scott & Bob Walters

editor: Allen McNeil;  story: John Grey

Ben Turpin (The Shriek), Kathryn McGuire, Ray Grey, George Cooper, Louis Fronde, Charles Stevenson, Dick Sutherland, Walter Perry, Kewpie Morgan, Marion Nixon  (wt: The Shriek)

MACK SENNETT for PATHE  (Two Reels each)

Where’s My Wandering Boy This Evening? with Madeline Hurlock, Ben, Jimmy Finlayson, and Billy Armstrong

 

Where’s My Wandering Boy This Evening? 

#113 (7/8/23)  Director: J.A. Waldron; cam: Blake Wagner & Ernie Crockett; ed: Ray Enright

Ben Turpin, Pricilla Bonner, Dot Farley, James Finlayson, Madeline Hurlock, Billy Armstrong, Wheeler Dryden, Fanny Kelly, Pat Kelly, Teddy, Billy Gilbert, Jack Duffy, Gordon Lewis (wt: Deserted at the Church)

Ben, Mack Swain, Madeline Hurlock in Pitfalls of a Big City

 

• Pitfalls of a Big City  

#114 (9/2/23)   Director: John A. Waldron;  cam: Blake Wagner & Ernie Crockett;  Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin, Pricilla Bonner, Dot Farley, Madeline Hurlock, Jimmy Finlayson, Mack Swain, Bud Ross, Billy Bevan, Billy Armstrong, Andy Clyde, Kewpie Morgan. Short clip extant. Herman Raymaker was supposed to direct

Asleep at the Switch with (seated) Bud Ross, Madeline Hurlock,
Ben and, in back, Billy Armstrong with Horace 'Kewpie' Morgan

 

• Asleep at the Switch  

#116 (10/14/23)   Director: Roy Del Ruth;  cam: Ernie Crockett & Bob Walters;  ed: Ray Enright;  Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin, Kewpie Morgan, Madeline Hurlock, Bud Ross, Billy Armstrong, Fanny Kelly, Cameo (the dog), Cecile Evans, Margaret Cloud, Andy Clyde, Gordon Lewis. Clip used in Robert Youngson’s Days of Thrills and Laughter.

• The Dare-Devil  

#118 (11/25/23) Director: Del Lord; cam: Blake Wagner; story: Al Martin; Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin (Joe Magee), Irene Lentz, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan, Jack Richardson, Madeline Hurlock, Arthur Rowlands, Gordon Lewis, Bob Wagner. (wt: The Stunt Man)

Menaced by Fred Spencer in Ten Dollars or Ten Days

 

• Ten Dollars or Ten Days  

#120 (1/6/24)   Director: Del Lord;  cam: Blake Wagner;  spec cam: Ernie Crockett;

titles: J.A. Waldron; Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin (A Soda Jerk), Irene Lentz, Harry Gribbon, Bud Ross, Louise Carver, Silas Wilcox, Ernie Adams, Billy Gilbert, Fred Spencer. Filmed in August 1923. Clip used in Robert Youngson’s The Golden Age of Comedy. (wt: Sidetracked)

 

• The Hollywood Kid  

#117 and/or #133 (3/30/24)   Director: Roy Del Ruth;  cam: Bob Ladd & E.B. DuPar;  spec cam: Ernie Crockett

ed: Wm. Hornbeck;  titles: J.A. Waldron;  Supv: F. Richard Jones 

Jackie Lucas, Charlie Murray, Louise Carver, Vernon Dent, Andy Clyde, Jack Cooper, Madeline Hurlock, Bud Ross, Ray Grey, Alice Belcher, Cameo (the dog), Billy Bevan, Elsie Tarron, Sunshine Hart, Cecile Evans, Thelma Hill, Marvin Lobach, Margaret Cloud, Evelyn Francisco, Gladys Tennyson, Dorothy Dore, Billy (the chimp), Ben Turpin cameo 

• Yukon Jake  

#128 (6/6/24)   Director: Del Lord;  cam: Ernie Crockett & George Spear;  ed: Wm Hornbeck
titles: J.A. Waldron;  Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin (Sheriff Cyclone Bill), Natalie Kingston, Kalla Pasha, Jack Richardson, Leo Sulky, Bud Ross, Eli Stanton, Thelma Hill, Lois Boyd, Tiny Ward, Gladys Tennyson, Fanny Kelly, Elsie Tarron, Joe Young, Hazel Williams. Clip used in Robert Youngson’s When Comedy Was King. (wt: North of ‘57)

 

