Burlesque on Carmen

...didn't 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 Ben Turpin to pad the picture into a...

In this article: Ben Turpin, Charlie Chaplin, Essanay Studios, Mack Sennett, Saps at Sea, Mickey Rooney, Banana, and Mr. Flip

Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen was Chaplin's 13th film for Essanay Films. It was released in 1915 and then later recut into a different version in 1916. Charlie Chaplin played Darn Hosiery and Edna Purviance played Carmen . Carmen...

In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Carmen, Edna Purviance, and Theda Bara

Carmen up to Data is a musical burlesque with a score written by Meyer Lutz. The piece was a spoof of Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The libretto was written by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt. After a tryout in Liverpool in September 1890, the...

In this article: Carmen, John Hollingshead, Carmen up to Data, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz, Fred Leslie, London, Ruy Blas and the Blase Roue, and Cinder Ellen up too Late

Robert Reece (2 May 1838-8 July 1891) was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era. He wrote many successful musical burlesques , comic operas, farces and adaptations from the French, including the...

In this article: Robert Reece, Frederic Clay, Henry Brougham Farnie, Les cloches de Corneville, Agamemnon, London, Prometheus, Cassandra, and Aladdin

This article is about the former theatre in London, named, for a time, the Charing Cross Theatre. For the nearby music hall of the same name see Charing Cross Music Hall. The Folly Theatre was a London theatre of the late 19th century, in...

In this article: John Lawrence Toole, Robert Reece, Lydia Thompson, London, Charing Cross Hospital, Herman Charles Merivale, H. J. Byron, and W. S. Gilbert

right Florence St. John (8 March 1855 - 30 January 1912), was an English singer and actress of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras famous for her roles in operetta, musical burlesque , music hall, opera and, later, comic plays. St. John...

In this article: Alfred St. John, Florence St. John, London, Madame Favart, Mirette, Marie Tempest, and Jacques Offenbach