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Oh, Baby!, the 1926 Harley Knoles silent New York City Prohibition boxing sports cross-dressing mistaken identity screwball comedy ("The Laugh Hit of New York"; a really wild and zany story about a prizefighter whose manager is a little person, and a friend of his has a relative visiting who thinks he has a wife and daughter, and he convinces the manager to wear girl's clothes and pretend to be his "daughter", and he agrees, but during the impersonation, he must go to Madison Square Garden dressed as a young girl, and go to ringside and help his fighter win the big fight!) starring Madge Kennedy, 'Little Billy' Rhodes (billed as "Little Billy"), Creighton Hale, David Butler, Ethel Shannon, Flora Finch, Damon Runyon, "and a big cast of Broadway celebrities" (which referred to then-famous sports journalist figures, who played themselves, including Grantland Rice, Jimmy Cannon, Ring Lardner, and Graham McNamee). Note that 'Little Billy' Rhodes was a "little person" who started in movies at the age of 31. He appeared in many of the most important movies that little people appeared in, including The Terror of Tiny Town, The Wizard of Oz, The Court Jester, and many circus related movies that required little people. He had a long career, starting with "Oh, Baby!" in 1926, and finishing with a role in 1966, 40 years later! He passed away the following year. Note that it is also interesting that this wacky movie (which seems clearly to be the inspiration for Damon Runyon's "Lady for a Day", which he wrote three years after this movie, which he had a cameo role in) was written by Arthur Hoerl, who is completely forgotten today, but who wrote screenplays for an astounding 150 movies between 1921 and 1968, but most were in the 1920s and 1930s (he is best remembered for scripting the "classic" 1936 movie "Tell Your Children", which is now known as "Reefer Madness"). Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Important Added Info: Note that glass slides were designed to be put in a special projector that would project the image onto a movie screen (they use exactly the same concept as 35mm slides). We have taken a digital photo of each that shows the general condition of the overall slide and holder, and we have also made a digital scan that shows the glass image well, but does not show the holder (except as a dark outline).

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