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		<title>Serial of the Month: Tarzan the Tiger</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/05/04/serial-of-the-month-tarzan-the-tiger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was quite a shock to me growing up with the MGM Tarzan films to learn that Tarzan was not a monosyllabic noble savage, but an articulate and educated English nobleman when I read the first book in sixth grade.  If I had only seen some of the silent films first I wouldn&#8217;t have been [...]

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		<title>Villain of the Month: Glenn Strange</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/05/03/villain-of-the-month-glenn-strange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes hard to imagine, but the craggy faced, six foot five actor Glenn Strange got his start as a musician.  Self taught on the violin and guitar, Strange and his cousin (western character actor Taylor &#8220;Cactus Mack&#8221; McPeters toured the country as members of the radio singing group The Arizona Wranglers.  This eventually [...]

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		<title>Heroine of the Month: Molly Malone</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/05/02/heroine-of-the-month-molly-malone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Golden Stallion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Molly Malone was a late bloomer by Hollywood standards, making her film debute in Pulse of Life (1917) at the age of 29.  She appeared in many comedy shorts like The Bank Clerk (1919), Her Doctor&#8217;s Dilemma (1920) and Court Plaster (1924).  She then moved on to making westerns like Rawhide (1926) and The Man [...]

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		<title>Hero of the Month: Frank Merrill</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/05/01/hero-of-the-month-frank-merrill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tarzan the Mighty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Merrill, the fifth actor to portray Tarzan, was physically the closest to resembling the character as described in Edgar Rice Burroughs&#8217; novels.  A national gymnastic champion from 1916 to 1918, Merrill got his Hollywood start as a stuntman, he doubled Elmo Lincoln in The Adventures of Tarzan (1921).   He then moved into acting, appearing [...]

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		<title>Serial of the Month: Brenda Starr, Reporter</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/04/04/serial-of-the-month-brenda-starr-reporter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brenda Starr Reporter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I highlighted a TV serial about a globe trotting reporter, I thought it would be nice to follow up with a classic serial about another female reporter who gets into all kinds of trouble, only without the globe trotting aspect, Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945).
The serial opens with ace reporter Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury) and [...]

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		<title>Villain of the Month: Joe Devlin</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/04/03/villain-of-the-month-joe-devlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Phantom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Devlin&#8217;s pugnacious features garnered him steady work for almost thirty years.  He started out playing thugs in films like Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and Hell&#8217;s Kitchen (1939), while also playing cops in Gangster&#8217;s Boy (1938) and The Mystery of Mr Wong (1938).
With the advent of WWII, his slight resemblance to Italian dictator Benito [...]

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		<title>Heroine of the Month: Helen Gibson</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/04/02/heroine-of-the-month-helen-gibson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second wife of legend Hoot Gibson, athletic Helen Gibson got her big break in films replacing popular Helen Holmes in, what many consider to be the longest running serial of all time, The Hazards of Helen (1915-1917). Since this was before cliffhangers became the norm and the episodes were all self contained, there are [...]

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		<title>Hero of the Month: Hally Chester</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/04/01/hero-of-the-month-hally-chester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hally Chester had a short career as a teen actor before moving on to a long career as a movie producer under the name Hal E Chester. He started out playing members of gangs in Crime School (1938), Little Tough Guy (1938), Code of the Street (1939), East Side Kids (1940) and Mob Town (1941)
His [...]

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		<title>Serial of the Month: Stop Susan Williams</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/03/04/serial-of-the-month-stop-susan-williams/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/03/04/serial-of-the-month-stop-susan-williams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an irony for me in regards to the third segment of Cliffhangerrs!.  During the original run of the show I thought Stop Susan Williams was the weakest of the three serials, and now years later watching it with a more experienced serial eye, I find that in terms of structure and plot, it [...]

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		<title>Villain of the Month: Jay Michael</title>
		<link>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/03/03/villain-of-the-month-jay-michael/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serialexperience.com/2012/03/03/villain-of-the-month-jay-michael/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Riders of Death Valley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Green Hornet Strikes Again]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t find too much information about Jay Michael.  His only film appearances were in two serials.  In Universal&#8217;s The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1940) he was a racketeer running a shady construction company.  Riders of Death Valley (1941) had Michael playing the cashier at the local bank.


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