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Want to know something about movies? Ask me.
- I've met such celebrities as Mrs. Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Leonard Maltin, James Karen, Kenneth Mars, and Dan Kamin. Film historians I have met are Russell Merritt, Bruce Lawton, David Shepard, and Wichita film notable, J.B. Kaufman.
- My special interest is the film period 1888-1935. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) is my favorite film, and I believe that Griffith is the finest director in film history. His Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919) andWay Down East (1920) still amaze and thrill audiences today.
- I have worked as a production assistant in Kansas on My Name is Legend with Duke Kelly, and watched the Long Beach, California filming of Robert Mitchum's Farewell My Lovely (1975). I have just finished working on a project for the Pawnee Plaza Theaters in Wichita for their showing of Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi and have attended all five Keaton Film Festivals in Iola, Kansas. I have spent many hours researching film history.
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