Quite the gathering expected at the 4th annual reunion of the #MackSennett Alumni association, including #JamesFinlayson
Source: San Bernadino Sun-Telegraph, 29 Jul 1951, p. 12 via California Digital Newspaper Collection
#silentfilm

#WillRogers and #JamesFinlayson during filming of OUR CONGRESSMAN (1924)
#HalRoach #SilentFilm

Source: ’News of the Lots Told by Pictures’, Illustrated Daily News, 6 Apr 1924, p. 11 via California Digital Newspaper Collection, UC Riverside

Join #SilentFilm star #JamesFinlayson on a walk from #Stenhousemuir to #Larbert

https://jamesfinlayson.actor/2023/05/28/doing-the-larbert-walk/

91 years ago:
The Chimp (US)
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
1932-05-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48670
#TheChimp #JamesParrott #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #JamesFinlayson #MGM #PreCode #ClassicMovies

83 years ago:
Saps at Sea (US)
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
1940-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46260
#SapsatSea #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #JamesFinlayson #Film

90 years ago:
Me and My Pal (US)
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift. The boys soon become absorbed in the puzzle. A taxi driver, butler, policeman and messenger boy join in as well.
1933-04-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48830
#MeandMyPal #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #JamesFinlayson #MGM #PreCode #ClassicFilm

94 years ago:
Big Business (US)
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
1929-04-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48649
#BigBusiness #JamesWHorne #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #JamesFinlayson #PreCode #Film

103 years ago:
Down on the Farm (US)
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
1920-04-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/287330
#DownontheFarm #JamesFinlayson #BenTurpin #PreCode #Film

86 years ago:
Way Out West (US)
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
1937-04-16
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25599
#WayOutWest #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #JamesFinlayson #MGM #Western #Film

97 years ago:
Madame Mystery (US)
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
1926-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/417252
#MadameMystery #StanLaurel #JamesFinlayson #OliverHardy #PreCode #ClassicFilm

95 years ago:
Flying Elephants (US)
Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.
1928-02-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48820
#FlyingElephants #FrankButler #StanLaurel #OliverHardy #JamesFinlayson #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film