#sid smith

[cosmonautroger]

Sid Smith, In The Court Of King Crimson

[gatutor]

Sonja Henie "Hello London" 1958, de Sid Smith.

[ulrichgebert]

Wo wir gerade so schön im Unfug-Modus waren, eröffneten wir gleich noch das Weihnachtsfilmprogramm mit Jule Stynes und Bob Merrils revisionistischer, weihnachtlicher Neuausdeutung der Rotkäppchen-Geschichte. Bietet immerhin gleich wieder eine der bedeutendsten Sally-Bowles-Darstellerinnen meines Lebens (vergl. hier und hier).

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

Sid Smith (with Marvel Rea) in Nonsense (1920, Jack White)

Pencil-mustachioed Smith worked for Keystone briefly in 1917, but returned more prominently when teamed with Billy Bevan in Del Lord-directed comedies in 1924 like Lizzies of the Field.

A Fairbault, Minnesota native, Smith started in motion pictures in 1911 with Pathé Western under the direction of James Youngdeer, appearing in films such as Her Son, The Bullet's Mark and The Blind Gypsy. He joined Selig around 1913, appearing in Castles in the Air, the three-reeler Garrison's Finish, Her Victory Internal and Tale of a Coat. Smith played Mickey in "The Red Head" series and appeared in their "Chronicles of Bloom Center" series in 1915.

He married Ruth Beckman on Mar 17, 1915, and they divorced in Apr 1921.

Smith's first starring series came with Alkire Photoplays, and in 1920 he made 26 Holly Comedies for Bulls Eye, featuring Paul Parrott and under the direction of Robert Kerr. Smith supported Monty Banks in his Warner comedies, and in 1921-22 he appeared opposite a succession of other comedians in the successful "Hallroom Boys" series for CBC/Federated. Smith made some shorts for Grand Asher in 1923 and starred in Jack White's Cameo Comedies in 1923-24, before his work at Sennett. Smith had appeared as "Ramon Alfaro" in the feature The Ne'er Do Well(Selig) in 1916, and repeated his role in the 1923 Famous Players-Lasky version. He also appeared in Kismet(Waldorf 1920), and starred in many shorts for Al Christie during the 1920s, for Paramount and Pizor in 1927 and for Goodart in 1928. In 1928, Smith was featured in two World War 1 spoof features for Anchor, Dugan of the Dugouts and Top Sergeant Mulligan.

Smith's death in at 36, was attributed to his having imbibed bad liquor at a Malibu beach party. He left his father J.L. Smith of Fairbault, Minnesota, and brother J.C. Smith of Des Moines, Iowa, and is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, p.543

The director Jack White(center)'s childhood days in Fatty Joins the Force (1913)

A neighborhood kid from Edendale, White appeared in a couple of 1913-14 Keystones (such as the boy who gives Fatty Arbuckle a pie in the face in Fatty Joins the Force). White also briefly worked the Sennett switchboard, but was fired for putting a call through to Ford Sterling that lured the star comedian to another lot. White wound up producing comedies for Educational in the 1920s that competed with Sennett's.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, p.597

[frankmayo]

Thelma Percy (real bride), Jimmie Adams (suitor 1), Sid Smith (suitor 2), Frank Hayes (a maid who wants to marry suitor 1) in High and Dry (1920, Jack White)

The director Jack White(center)'s childhood days in Fatty Joins the Force (1913)

A neighborhood kid from Edendale, White appeared in a couple of 1913-14 Keystones (such as the boy who gives Fatty Arbuckle a pie in the face in Fatty Joins the Force). White also briefly worked the Sennett switchboard, but was fired for putting a call through to Ford Sterling that lured the star comedian to another lot. White wound up producing comedies for Educational in the 1920s that competed with Sennett's.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, p.597

[mostly-history]

Trade cards from the Coupon Cigarettes Baseball Issue (1910):

Rube Marquard (New York)

Scoops Carey (Memphis)

Sid Smith (Atlanta)

Ted Breitenstein (New Orleans)

Topsy Hartsel (Philadelphia)

Ty Cobb (Detroit)

“Wild” Bill Donovan (Detroit)

Woodie Thornton (Mobile)

[frankmayo]

Hurlock's bee-stung lips, curly brunette hair and icy looks were seen in over 50 Sennett-Pathé shorts during 1923-28. Though best known for her comic vamp characters, she could also played a queen or a blue-collar girl with equal ease - getting a chance to play comedy leads in some of her later films, in which she was teamed with Eddie Quillan.

Away from Sennett, she appeared in the feature Don Juan's Three Nights(1926), and in the first film which she was teamed with Laurel and Hardy were teamed, Duck and Soup(1927).

Sennett called the girl from Federalsburg, Maryland, "the wittiest of bathing beauties." After attending Neff College in Philadelphia, she entered the stock company at the Little Theater in that city. Moving to New York, she spent a season on the "Century Roof" and for a time held a job as "Miss Java."

Her first film work came as an extra at Universal in the summer of 1917, after which she married a sergeant of the U.S. cavalry, John Sterling McGovern. She reentered films with a contract at Famous Players, where she reportedly appeared in The Cheat with Pola Negri in 1923, but by the spring of that year she signed at contract with Sennett paying her 150$ per week.

Hurlock was a 1925 Wampas Baby Star. Among those also appreciating her wit were respected American writers Marc Connelly and Robert E. Sherwood, who both married the woman who once cited George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Joseph Conrad and Honore de Balzac as her favorite authors in a Sennett publicity release.

Hurlock left Sennett in early 1928 to travel abroad, and married Connelly on Oct 4, 1930 in New York. In 1935, she divorced Connelly, and on Jun 15, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary, married his good friednd Sherwood - with whom she lived in Manhattan until his death in 1955. Hurlock died at 89 in New York City.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, pp.516~17

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