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Larry Semon. Director: The Show. Slapstick comedian known for his charming, white-painted face and clownish smile, mugged his way to being a very highly paid and popular actor. His career was marred by personal problems, and his fortune was lost to high spending.
American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight, Larry Semon was the son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great. He grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics.
Nov 29, 2015 · Learn about the life and career of Larry Semon, a silent film star who worked with Laurel and Hardy and tried to remake The Wizard of Oz. Find out how he rose and fell in the film industry, and why he is still remembered in Germany.
Larry Semon was a silent movie actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who worked with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. He was born in 1889 in Mississippi and died in 1928 in California.
Nov 3, 2015 · A biography and filmography of Larry Semon, a popular silent film star and director who rivaled Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton. The book covers his life, career, family, legacy and lost films, based on 30 years of research.
The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who has the lead role of a Kansas farmhand disguised as the Scarecrow.
Larry Semon was an early 20th-century American film comedian and director. He was one of the most popular stars of the 1910s and 1920s and worked together with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they became a duo.