• Romeo and Juliet 

#140 (8/3/24) (EYE) Directors: Harry Sweet & Reggie Morris; cam: George Crocker & George Unholz

spec cam: Ernie Crockett;  ed: Wm Hornbeck;  titles: J.A. Waldron;  Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin, Alice Day, Natalie Kingston, Vernon Dent, Jack Curtis, Billy Bevan, Fanny Kelly, Sunshine Hart, Andy Clyde, Dot Farley, Leo Sulky, Louise Carver, Marvin Lobach

 

 

• Three Foolish Weeks  

#144 (9/14/24)   Directors: Reggie Morris & Ed Kennedy;  cam: Billy Williams & Leland Davis

spec cam: Ernie Crockett;  ed: Wm Hornbeck;  Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin, Madeline Hurlock, Christian J. Frank, Judy King, William Lowery, Billy Bevan, Tiny Ward, Jack Duffy, Fanny Kelly, Eli Stanton. (wt: Three and a Half Weeks)

• The Reel Virginian 

#148 (10/26/24)   Directors: Reggie Morris & Ed Kennedy;  cam: George Crocker & Bob Ladd

spec cam: Ernie Crockett;  ed: Wm Hornbeck;  titles: J.A. Waldron;  Supv: F. Richard Jones

Ben Turpin (Sheriff Rodney St. Clair), Alice Day, Christian J. Frank, Sam Allen, Fred KoVert, Alice Belcher, Coy Watson
(wt: A West Virginian)

• The Wild Goose Chaser  

#166 (1/18/25)   Director: Lloyd Bacon;   cam: George Crocker & Sam Moran  story: Frank Capra;

titles: Felix Adler & A.H. Giebler;  spec cam: Ernie Crockett;  ed: Wm Hornbeck;  Supervised by: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin (Rodney St. Clair), Trilby Clark, Jack Cooper, Eugenia Gilbert, Leo Sulky, Blanche Payson, Evelyn Francisco, Barney Hellum, Louise Carver, Thelma Hill (wt: Hello Baby)

• A Raspberry Romance 

#161 (3/1/25)  (EYE)  Director: Lloyd Bacon; cam: George Crocker & Sam Moran; story: Jefferson Moffitt & Hal Yates  

titles: Felix Adler & A.H. Giebler; spec cam: Ernie Crockett; ed: Wm Hornbeck; Supv: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin (Rodney St. Clair), Blanche Payson, Jack Cooper, Madeline Hurlock, Thelma Parr, Leo Sulky, Barney Hellum, William McCall, Silas Wilcox, Alice Belcher, Irving Bacon, Evelyn Francisco, Thelma Hill, Eli Stanton, Evelyn Sherman

• The Marriage Circus  

#155 (4/12/25)  (MOMA)   Directors: Reggie Morris & Ed Kennedy;  cam: George Spear & Leland Davis

story: Vernon Smith & Frank Capra;  titles: Felix Adler & A.H. Giebler

spec cam: Ernie Crockett;  ed: Wm Hornbeck;  Supv: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin, Madeline Hurlock, Louise Carver, Christian J. Frank, Sunshine Hart, Ford West, Bud Ross, Pat Kelly, Andre Bailey, Claire Cushman, Thelma Hill, Evelyn Sherman, Heinie Conklin (wt: Monsieur Don’t Care)

The Squawk Man    

#173? (1925 never produced)  story: Al Martin.  A parody of The Covered Wagon intended for production after completion of The Wild Goose Chaser but never realized due to Turpin’s sudden retirement

 

Blanche Payson and some lovely ladies in When A Man’s A Prince

 

• When a Man’s a Prince  

#220 (8/15/26)   Director: Eddie Cline;  camera: Vernon Walker

story: Vernon Smith, Clarence Hennecke, Harry McCoy, Jefferson Moffit, George Green

special camera: Ernie Crockett;  editor: Wm Hornbeck;  titles: A.H. Giebler & Reed Heustis;  Supv: J.A. Waldron

Turpin’s return to Sennett starring Madeline Hurlock, Blanche Payson, Danny O’Shea, Dave Morris, George Gray, Bud Ross, Sunshine Hart, Leo Sulky, James Donnelly, Arthur Rowlands

• A Prodigal Bridegroom  

#236 (9/26/26)   Director: Lloyd Bacon;  cam: Earl Stafford;  spec cam: K.G. MacLean

story: Jefferson Moffitt, Clarence Hennecke, Harry McCoy;  ed: Wm Hornbeck;  Supv: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin (Rodney St. Clair), Thelma Hill, Madeline Hurlock, Andy Clyde, William McCall, Irving Bacon, Louise Carver, Marvin Lobach, Dave Morris, Vernon Dent, Patsy O’Byrne, Barney Hellum, Joe Young. Clip used in Robert Youngson’s The Golden Age of Comedy.

