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Date Posted:Sun, December 04 2022, 4:24:21 In reply to:
Steve Rydzewski
's message, "Re: WILL ROGERS "Going To Congress"" on Fri, November 18 2022, 19:00:51
>Wow. That's interesting, Jesse! I didn't even notice
>the filming dates. So this two reel short was filmed
>in only eleven days? That's incredibly rapid! Where
>did the filming dates come from? I'm 99% sure that's
>McQuire, and possibly the film was made earlier and
>the eleven days in January were for re-takes. If we
>can get at least one good frame grab of this guy I'd
>love to throw it out to the silent comedy scholars
>(Steve Massa, Brent Walker, etc, etc) who know the
>face of McQuire to get additional opinions. Maybe I
>will. Thank you. -- SteveR
Hey Steve!
I concur with your ID of Paddy McGuire. What intrigues me is that I read somewhere that Paddy died of paresis of the brain from syphilis. This would make difficult any task by the afflicted.
There was a mention in one of the trades that McGuire worked for Karno making me think maybe Stan got him the job and received much work from Chaplin. Well that draft card threw me for a loop. I am now inclined to think the card is accurate because putting false information on a draft card was a serious felony. Perhaps McGuire was indeed a British subject and deciding that putting false info on an American draft card was less a risk and exposing himself as a British draft dodger from 1914.
The paperboy is the same kid who plays the office boy in SMITHY.
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