Movie Publicity Showcase Volume 22

“Movie Publicity Showcase – Volume 22” places a number of Charley Chase film shorts into their historical “first run” contexts, utilizing original press materials from the 1930’s. Read about your favorite stars as they were during the day of these movies’ initial releases. See how creative theater managers could draw in an audience when movie exhibition was an art form. Step back into time and see what movie fans of that day experienced when going to the movies! This is the twenty-second of a series, and contains material on the Charley Chase films “Nurse to You,” “Hasty Marriage,” “In Walked Charley,” “First in War,” “I’ll Take Vanilla,” “Something Simple,“and “Neighborhood House.” Additional material covers the Chase shorts “Old Ironsides,“Mr. Bride,” “Girl Grief” and more. Foreword by John K. Carpenter (The Movie Man) and stills from the John Carpenter Collection.

Author Biography

I. Joseph Hyatt is an entertainment archeologist/author. A member of the Sons of the Desert, the Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society, Hyatt’s articles and books have been printed internationally. Traveling across the US, and drawing on many collections, including his own, his books bring back past eras with words and photographs. I. Joseph Hyatt currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Union County Performing Arts Center of New Jersey, a fully restored 1928 movie/vaudeville palace.