{"id":3401,"date":"2025-08-10T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:45:31","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-show-people-1928-and-karl-dane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-show-people-1928-and-karl-dane\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Show People (1928) and Karl Dane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-1.jpg\" alt=\"Marion Davies in Show People\" class=\"wp-image-3403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:13,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/film\\\/the-red-mill&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250706000930\\\/https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/film\\\/the-red-mill\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 06:57:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-12 21:17:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-21 09:31:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-28 00:04:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 19:57:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 12:25:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 18:32:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-25 09:20:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 08:59:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:16:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 10:32:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 01:00:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 11:05:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-18 03:36:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 07:26:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 21:05:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-10 23:13:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-15 02:27:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-15 02:27:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-2.jpg\" alt=\"The cast of Show People\" class=\"wp-image-3404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> thought I was past the point of laughing at people making silly faces, but Marion Davies made me giggle. This is a &#8220;small town girl goes to Hollywood to make it big&#8221; movie, and it&#8217;s full of references to and cameos of stars who have faded from public memory. At one point Peggy (Davies) gets excited and yells &#8220;That&#8217;s John Gilbert!&#8221;, and I had to look him up to see if he was a real person or made up for the movie (he was real).  I did recognize Charlie Chaplin, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This movie is a sort-silent film. There&#8217;s no recorded dialogue, but it came with a soundtrack record. Trying to keep them synchronized must have been a nightmare for the projectionist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walk of Fame: Karl Dane<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/karl-dane.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Karl Dane's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Karl Dane.\" class=\"wp-image-3405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/karl-dane.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/karl-dane-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/karl-dane-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/09\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-syncopation-1942-and-mona-barrie\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3386\">Mona Barrie and Syncopation<\/a>, I picked this movie specifically to see a Karl Dane performance, and he&#8217;s barely in it. He does a thirty second bit as himself at a luncheon. I probably should have gone with <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/film\/the-red-mill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Red Mill<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dane is one of those successful actors who had their career killed by sound pictures; He had a thick Dutch accent, and no one could understand him.  He looked for other work, but ended up broke. He died from suicide, and only received a proper funeral when MGM was shamed into paying for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s poster is all about the people. It&#8217;s also my second attempt at reasonable handwriting in a week. I need more practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Show people mimicking the poster for Ordinary People.\" class=\"wp-image-3402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/show-people.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard there are no people like Show People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}