1920 s BEN TURPIN VINTAGE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE for Sale

On eBay Now...

1920 s BEN TURPIN VINTAGE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE For Sale

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

1920 s BEN TURPIN VINTAGE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
$243.67

1920's BEN TURPIN VINTAGE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
NEGATIVE MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 4 7/8 X 7 3/8 INCHESBernard "Ben" Turpin was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks were his cross-eyed appearance and adeptness at vigorous physical comedy.
Ben Turpin was a American cross-eyed comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films.
Turpin was born Bernard Turpin in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 19, 1869, the son of a candy store owner.
He worked in vaudeville, burlesque, and circuses. Turpin had a distinctive appearance, with a small wiry frame, a brush mustache, and crossed eyes. Turpin's famous eyes, he said, only crossed as a young adult after he suffered an accident. Turpin was convinced that the crossed eyes were essential to his comic career; his co-workers recalled that after he received any blow to the head he made a point of looking himself in the mirror to assure himself that they had not become uncrossed. Turpin was a devout Catholic, and his workmates would occasionally goad him by threatening to pray that Turpin's eyes would uncross, thus depriving him of his livelihood.
Turpin famously bought a $25,000 insurance policy with Lloyd's of London, payable if his eyes ever uncrossed. He developed a vigorous style of physical comedy, including an ability to stage comic pratfalls that impressed even his fellow workers in the rough-and-tumble world of silent comedy. One of his specialties was a backward tumble he called the "hundred an' eight'" .
Ben Turpin and his trademark crossed-eyes shot to super-stardom when he joined Mack Sennett's studio in 1917. At the height of his career he would introduce himself with, "I'm Ben Turpin; I make $3000 a week." Hardly an overnight success, he had worked for decades in the circus, vaudeville, burlesque and film before being signed by Sennett. There, his comic potential was maximized by casting him against type, as when he plays a sophisticated playboy. With the advent of sound motion pictures, he retired, having made a fortune with wise real estate investment. He occasionally returned to movies for highly-paid cameos. Viewing his work almost a century later, he is still hilarious.A Clever Dummy (1917) Ben impersonates a mechanical man in aattempt to win over the young lady who has captured his heart.A Night Out (1915) Ben Turpin teams with the legendary Charlie Chaplin as two drunken pals whose running feud with a bar patron, escalates into an all-out brawl. In this rareappearance Ben plays it straight (although soused) without his trademark crossed-eyes and delivers a riotous performance. This film also marked the debut of beautiful 19 year old Edna Purviance, who would be featured in all of Chaplin's films over the next 8 years.Idle Eyes (1928) Hungry tramp Ben goes on a quest to find a meal by any means necessary. The sequence with Billy Barty as the baby is not to be missed.
Ben Turpin was famous for his cross-eyes and slapstick comedy in theheyday of vaudeville and silent pictures.
Turpin played with Charlie Chaplin on the screen and was the first towin roars of laughter from audiences with slapstick routines.
Turpin was one of the few stars of the silent era who saved his money.At one time he was rated a millionaire. His salary at the the height ofhis career, was reported about $3500 weekly.
He was signed by the old Essanay Studio in Chicago, when BroncoBilly Anderson first started his thrillers. He appeared in several withCharlie Chaplin before Chaplin came into prominence.
His career brought him West and he joined the Keystone Kops andbathing beauties made famous by Mack Sennett. Turpin appeared inscores of two-reeler comedies for Sennett and other companies and,on occasion took roles in the talkies.
