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A suitor (Johnny Arthur) tries to impress the girl (Virginia Vance) of his dreams, but she's more interested in the silent-movie stars of the day, so he tries to impersonate them, including Douglas Fairbanks. Directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
1926
English
Comedy
Silent
Short Subject
Cast & Crew
Johnny Arthur
(Actor)
.. The Boy
Virginia Vance
(Actor)
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Johnny Arthur
(Actor)
.. The Boy
Born:
May 10, 1883
Died: December 31, 1951
Died: December 31, 1951
Trivia:
Prissy, trimly mustached comic actor Johnny Arthur was a veteran of 25 years on stage before he entered films in 1923 as a utility player. His screen personality was nebulous enough to allow him to play the romantic lead in the 1925 Lon Chaney vehicle The Monster. At the Al Christie studio, Arthur established himself as a star comedian in a series of slapstick two-reelers. With the coming of talkies, Arthur began specializing in comic "nance" types -- limp-wristed, whiny-voiced homosexual stereotypes. His largest role along these stereotypical lines was as reporter Benny Kidd in the first movie-version of The Desert Song (1929). Once the Production Code was established in 1933, the "pansy" characters played by Arthur were banned from the screen. He spent the rest of the 1930s playing fussy, long-suffering wimps, albeit certifiably "masculine"; he is best-remembered for his appearances as Darla Hood's mealy-mouthed father in Hal Roach's Our Gang series. Most of Arthur's later roles were unbilled bits, with the notable exception of the 1942 Republic serial The Masked Marvel, in which he hissed and slithered his way through the role of Japanese villain Sakima. Unable to find film work in the last years of his life, Johnny Arthur died at the age of 68 at the Motion Picture Country Home.
Virginia Vance
(Actor)
Born:
January 01, 1901
Died: October 13, 1942
Died: October 13, 1942
Trivia:
As boxer Gene Tunney's leading lady in the 1926 Pathé serial The Fighting Marine, pretty Virginia Vance also co-starred in numerous two-reel comedies produced by the ill-named Educational Pictures. She was the wife of silent screen star Bryant Washburn.
