Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie, has been for a long time a fairly good comedian. He impersonated an elderly lady in Charlie's Aunt and made a great success. Therefore he impersonated a woman in his next picture; in this, his third, he still impersonates a woman. He is kicked in the stomach and falls furiously down stairs. He remains a fairly good comedian...
...reliability of his material. He did not seem to strive as usual for novelty. It would be madness to say that The Freshman is not funny. Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures...
Bunker. Bean. Harry Leon Wilson's extraordinary story of a timid young man who imagined he was an Egyptian potentate and made good on the confidence he gained from ruling in his dream, has been pretty badly mangled on the screen. Matt Moore, able comedian, is miscast, being for one thing several years too old. The twists of character and the strange development of fantasy are lost. The film descends to the vague and chaotic level of slapstick comedy...
Griffith, greatest of directors, has temporarily abandoned the production of vast pageants for the more commercial program picture. This one is adapted from a musical comedy (Poppy) which gave him no master narrative. But he did have the master stage comedian W. C. Fields, and between them they have worked out just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. It is a circus story of the little heroine brought up by the three-card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt...
...Trouble with Wives. Ford Sterling, if memory serves, was once a comedian in custard. He has graduated to the more aristocratic atmosphere of light comedy and thrives on the change. His part is that of the well-meaning friend who gets dragged into one of those mother-in-law-and-suspicious-wife disturbances. There is also Florence Vidor and Tom Moore. All very amusing...