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4 unusual facts about Charley Chase


Charley Chase

Chase's sound comedies for Hal Roach were briefly televised in the late 1990s on the short-lived American cable network the Odyssey Channel.

Charlie Chase

Charley Chase (1893–1940), American comedian, screenwriter and film director

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party (1937 film), a 1937 Charley Chase Technicolor short unseen for nearly 60 years until the soundtrack disc was rediscovered in 2000

Linda Loredo

The Hal Roach Studios produced foreign-language versions of their most popular series -- Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Harry Langdon—for the lucrative Spanish markets in both hemispheres.


Arthur Q. Bryan

One especially memorable appearance was in the Charley Chase short "South of the Boudoir" (1940); as Charley's boss, he spoke in his normal voice, but when surreptitiously coming onto to wife Ann Doran, he switches to baby talk in the Fudd voice.

Charles Lamont

After Educational shut down its Hollywood studio, Lamont was hired by Columbia Pictures to work with such stars as Charley Chase and The Three Stooges, but his stay was short ("I had an intense hatred for Columbia's president Harry Cohn," said Lamont to authors Ted Okuda and Edward Watz).

Edna Marion

She began her career in the 1920s, starring in Edward Ludwig's Broadway Beauties, followed by several appearances in Francis Corby's productions and spending much of the late 1920s at the Hal Roach studios, alongside comedians Charley Chase, Laurel and Hardy, and others.

Marion Byron

From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny (5') Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief (3 film) series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929.

The Music Box

The steps can also be seen in the 1925 Charley Chase silent comedy, Isn't Life Terrible?, during a scene in which Chase is trying to sell fountain pens to Fay Wray.


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