ID Request/Quiz on a silent comedy film

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 10:56 am

JFK wrote:1. I have a wild idea as to the identity of the tattered, taller player
in the blurry second image below that I found on the internet.
2. Guess the name of anyone you think the taller player might be
3. Are you done guessing?
I reveal my own guess below in tiny (05) white typeface-
the same sort of "spy typeface" Putin uses when sending Trump valentines.
Merely click the "quote" button to read my tortured reasoning.
......My eyes aren't so good, but could John Wayne have made a film (see image below)
in the summer of 1924, while still attending Glendale High School ?
Excerpt: Wikipedia Glendale High School Entry
"The school continued to grow, as enrollment reached 800 in 1920 and 1,050 in 1921.
It was decided then to move the Grade 10, 11 and 12 classes to a new campus at the corner of the present-day Broadway Avenue and Verdugo Road (Grade 9 students remained at the Maryland Street campus, and were later integrated into area Middle Schools). The school has remained in this location (1440 East Broadway, at the southeast corner of Verdugo) since 1924." "The large weights and sizes of the players in the 1924-1925 American football team, with all of the starting 11 players weighing 170 pounds or more and with almost all of them six or more feet tall, made them, in the words of the authors of Duke: The Life and Times of John Wayne, "a high school phenomenon"."
Mermaid Comedies had a studio on Verdugo Road in Glendale (at least they did in 1922) and of course Wayne showed up in a Norman Taurog short, The Draw Back (1927), a few years later.
Click image for a larger version which you should then click again for slightly better results
which, at the very least, prove me goofy....

R Michael Pyle wrote:If we didn't write this, how do we hit an "edit" button?
Oops Thanks I meant hit the "quote" button-
I have now corrected my initial post

R Michael Pyle · Post by **R Michael Pyle** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:53 am

If we didn't write this, how do we hit an "edit" button?

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:51 pm

Click the image below for a larger version, which you should then click again for even more gigantic results

odinthor · Post by **odinthor** » Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:47 pm

Carefully not revealing anything: Certainly, among other indications, the shadow under his cheekbone matches that in another pic I find...

LouieD · Post by **LouieD** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:59 am

No way. Not him in any way.

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:59 am

While the (anonymous) polling remains open - early indicators suggest I am, once again, full of- if not positively overflowing with- hooey.
And thus, my dream of obtaining this lobby card cheaply, and then re-selling it for millions, is quickly fading, leaving behind only the bitter taste of nitrate ashes in my mouth.
And yet..... even if my football-playing-actor identification is rejected by the voters, I do have another "unidentified actor" guess to throw into the mix... I'm now suggesting -with somewhat less confidence- that the mysterious man grasping the tall football player is none other than film funnyman Kevin Hart.

Tommie Hicks · Post by **Tommie Hicks** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 4:00 pm

I do know who one of the persons in the picture is, he is Harry Thaw. Lige Conley was 5'2". Harry Thaw was only a couple of inches higher.

The unknown man in the pic is not tall enough to be the pilgrim proclaimer of cinema legend. My guess is Charlie Phillips.