Category: Actor Clown Artists

WRITING AND CLOWN – A UNITY Many of my blog/essays provide video evidence that happens to validate my proposed viewpoints. This blog-essay is about the combination: Writing and Clown. This blog-essay is not a comprehensive approach into that huge combined universe of Writing and Clown. The purpose is to illustrate that Writing and Clown is…

Many Great Clowns NEEDED Writers and Directors. Many of my blog/essays focus on some video evidence that happens to validate my proposed viewpoints. One of those ideas is that great Clowns needed and worked with Writers and Directors who knew very well or truly understood Clown and Comedy. Since early 2024 I have accumulated enough…

Theatre As Religion – essay #31 of 46 – in the book Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare. The book was written in 1996. The manuscript and floppy disk were believed to be lost, but, were found in 2020. The book was intentionally generally not updated. It was edited mainly for grammar and spelling. I invited…

Rose Marie; Mary Tyler Moore; Morey Amsterdam; Dick Van Dyke the quartet within the cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show 98 YEAR OLD CLOWNS AND THE QUARTET SECRET ACCORDING TO CLOWN SECRET BOOK, ETC Here are a few paragraphs about two 98 year old clowns and their involvement in “The Quartet Secret” that I…

Teaching Clown is a wonderful experience. It’s a field in which paradoxes abound. As in Ballet, a great ballet dancer may or may not be an ideal teacher and may or may not be a good choreographer. Many great Ballet teachers were not choreographers. Many wonderful Ballet teachers had limited or short careers as dancers.…

Is a Tomboy a Clown or a Non-Clown Clown – Clara Bow is Such a Creature(s). Clara Bow is a mythological figure synonymous with the beginning of the film industry. She had an extraordinary challenging childhood. But from the moment she began in film at the age of 16 several critics cited that she was…

Ann Miller was a great clown whose forte was not acrobatics, nor mime, nor juggling but her forte was called ‘the triple threat’ i.e. an actor-dancer-singer.  Triple Threat was known initially in the world of American style Musical Theatre. Miller’s personal story is quite incredible. She overcame numerous life obstacles, even as a child. At…

Photo above: Co-stars of the film Chocolat (2016): Actor Omar Sy & Chaplin’s Grandson James Thierree. In this first bit, a short interview of Charles Chaplin for the 1969 re-release of his 1928 film The Circus. In the interview Chaplin mentions his colleague and friend Harry Crocker. Below will be a link with information about…

PHOTO: BARRY HUMPHRIES with Director Ray Lawler who asked Barry to write a sketch for his character he did when the company toured. The first stage performance of Edna Everage was in the Union Theatre’s Revue directed by Lawler As the old saying goes ‘The king is dead, long live the king’. The clown is…