â€” Los Angeles Times July 2, 1940~Filmography~The Hollywood Dressmaker (1929) .... BenThe Show of Shows (1929) .... Waiter in 'What Became of the FloradoraBoys' NumberA Woman's Way (1928)The Wife's Relations (1928) .... Rodney St. Clair... aka The Lost Heiress (UK)Holding His Own (1928) .... Ben MuggsIdle Eyes (1928) .... Benjamin TurpsSeein' Things (1928)She Said No (1928)The Cockeyed Family (1928) .... Amos GilligThe Eyes Have It (1928)Why Babies Leave Home (1928) .... Their Wandering Boy/The Old ManDaddy Boy (1927)... aka Daddyboy (USA: copyright title)The College Hero (1927) .... The JanitorLove's Languid Lure (1927)The Pride of Pikeville (1927) .... The Pride of PikevilleBroke in China (1927)The Jolly Jilter (1927) ... Virgil VancourtA Hollywood Hero (1927) ... Gerald MontagueA Blonde's Revenge (1926) .... Gerald MontagueA Harem Knight (1926) .... Rodney St. ClairA Prodigal Bridegroom (1926) .... Rodney St. ClairWhen a Man's a Prince (1926)Steel Preferred (1925) .... BartenderHogan's Alley (1925) .... A StrangerThe Marriage Circus (1925)The Raspberry Romance (1925)The Wild Goose Chaser (1925)The Reel Virginian (1924)Three Foolish Weeks (1924) .... Rodney St. ClairRomeo and Juliet (1924)Yukon Jake (1924) .... Sheriff Cyclone BillThe Hollywood Kid (1924)Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924)The Daredevil (1923) .... Joe Magee, actorAsleep at the Switch (1923)Pitfalls of a Big City (1923)... aka The Pitfalls of a Great City (USA: poster title)Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? (1923)The Shriek of Araby (1923) .... The SheikHollywood (1923) ... HimselfHome Made Movies (1922)Step Forward (1922)Bright Eyes (1922) .... Oil magnetLove and Doughnuts (1921)Molly O' (1921) (uncredited)Love's Outcast (1921)Home Talent (1921) .... Stranded ActorShe Sighed by the Seaside (1921)A Small Town Idol (1921) .... Sam SmithThe Quack Doctor (1920)You Wouldn't Believe It (1920)Married Life (1920) .... Rodney St. ClairDown on the Farm (1920/I) .... Her HusbandThe Star Boarder (1920)Bloggie's Vacation (1920)Countess Bloggie (1920)
The Speakeasy (1919) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)A Lady's Tailor (1919)Salome vs. Shenandoah (1919)Uncle Tom Without a Cabin (1919) .... Uncle Tom... aka Uncle Tom Without the Cabin (USA)... aka Uncle Tom's CabinThe Dentist (1919)Treating 'Em Rough (1919/I) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)Trying to Get Along (1919)No Mother to Guide Him (1919) .... A happy married manLove's False Faces (1919)When Love Is Blind (1919) .... First PalThe Foolish Age (1919) .... Choir memberThe Village Smithy (1919) (uncredited)Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919) .... A Guardsman... aka The Kaiser's Last Squeal (USA: alternative title)East Lynne with Variations (1919) .... The HeroCupid's Day Off (1919)Hide and Seek, Detectives (1918)Whose Little Wife Are You? (1918)Sleuths (1918)She Loved Him Plenty (1918)Her Screen Idol (1918)Two Tough Tenderfeet (1918) .... First PalLove Loops the Loop (1918)The Battle Royal (1918)His Smothered Love (1918)Saucy Madeline (1918) .... A Rolling Stone Out of WorkSheriff Nell's Tussle (1918) .... Honest Eyed Jack, Still After HerWatch Your Neighbor (1918)Taming Target Center (1917) .... The Old SheriffThat Night (1917)Are Waitresses Safe? (1917) .... Ralph, Who Loved Her SoRoping Her Romeo (1917) .... Honest Eyed Jack, a Poor Butterfly... aka A Lovesick Bandit (USA: reissue title)A Bedroom Blunder (1917) .... Hotel Desk Clerk... aka Room 23 (USA: alternative title)The Pawnbroker's Heart (1917)Lost: A Cook (1917)Pete's Pants (1917) .... Ben TurpinTwo Laughs (1917) .... Special Delivery BoyA Clever Dummy (1917) .... A romantic janitorSole Mates (1917)Cactus Nell (1917)Oriental Love (1917) (unconfirmed)Caught in the End (1917/II)Bucking the Tiger (1917)Masked Mirth (1917)When Ben Bolted (1917) .... Ben... aka He Looked Crooked (USA) (USA: video title)Frightened Flirts (1917)His Bogus Boast (1917)... aka A Cheerful LiarA Studio Stampede (1917)The Butcher's Nightmare (1917)The Musical Marvel (1917)A Circus Cyclone (1917)Jealous Jolts (1916)Taking the Count (1916) .... A Cabin StewardShot in the Fracas (1916)A Waiting Game (1916) .... A TrampThe Wicked City (1916)Some Bravery (1916) .... A BellhopPicture Pirates (1916)A Safe Proposition (1916) .... A BurglarHe Did and He Didn't (1916/II)Ducking a Discord (1916)Poultry Ã la Mode (1916)... aka Poultry (USA)... aka The HaremDoctoring a Leak (1916)... aka A Total LossThe Stolen Booking (1916)Some Liars (1916)Lost and Found (1916)Bungling Bill's Dress Suit (1916)For Ten Thousand Bucks (1916) .... BloggieA Deep Sea Liar (1916) .... Bloggie... aka The LandlubberHired and Fired (1916/I) .... Bloggie... aka The Leading ManJust for a Kid (1916)When Papa Died (1916)The Iron Mitt (1916) .... BloggieDelinquent Bridegrooms (1916) .... BloggieHis Blowout (1916) .... Bloggie... aka The PlumberNailing on the Lid (1916)... aka Nailing a Lie (USA)National Nuts (1916)Burlesque on Carmen (1916) .... Remendados... aka Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen (USA: complete title)A Christmas Revenge (1915) .... LoaferSnakeville's Champion (1915) .... BloggieThe Escape of Broncho Billy (1915)The Merry Models (1915) .... BloggieBroncho Billy's Love Affair (1915)It Happened in Snakeville (1915) .... BloggieToo Much Turkey (1915) .... The NeighborWhen Snakeville Struck Oil (1915)The Convict's Threat (1915) .... PrisonerSnakeville's Hen Medic (1915) .... BloggieBroncho Billy and the Card Sharp (1915)A Quiet Little Game (1915) .... The UndertakerVersus Sledge Hammers (1915) .... The Count's ValetBroncho Billy Steps In (1915)The Bell-Hop (1915) .... The Bell-HopSnakeville's Twins (1915) .... The Henpecked HusbandOthers Started It, But Sophie Finished (1915) .... The HusbandSweedie's Finish (1915)Sophie and the Fakir (1915) .... Sophie's Husband... aka Sophie and the Faker (USA: alternative title)A Bunch of Matches (1915) .... Justice of the PieceSweedie's Hero (1915) .... The BellboySweedie in Vaudeville (1915)How Slippery Slim Saw the Show (1915)The Undertaker's Uncle (1915) .... The Uncle... aka The Undertaker's WifeTheir Social Splash (1915) (unconfirmed)... aka Social Splash (USA: alternative title)A Coat Tale (1915) .... HusbandCuriosity (1915) .... The LunaticTwo Bold, Bad Men (1915) .... First Bad ManSweedie Learns to Ride (1915) .... Sweedie's RomeoLove and Trouble (1915) .... Sweedie's BeauThe Champion (1915) .... Ringside vendor... aka Battling Charlie... aka Champion Charlie... aka Charlie the Champion (USA: alternative title)Sweedie's Hopeless Love (1915) .... The Grocery BoyHogan Out West (1915)A Night Out (1915/I) .... Fellow Reveller... aka Champagne Charlie... aka Charlie's Drunken Daze (USA: alternative title)... aka Charlie's Night Out (USA: alternative title)... aka His Night Out (USA: alternative title)Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)Sweedie Goes to College (1915) .... Sweedie's RomeoHis New Job (1915) .... Film Extra, in Anteroom... aka Charlie's New JobTwo Hearts That Beat as Ten (1915)Sweedie and Her Dog (1915) .... Captain of the Dog CatchersThe Clubman's Wager (1915) .... TrampSweedie's Suicide (1915) .... Police CaptainSweedie and the Sultan's Present (1915)Snakeville's Debutantes (1915) .... BloggieSweedie Collects for Charity (1914)Their Cheap Vacation (1914)Madame Double X (1914)Sweedie and the Hypnotist (1914)Sweedie at the Fair (1914)Sweedie the Trouble Maker (1914)The Laundress (1914)... aka Sweedie, the Laundress (USA)She Landed a Big One (1914) .... Chief of Police... aka She Landed a Lord (USA)Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914)The Fickleness of Sweedie (1914)Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie (1914)Sweedie's Clean-Up (1914)Sweedie's Skate (1914)Sweedie Springs a Surprise (1914)Sweedie and the Double Exposure (1914)The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-In (1914)Sweedie and the Lord (1914)Sweedie the Swatter (1914)The Usual Way (1913)The Hobble Skirt (1910)
A Case of Seltzer (1909) .... The brother in dragThe New Cop (1909) (unconfirmed)A Hustling Advertiser (1909) .... The Young ManMr. Flip (1909) .... Mr. FlipA Mexican's Gratitude (1909)The Rubes and the Bunco Men (1909)Midnight Disturbance (1909) .... The BurglarThe Energetic Street Cleaner (1909)Tag Day (1909) .... The TrampThe Haunted Lounge (1909) .... A TrampBen Gets a Duck and Is Ducked (1909)Breaking Into Society (1908)Oh, What Lungs! (1908)The Younger Brothers (1908)A Free Lunch (1907)Mr. Inquisitive (1907)An Awful Skate; or, The Hobo on Rollers (1907) .... The Hobo
Bernard "Ben" Turpin (September 19, 1869[2] â€“ July 1, 1940) was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks were his cross-eyed appearance and adeptness at vigorous physical comedy. Turpin worked with notable performers such as Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, and was a part of the Mack Sennett studio team. He is believed to have been the first filmed "victim" of the pie in the face gag. When sound came to films, Turpin chose to retire, having invested profitably in real estate, although he did do occasional cameos.Contents1 Personal life2 Vaudeville3 Film4 Mack Sennett and stardom5 Turpin in the sound era6 Death7 Turpin's crossed eyes8 Filmography9 See also10 References11 Selective bibliography12 External linksPersonal lifeTurpin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 19, 1869,[2] the son of a candy store owner, [3] Ernest Turpin, and Sarah Buckley.[4]
