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1902 poster for Gus Hill's stage production of McFadden's Flats. Entertainment entrepreneur Gus Hill staged vaudeville plays based on the comic strip. [16] His version of McFadden's Flats was made into films in 1927 and 1935. The Yellow Kid made an appearance in the Marvel Universe in the Joss Whedon-written Runaways story (volume 2, issue 27 ...
From January to May 1897, Hearst sent Outcault and the Humorist ' s editor Rudolph Block to Europe, a trip Outcault reported on in the paper through a mock Yellow Kid diary and an Around the World with the Yellow Kid strip, which took the place of McFadden's Row of Flats. [1] The Yellow Kid's popularity soon faded, and the last strip appeared ...
McFadden's Flats is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and based on an 1896 play of the same name. [3] [4] [5] Cast.
The Yellow Kid cartoon featured a series called McFadden's Row of Flats in the New York Journal in 1896. Gus Hill's McFadden's Row of Flats opened in London on 22 October 1896. The play was a broad comedy revolving around interactions between Dan McFadden and Sandy McTavish, stereotypes of the witty Irishman and the tight-fisted Scot.
McFadden's Flats may refer to: McFadden's Flats (1927 film), an American silent film; McFadden's Flats (1935 film), an American comedy film
Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil (July 1, 1875 – February 26, 1976) [1][2] was one of the best known American con men of his era. Weil's biographer, W. T. Brannon, wrote of Weil's "uncanny knowledge of human nature". [3][page needed] During the course of his career, Weil is reputed to have stolen more than $8 million. [3]
The G. W. Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the US, The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats, in 1897. A hardcover book, it reprinted material—primarily the October 18, 1896, to January 10, 1897, sequence titled "McFadden's Row of Flats"—from cartoonist Richard F. Outcault 's newspaper comic strip Hogan's ...
Duncan Renaldo. Duncan Renaldo in his trophy room in Goleta, Calif., circa 1973–74. Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950–1956 American TV series The Cisco Kid.