MOVIE POSTER BILLY DOOLEY IN WHEN HERE MEETS HEREAFTER CHRISTIE COMEDY STAR 1927

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Billy Dooley was an eccentric dancer and trick cyclist who had been touring in vaudeville with Frances Lee when they were both hired by Al Christie in the mid-twenties to appear in comedies. Most of his Christie comedies appear to be extant, usually in the truncated home-movie and television versions put out by Hollywood Film Enterprises in the 1940's and 50's. When Christie let his silent comics go in 1929, Dooley continued to work in supporting roles in talkies until he died. Interesting later parts include playing Jean Harlow's goofy reappearing-when-she-doesn;t-want-to-know-him husband in BOMBSHELL (1933) and a nice comedy bit in SIX DAY BICYCLE RIDER (1934) with Joe E. Brown.