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A Doggone Mixup (1938) - Harry Langdon

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metaldams:

--- Quote from: Umbrella Sam on December 19, 2020, 09:30:33 PM ---I occasionally use iBooks if I don’t feel like having to order a book and waiting for it to arrive, but generally I tend to prefer actually having physical copies of books. I just checked and it looks like Harry Langdon: King of Silent Comedy is available through iBooks, but not Little Elf.

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Yeah, it’s available - for $39.99.  May as well get the physical book for that price.

I’m cool going digital if it saves me money.  I bought Rob Halford’s newly released auto biography Confess for $15 digital, it’s $30 physical.  That’s worth it.  If the Langdon book was $15 or $20 digital, I’d probably download it.

Umbrella Sam:
True. I’m still waiting for the same reason.

There’s a YouTube channel that has collected a bunch of Harry’s shorts as well as his supporting roles. I’ve been watching some of those clips of his supporting roles and realized that Harry probably had the most interesting post-silent career of all the 4 major silent comedians. While Keaton was usually hired to either be like silent Keaton or Elmer in his later appearances, Harry’s roles were actually quite varied, to the point that I think he really could have had a great career as a character actor had he not unfortunately died so early.

Paul Pain:

--- Quote from: HomokHarcos on December 17, 2020, 06:29:15 PM ---I've been reading a biography on Harry Langdon. He was touring Australia and England during that time.

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Thanks for sharing this information!

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