Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.
Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.
His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! (1923) is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema.[citation needed] Lloyd did many of these dangerous stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August, 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio. An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, though the glove often did not go by unnoticed).
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro.
An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty and Fairbanks was referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable. His career rapidly declined with the advent of the "talkies".
Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman (spelled "Ulman" by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in his memoirs) in Denver, Colorado, the son of H. Charles Ullman (born September 15, 1833) and Ella Adelaide Marsh (born 1847). He had a half-brother, John Fairbanks, Jr. (born 1873), and a full brother, Robert Payne Ullman (March 13, 1882 – February 22, 1948).
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno /ˈlɛnoʊ/ (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host.
From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time, UTC-5), also on NBC. After The Jay Leno Show was canceled in January 2010 amid a host controversy, Leno returned to host The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 1, 2010.
James "Jay" Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1950. His mother, Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993), a homemaker, was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to the United States at age 11. Leno's father, Angelo (1910–1994), who worked as an insurance salesman, was born in New York to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, and although his high school guidance counselor recommended that he drop out of school, he later obtained a Bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973. Leno's siblings include his late older brother, Patrick, who was a Vietnam veteran and a lawyer.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
Buster Keaton (his lifelong stage name) was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."
Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made."
A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the magazine's survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator.
Harold Lloyd - Hot Water (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) [HD] - Douglas Fairbanks
1924 Bentley Twin Turbo - Jay Leno's Garage
Senators Win World Series
Wonderful London in 1924 & 2014
President Coolidge, 1st Presidential Film (1924)
El Salvador - República de El Salvador 1924
The Navigator (1924) Buster Keaton
DONT YOU DARE! (8.5.14 - Day 1924)
Sherlock Jr 1924 Buster Keaton
Waxworks (1924) - Full movie (Subtitles EN-PT-ES-TUR-GR)
Erik Satie/René Clair: Entr'Acte (1924)
Keithlights: 1924 World Series Game 7
Buenos Aires - 1924
Harold Lloyd - Hot Water (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) [HD] - Douglas Fairbanks
1924 Bentley Twin Turbo - Jay Leno's Garage
Senators Win World Series
Wonderful London in 1924 & 2014
President Coolidge, 1st Presidential Film (1924)
El Salvador - República de El Salvador 1924
The Navigator (1924) Buster Keaton
DONT YOU DARE! (8.5.14 - Day 1924)
Sherlock Jr 1924 Buster Keaton
Waxworks (1924) - Full movie (Subtitles EN-PT-ES-TUR-GR)
Erik Satie/René Clair: Entr'Acte (1924)
Keithlights: 1924 World Series Game 7
Buenos Aires - 1924
Running with Harold Abrahams (1924)
Supercharched Grand Prix Cars 1924-1939 (full version)
Uruguay Campeón del Mundo 1924, 1928, 1930 y 1950
(1924) Fritz Lang - 'Die Nibelungen: Siegfried'
Аэлита (1924)
Mikael, C. Th. Dreyer - 1924 -
How Olympians Have Changed (1924-2014)
Starting a 1924 Wallis Tractor
Special Feature Debut: The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Arkansas Travelers (Sam Lanin Orchestra) - Any Way The Wind Blows (My Sweetie Goes) 1924
Art Payne & His Orchestra - Oh Maud (1924)
George Olsen He's The Hottest Man In Town
La Bella Cubana ( Edison recording 1924)
Roaring Twenties: Arcadia Peacock Orchestra of Saint Louis - Spring Has Come, 1924
Varsity Eight California Ramblers Adrian Rollini - Doodle-Doo-Doo - Roaring 20's.MP4
Abe Lyman's California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra - Any Way The Wind Blows (1924)
Abe Lyman's California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra - Coconut Trot (1924)
Abe Lyman's Orchestra - Mandalay (1924)
Al Goodman - My Dream Girl (1954)
Al Jolson - All Alone (1924)
Al Jolson - I Wonder What's Become Of Sally (1924)
Arcadian Serenaders - Bobbed Hair Bobbie (Bobbie Be Mine) 1924
Art Landry and his Call of the North Orchestra - What Could Be Sweeter Than You (1924)
Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - Lady Be Good (1924)
Benson Orchestra of Chicago - Copenhagen (1924)
Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - When Lights Are Low (1924)
California Ramblers - Copenhagen
Carl Fenton's Orchestra - No, No, Nanette Medley
Cliff Edwards - California Here I Come (1924)
Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Prince Of Wails - Puritan 11367 (HD)
Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, Louis Armstrong - Mandy Make Up Your Mind (1924)
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - Down Home Blues (1924)
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra - Alabamy Bound (1925)
Big Bad Bill (1924) Margaret Young
Al Jolson & Isham Jones: "California, Here I Come"
Billy Murray sings - Charley My Boy - Victor II Talking Machine 1924
Aileen Stanley - Everybody Loves My Baby (1924)
Carl Fenton Orch.- "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924)
Fred Astaire / George Gershwin - Lady,Be Good
Edith Wilson - How Come You Do Me Like You Do (1924)
"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones, 1924)
Edith Day - Indian Love Call (1924)
Isham Jones & his Orchestra - It Had to Be You (1924)
Al Jolson - Lazy (1924)
Isham Jones and his Orchestra - Nobody's Sweetheart (1924)
Fascinating Rhythm - Green Bros. Novelty Band - Edison Record 1925
Al Jolson - The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else (1924)
Vernon Dalhart -The Prisoner's Song (1925)
Cliff Edwards - Somebody Loves Me (1924)
Bix Beiderbecke & The Wolverines - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street