Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Film Fun
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Content== The cover of the first edition featured [[Harold Lloyd]] but named as "Winkle", the screen name by which he was known in Britain at the time. Apart from [[Laurel and Hardy]], ''Film Fun'' used to feature many film and stage comedians of that era like [[Charlie Chaplin]],<ref name="lambiek.net">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wakefield_t.htm|title=Terence Wakefield}}</ref> [[Abbott and Costello]],<ref name="lambiek.net1">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/ward_norman.htm|title=Norman Yendell Ward}}</ref><ref name="lambiek.net2">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bell_walter.htm|title=Walter Bell}}</ref> [[Buster Keaton]], [[Ben Turpin]],<ref name="lambiek.net3">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wakefield_gw.htm|title=George William Wakefield}}</ref> [[Jackie Coogan]], [[Fatty Arbuckle]],<ref name="lambiek.net3"/> [[Joe E. Brown]],<ref name="lambiek.net3"/> [[George Formby]],<ref name="lambiek.net3"/> [[Wheeler & Woolsey]],<ref name="lambiek.net3"/> [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]],<ref name="lambiek.net3"/> [[Lupino Lane]],<ref name="lambiek.net3"/> [[Red Skelton]],<ref name="lambiek.net"/> [[Harold Lloyd]] (named ''Winkle'' in those days),<ref name="lambiek.net4">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/radford_tom.htm|title=Tom Radford}}</ref> [[W. C. Fields]], [[Terry-Thomas]],<ref name="lambiek.net"/> [[Sid Field]], [[Frank Randle]], [[Morecambe and Wise]],<ref name="lambiek.net5">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wilson_roy.htm|title=Roy Wilson}}</ref> [[James Cagney]],<ref name="lambiek.net6">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/walker_jos.htm|title=Jos Walker}}</ref> [[Tony Hancock]], [[Sid James]], [[The Goon Show]], [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Tommy Cooper]],<ref name="lambiek.net7">{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pease_charlie.htm|title=Charlie Pease}}</ref> [[Martin and Lewis]], [[Arthur Lucan]] (in his drag role as Old Mother Riley) and [[Bruce Forsyth]]. There would also be serialised cowboy films featuring stars like [[Roy Rogers]] and [[Gene Autry]]. There were also detective stories featuring a fictional detective named Jack Keen.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)