Turpin and his first wife, actress Carrie Lemieux,[5] were married in Chicago on February 18, 1907.[6] In 1923, Mrs. Turpin became ill with influenza, which caused the loss of her hearing. Heartbroken, Turpin took his seriously ill wife to the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-BeauprÃ© in Quebec, hoping she would be healed.[7] She eventually became an invalid, with Turpin placing his career on hold to care for her. Carrie died on October 2, 1925.[1] Turpin remarried on July 8, 1926, to Babette Dietz in Los Angeles.[4]
He was a Roman Catholic, and a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.[8]
VaudevilleTurpin worked in vaudeville, burlesque, and circuses. He had a distinctive appearance, with a small wiry frame, a brush mustache, and crossed eyes. Turpin's famous eyes, he said, only crossed as a young adult after he suffered an accident. He was convinced that the crossed eyes were essential to his comic career; his co-workers recalled that after he received any blow to the head he made a point of looking himself in the mirror to assure himself that they had not become uncrossed. He was a devout Catholic,[9][10] and his workmates occasionally goaded him by threatening to pray that his eyes would uncross, thus depriving him of his livelihood.
Turpin famously bought a $25,000 insurance policy with Lloyd's of London, payable if his eyes ever uncrossed. A 1920 version of the story had his eyes insured for $100,000.[11] How serious this was is open to question; such publicity stunts centered on a performer's "trademark" were common at the time.
He developed a vigorous style of physical comedy, including an ability to stage comic pratfalls that impressed even his fellow workers in the rough-and-tumble world of silent comedy. One of his specialties was a forward tumble he called the "hundred an' eight". It was basically an interrupted forward somersault initiated by kicking one leg up, turning over 180 degrees to land flat on the back or in a seated position.
Film
Ben Turpin (center) with two of the Sennett Bathing BeautiesTurpin first appeared on film in 1907 for Essanay Studios in Chicago in various small parts and comic bits. In addition to his on-screen work, he worked as a carpenter and janitor for Essanay.[12] In the 1909 film Mr. Flip, Turpin receives what is believed to have been the first pie-in-the-face.[13] By 1912 he was an established â€“ if not major â€“ screen personality, giving interviews and writing articles for the new fan magazines (the first of which had started the year before).
Charlie Chaplin joined the Essanay company in 1915, and the studio made Turpin his second banana. Chaplin was maturing as a filmmaker, working slowly and intuitively. Turpin, however, was impatient with Chaplin's methods. The earthy Turpin understood straightforward slapstick more than comic subtlety. The Chaplinâ€“Turpin duo did not last long, with Chaplin abandoning Chicago for California. Turpin does share one additional credit with Chaplin: after Chaplin filmed Burlesque on Carmen in two reels, Essanay filmed new scenes with Turpin to pad the picture into a featurette, doubling its length.
Essanay did not survive Chaplin's departure and remained solvent for only a few more years. Turpin may have been aware of Essanay's instability; he left for the Vogue comedy company, where he starred in a series of two-reel comedies. Former Essanay comedian Paddy McQuire supported him. Many of Turpin's Vogue comedies were re-released under different titles, to cash in on Turpin's subsequent stardom.
Mack Sennett and stardomIn 1917 Ben Turpin joined the leading comedy company, the Mack Sennett studio. Turpin's aptitude for crude slapstick suited the Sennett style perfectly, and Sennett's writers often cast the ridiculous-looking Turpin against type (a rugged Yukon miner; a suave, worldly lover; a stalwart cowboy; a fearless stuntman, etc.) for maximum comic effect. Through the 1920s his roles often spoofed serious actors and celebrities of the time â€“ e.g., "The Shriek" for "The Sheik" â€“ and Turpin became one of film's most popular comics. Turpin appeared in both short subjects and feature films for Sennett. Delighted with his success, he took to introducing himself with the phrase, "I'm Ben Turpin; I make $3,000 a week."Promotional card issued by the American Caramel company in the USA in 1921Sennett terminated most of his staff's contracts in 1928, and closed the studio to retool for the new talking pictures. Turpin was signed by the low-budget Weiss Brothers-Artclass company, perhaps the most ambitious coup that Artclass ever attempted. Turpin made two-reel comedies there for one year. Artclass usually traded on his peculiar vision with titles like Idle Eyes and The Eyes Have It.
