File:Caricatures of some leading comedians in American films, 1915.jpg
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English: Screen shot of page with heading "Penographs of Leading Players" depicting nine separate pen-and-ink drawings (caricatures or "penographs") of some actors recognized as top comedians in American films in 1915; a title for the group of drawings reads "Some of the Funny Chaps in the Movies"; drawings featured in a two-page spread with other caricatures on facing page; published in Motion Picture Magazine (Brooklyn, New York), June 1915, p. 131; images were drawn by some of the prominent caricaturists of that era; the actors or "players" represented (from top-left to right): Fred Mace, Victor Potel, [Ford] Sterling [Roscoe "Fatty"] Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Hughey Mack, Mabel Normand, a "boxed" Barry O'Moore [real name Herbert Yost] drawn by John Argens, and the male child performer Little Billy Jacobs with unidentified little girl (possibly child star Thelma Slater) wearing large bow in her hair. |
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| Source | Published in June 1915 issue of Motion Picture Magazine; digital copy of entire issue at Internet Archive, San Francisco, California: https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag09moti/page/n882/mode/1up |
| Author | Caricatures of film actors by various artists of the era. |
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