Tuesday, May 09, 2006

To anonymous


I looked up the movie "Zenobia" and it was released in 1939 and in all probability the elephant used was one of these from Louie Goebel's Animal Farm in 1,000 Oaks.

Posted by Buckles at 5/09/2006 05:40:00 PM

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw the movie Zenobia too.
It takes place before the Civil War.
Its stars the fat guy from Laurel &Hardy,but the skinny guy isnt in it.
He is a doctor who unties a knot from a elephant's tail,and then the grateful elephant doesnt want to leave him.Its pretty funny.

09 May, 2006 17:54
Anonymous said...

“That's another fine mess you've gotten me into”.

09 May, 2006 17:55
Anonymous said...

Oliver Hardy and Harry Langdon (instead of Stan Laurel)

09 May, 2006 18:29
Buckles said...

Unfortunately "Zenobia" was past my bed time however I did see "King Fish and the Knights of the Mystic Sea".
Maybe it will come on again.

10 May, 2006 06:44
24-HOUR-MAN said...

I have Zenobia on tape if I can find it, I have it on a tape I call bits & pieces, and includes all of the Laurel & Hardy dance routines. Buckles, have you seen their "Music Box"?

10 May, 2006 08:10
Buckles said...

I have a habit of comparing all their works to "Sons of the Desert".

10 May, 2006 08:20
Anonymous said...

I am probably the only one on this blog that actually knew Stan Laurel. I used to visit him and his wife Ida in the late 50s in their apartment in Santa Monica. Stan was in ill health and pretty much spent his days watching television. Often we would watch his old films and he'd make comments like "look at that silly man" meaning himself. He was quite bitter that he was all but forgotten and he often mentioned the people to whom he gave money that was never paid back. Oliver Hardy gave away most of his money to show people in need.

10 May, 2006 10:16
Buckles said...

George,
In 1978 Dick Van Dyke was the host of the Ringling TV Special and I heard him remark that Stan Laurel had always been his idol.
He added that when he first got to Hollywood, on a hunch, he simply looked thru the phone book and there under the L's was Stan Laurel. He dialed the number and was immediately floored when he heard that unmistakable voice say "Hello".
After regaining his wits he introduced himself and asked if he could pay a visit and he spent an afternoon with Mr. Laurel and like you say he was a very gracious person.

10 May, 2006 12:22
Anonymous said...

Sally and Queenie died in a hay barn fire at the Goebel's animal farm in July 1940.
Bonnie the elephant survived
but she later died in a truck fire in California on the way to the Cennential Fair in Salt Lake City in 1947.
Reportly these elephants appeared in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan films also in One Million B.C(1940)
dressed up as Wooly Mammoths.

11 May, 2006 15:19
GaryHill said...

Who was the elephant man in most of the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weismuller (The Real Tarzan) ? Especilly the Tarzan's New York Adventure with the Circus?/?

11 May, 2006 15:30
Anonymous said...

A weel known elephant that appeared in the Johhny Weismuller Tarzan movies was"Lizzie",
she was a beautiful elephant.She was one of the Ringling elephants that died after eating posoinous grass in Atlanta Georgia in 1941.

11 May, 2006 17:17
Anonymous said...

Zenobia is available on DVD.
No elephant buff should be without a copy.

11 May, 2006 17:18
Anonymous said...

I forgotten to mention that before going to Goebel's farm.
Sally and Queenie were with the Al G Barnes herd.
You can see them in the 1935 movie
O'SHAUGNESSY'S BOY.
That movie starred Wallace Berry,who reportly had been an elephant trainer years before
9although it would seem obvious he wasnt a fan of the Hagenbeck method of training elephants)
That movie also shows up time to time on TCM,but why waste time,rent it!!

11 May, 2006 17:24
Buckles said...

The Al G. Barnes elephants appeared in many Tarzan movies since they winered in Calif. most notable was "Ruth".
"Lizzie" was one of Cheerful Gardner's favorites and another great one but unlikely she was in any Tarzan movies.

Lizzie

1900 Imported by Walter L. Main
1901-04 Walter L. Main Circus
1905-12 Campbell Bros. Circus
1913-14 Wm. P. Hall Animal Farm
1915 Barton & Bailey Circus
1916 Wheeler Bros. Circus
1917-18 R.T. Richards Circus
1919 Wm P. Hall Animal Farm
1920-21 Howes Gt. London Circus
1922 Gollmar Bros. Circus
1923-24 John Robinson Circus
1925-38 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1939-41 Ringling-Barnum Circus
(Died 11/5/41 in Atlanta poisoning)

11 May, 2006 17:56
Anonymous said...

The foot pads look good don't they?

11 May, 2006 19:38

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