and her Curtiss Hydroplane screenshot from Goofy Movies Number Three |
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Hello,via email from Marcus Brooks, 6-27-11 I came across your Florence Seidell page after seeing her name on the side of a seaplane in a short feature on Turner Classic Movies. The short was a one-reeler called _Goofy Movies Number Three_: one of an MGM series that features old silent footage re-edited and voiced over with snide commentary by Pete Smith. In this case the footage seems to include film from 1914's _The Mistress of the Air_, with several good views of Mrs. Seidell and her seaplane (which looks like a rather fancy V-8 powered Curtiss). One scene shows what looks like Seidell's plane in the water (although the actual crash footage is of a very different plane). This might be from the near-fatal incident mentioned on your site. I've attached a couple of screen shot examples. These are almost certainly of Mrs. Seidell. If I'm correct about the original movie, the actor shown is Jack Conway. |
and her Curtiss Hydroplane screenshots from Goofy Movies Number Three contributed by Marcus Brooks, 6-27-11 |
To support my conclusions about the original film's title and the actor's ID, I confirmed that the film's other
actor appears in 1955's _East of Eden_ in the role attributed to Richard Garrick by IMDB. Mrs. Seidell's ID is
apparent because she pilots the plane with her name on it. Cheers, Marcus |
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