The Warner Archive will reportedly, regularly, continue to add short subject collections to its online library:
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The Joe McDoakes Collection in October - Warner Archive honored August's $19.95 pre-orders. It's now listed at $39.95, 63 one-reelers on 6 discs. For Stooge fans, Fred Kelsey (MICRO-PHONIES, HORSES' COLLARS, PARDON MY BACKFIRE, MONKEY BUSINESSMEN) was a regular supporting player in the
McDoakes comedies; for
Superman fans, so was Phyllis "Lois Lane" Coates.
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The Dogville Collection in September, with the nine MGM 1930 - 1931 canine two-reelers produced and written by
Jules White and Zion Myers.
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The Robert Benchley Collection was announced this week, 30 MGM one-reelers from 1935 - 1944. It's currently "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" on the Archive site at a pre-order price of $19.95; it'll be in the new listings at its permanent selling price (?) in a few weeks. btw, Benchley costarred in
DANCING LADY (1933), and shared a couple scenes with Ted Healy. And Benchley's grandson is Peter Benchley, author of
Jaws; which was spoofed by Hanna-Barbera as
Jabberjaw, whose voice was a takeoff on Curly Howard, by voice-actor Frank Welker, who was interviewed by Steve Cox in the
Fall 2009 Three Stooges Journal. (That's called "98.6 degrees of The Three Stooges.")