• A Harem Knight   

#243 (11/7/26)   Dir: Gil Pratt; camera: Harry Fowler & Wallace Fish; spec cam: K.G. MacLean;

ed: Wm Hornbeck; Supv: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin (Rodney St. Clair), Madeline Hurlock, Danny O’Shea, Andy Clyde, Marvin Loback, Dave Morris, Arthur Rowlands, Louise Carver, Joe Young, George Gray, Billy Gilbert, Irving Bacon, Barney Hellum. Clip used in Youngson’s The Golden Age of Comedy.

 

A Blonde’s Revenge with Billy Gilbert, Vernon Dent, and Barbara Tennant

 

• A Blonde’s Revenge  

#256 (12/19/26)   Dir: Del Lord(?);  story: P. Whitman, H. McCoy, J. Moffitt;  Supv: J.A. Waldron 

Ben Turpin (Gerald Montague, a Live Politician), Ruth Taylor, Vernon Dent, Johnny Burke, Alice Belcher, Barbara Tennant, Barney Hellum, Irving Bacon, Mary Ann Jackson, Thelma Parr, Dave Morris, William McCall, Alma Bennett, Mary Mabery, Johnny Burke, Arthur Rowlands

 

• A Hollywood Hero  

#264 (12/30/26)  (Eastman House)  Director: Harry Edwards;  cam: Billy Williams; ed: Wm Hornbeck; Supv: J.A. Waldron;

story: Carl Harbaugh, Phil Whitman, Harry Edwards & George Jeske;  titles: A.H. Giebler & Jimmy Starr;  

Ben Turpin, Alma Bennett, Bud Jamison, Irving Bacon, Marvin Lobach, William McCall, Bobby Dunn, Eleanor Hibbard (wt: Montague the Magnetic)

 

• Broke in China   

#241 (4/24/27)   Dir: Eddie Cline; asst dir: Glen DeVol;  cam: Harry Fowler; spec cam: Earl Stafford; ed: Wm Hornbeck    

story: Vernon Smith, Harry McCoy, Jefferson Moffitt, and George Jeske

titles: A.H. Giebler & David Weissman;  Supervisor: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin (An American Sailor), Louise Carver, Alice Belcher, Donald Maines, Ruth Taylor, William McCall, Dave Morris, Andy Clyde, Joe Young, Tiny Ward, Bud Ross, Marvin Lobach

 

 

• The Pride of Pikeville   

#251 (6/5/27)   Director: Alf Goulding; assistant directors: Glen DeVol & Ray McCarey

camera: St. Elmo Boyce;  special camera: K.G. MacLean;  editor: Wm Hornbeck;  Supervisor: J.A. Waldron

story: Earle Rodney, Jefferson Moffitt, Clarence Hennecke, Phil Whitman, Harry McCoy, Grover Jones, Randall Faye and Lex Neal;  titles: A.H. Giebler

Ben Turpin (Baron Bonamo), Thelma Hill, Andy Clyde, William McCall, Stanley Blystone, Barney Hellum, Vernon Dent

• The Jolly Jilter    

#261 (3/13/27)   Director: Eddie Cline(?);  editor: Wm Hornbeck;  Supervisor: J.A. Waldron

story: Arthur Ripley, Clarence Hennecke, Grover Jones, Harry McCoy & Phil Whitman

Ben Turpin (Virgil Vancourt), Madeline Hurlock, Sunshine Hart, Alma Bennett, Billy Gilbert. Clip used in Youngson’s The Golden Age of Comedy.

Love’s Languid Lure  

#268 (8/28/27);  Director: Lige Conley;  camera: Vernon Walker;  editor: Wm Hornbeck

story: Phil Whitman, Harry McCoy, Harry Edwards, Vernon Smith and Ralph Cedar

titles: A.H. Giebler & Jimmy Starr;  Supervisor: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin, Peggy Montgomery, Jack Cooper, Irving Bacon, Sunshine Hart

 

 

• Daddyboy  

#276 (10/23/27);  Director: Harry Edwards;  camera: Lee Davis & Lewis Jennings

story: Phil Whitman & Jefferson Moffitt;  titles: A.H.Giebler & Jimmy Starr
editor: Wm Hornbeck;  Supervisor: J.A. Waldron

Ben Turpin, Alma Bennett, Johnny Burke, Bill Searby, Alice Ward, Monty O'Grady, Arthur Rowlands, Andy Clyde, (William McCall?). Ben’s last starring Sennett two-reeler.

 

 After ten years with Mack Sennett, Ben Turpin embarks on a career of freelancing.