Turpin in the sound era1929 saw many silent-film stars uncertain about their future employment, with the new talking pictures requiring new skills and techniques. Ben Turpin chose to retire. He had invested his earnings in real estate, and, being highly successful at this, had no financial need for more work. Producers soon sought him out for gag appearances in films. Turpin's speaking voice was a gritty rasp that retained elements of the New Orleans "Yat" accent of his youth. He commanded a flat fee of $1000 per appearance, regardless of whether it was a speaking role or a fleeting cameo. Among the most memorable of these cameos was in Paramount's Million Dollar Legs (1932) starring W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie, and Susan Fleming.
He starred in only one more film, the short subject Keystone Hotel (Warner Bros., 1935), a reunion of silent-era comedians. His last feature film was Laurel and Hardy's Saps at Sea in 1940, in which his cross-eyed face served as a joke punchline. He was paid his $1000 for one quick shot of his face and just 16 words of dialogue. Death prevented his scheduled appearance in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.[14]
DeathBen Turpin died July 1, 1940 of a heart attack[15] and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, following a Requiem Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills.[10] He was eulogized as "a fine member of his church, strong in his faith" by Father J. P. Concannon. His pallbearers included Andy Clyde, Billy Bevan, James Finlayson, and Charlie Murray.[9]
Turpin had been close friends with Andy Clyde and James Finlayson, with Clyde having been the witness at Turpin's second wedding,[4] and Turpin having been one of the witnesses signing Finlayson's petition for naturalization.[16]
Turpin's crossed eyesTurpin and Sennett both appeared as themselves (in Technicolor) in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), a partly fictionalized movie about the silent-film era. This movie contains a sequence in which Turpin reports for work and prepares to go onto the set in character. In the dressing room he picks up a hand mirror and checks his reflection as he deliberately crosses his eyes as extremely as possible. In this sequence, it can be seen that Turpin's left eye was actually normal when he was not performing and that he intentionally crossed it (to match his misaligned right eye) as part of his screen character.
In the film The Comic (1969), Mickey Rooney plays a fictional silent-film comedian named "Cockeye Van Buren", who is genuinely cross-eyed. Although this character does not otherwise resemble Turpin, the handicap given to Rooney's role is clearly inspired by Turpin.[citation needed]Crypt of Ben Turpin, in the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn GlendaleFilmographyYear Title Role Notes1914 Madame Double X Mr. Von Crooks Jr. Short1915 His New Job Film Extra in Anteroom Short, Uncredited1915 A Night Out Fellow Reveller Short, Uncredited1915 The Champion Ringside Vendor Short, Uncredited1915 A Burlesque on Carmen Remendados - The Smuggler episodes by Leo White1917 A Clever Dummy A Romantic Janitor Short1918 Watch Your Neighbor Banana Peel Victim Short1919 Yankee Doodle in Berlin A Prussian Guardsman 1919 Salome vs. Shenandoah Actor Playing New General Short1920 Down on the Farm The Faithful Wife's Husband 1920 Married Life Rodney St. Clair - a Man's Man 1921 A Small Town Idol Sam Smith 1921 Home Talent Stranded Actor 1921 Molly O Minor Role Uncredited1923 The Shriek of Araby Bill Poster - The Sheik 1923 Hollywood Ben Turpin 1925 Hogan's Alley The Stranger 1925 Steel Preferred Bartender 1927 The College Hero The Janitor 1928 The Wife's Relations Rodney St. Clair 1928 A Woman's Way Minor Role Uncredited1929 The Love Parade Cross-Eyed Lackey Uncredited1929 The Show of Shows Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number 1930 A Royal Romance Cossack Guard Uncredited1930 Swing High Bartender 1931 Cracked Nuts Cross-Eyed Ben Uncredited1931 Ambassador Bill The Butcher 1932 Make Me a Star Ben Turpin 1932 Million Dollar Legs Mysterious Man 1932 Hypnotized Himself - Cameo Appearance Uncredited1934 The Law of the Wild Henry 1939 Hollywood Cavalcade Bartender 1940 Saps at Sea Cross-Eyed Plumber (final film role)