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by Bob Birchard
November 17th, 2007, 3:37 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Bob, Thanks so much for spending the week with us! It was very generous of you to take the time to not only answer our questions but check in and respond to other threads in other forums. I hope you will continue to do so as I think many of us would like to continue to learn from you. Again thank y...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 8:52 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Mr. B, Thanks for that exhilarating answer- good fun! Your casting suggestions are also hilarious. Point well taken and I always thought someone from Cirque de Soleil would have to play Keaton. I prefer the non-sensationalized truth, too, but truth can be stranger than fiction sometimes! Take THE A...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 8:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shhhhh! It's Time to Pick Your Bestavorite Silents!
Replies: 353
Views: 88864

Mr. Birchard: I must say I like your list, You don't seem to favor any one particular genre and you have a few relative unknown films. Number 21 Where's Poppa intrigues me. I dated a guy who LIVED for comedy films. To him the sun rose and set with comedy and that was the best comedy ever made in hi...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 7:06 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Hi Bob, First I have to say that I've really enjoyed your answers to all of the questions. I love the fact that you've strolled around the other threads and made some comments. If you were interested, I'm sure we would all love to see a list of your top 25 films posted in the pick the best movie th...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 7:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shhhhh! It's Time to Pick Your Bestavorite Silents!
Replies: 353
Views: 88864

Re: Choose The Best Movie of All Time!

At least that's where I'd like this thread to head. I've had an idea kicking around in my noggin for quite some time and just haven't had the patience to enact it. I've even discussed this idea somewhere on the boards, but for the life of me I don't remember where I was rambling on about it. (snip)...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 6:41 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Mr. Birchard, Thank-you for a very interesting discussion! It seems that films come to the big screen in clusters ie: westerns, and I would be interested in your choice for new productions of biographical movies such as CHAPLIN. A film on Keaton, Lloyd, Chaney, Swanson or Clara Bow would be very we...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 2:39 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Thanks so much for visiting this site, Mr. Birchard. You mentioned earlier in this thread that you knew the pioneering photographer-cinematographer Karl Struss . Could you please write a bit about his remarkable career, and especially his work as the cinematographer of F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1926)?...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 2:24 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Hi Bob - Although I live in NoCal, I have yet to make it to a Cinecon. I was tempted a couple years ago, when you ran The Letter with Jeanne Eagels. Subsequently, I had heard that it was to be included on the DVD release with the Bette Davis version, so I was looking forward to obtaining this. But ...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 1:49 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

First off, thanks for stopping by to chat with us this week. I wish I'd had more time to post, but the discussion has been quite interesting. It's great to see you posting to some other threads as well. I'm really interested in film preservation, especially of silents. But interested seems to be th...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 4:33 am
Forum: Musicals
Topic: Dan Dailey: Likable, Talented, or...Not?
Replies: 43
Views: 46002

Re: Dan Dailey: Likable, Talented, or...Not?

http://www.geocities.com/finial12/dandailey.JPG Dan Dailey with his frequent partner Betty Grable (above), in some 20th Century Fox musicals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Having come across a couple of Dan Dailey 's musical and non-musical films of late, I find myself wondering if othe...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 4:20 am
Forum: Musicals
Topic: Ruby Keeler
Replies: 16
Views: 11053

Re: "Give that youngster a chance!"-Julian Marsh (

I like Ruby Keeler , think she's plucky, lucky in her choice of a well-connected hubby, and darned cute. She's no Eleanor Powell , but I don't think she "dances like a cow", as I read once on that "other place", and I'm very fond of her performance opposite her then-husband Al J...
by Bob Birchard
November 16th, 2007, 4:06 am
Forum: Musicals
Topic: Bing Crosby
Replies: 21
Views: 10851

Re: Bing Crosby

Okay, musical mavens, I've a question for you about Bing Crosby , (and it has nothing to do with his sometimes painful personal life). If you were trying to introduce Mr. C. to someone unfamiliar with his vocal accomplishments what movie might you recommend? Do you think that there is one film that...
by Bob Birchard
November 15th, 2007, 2:17 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

We have always heard about the actors that didn't make the transition from silents to sound but are there directors who suffered a similar fate? If so, what would have been their problem(s)? Yes, indeed there were a number of directors who didn't make the transition, or whose careers tanked in te t...
by Bob Birchard
November 15th, 2007, 3:16 am
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Bob Birchard, [snip] :lol: Harold Lloyd is my Idol, so it's always great to hear nice things said about him, and his work! To many film historians seem oblivious to Lloyd, to say nothing of main stream critics! This really ticks me off! I consider it their loss! :roll: Regarding THE BIG PARADE, I h...
by Bob Birchard
November 15th, 2007, 2:13 am
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Bob Birchard
Replies: 63
Views: 39388

Hi Bob - I’m interested to find out what you may be able to tell us about actor Henry Wilcoxon , his casting as Marc Anthony in Cleopatra, and his professional and social relationship with DeMille. This actor made quite an impression on me (be still my heart) the first time I saw Cleopatra, and the...