Lupino Lane films - Tom Whiteley's life in full. Survivor of the Titanic. Actor.on stage and film.

In May 1927 he moves to Educational Studios in Hollywood. He stays here for two years to make comedies with Lupino Lane (Stanley Lupino’s brother).

From this studio we have 40 still photos. For seven identifiable films there are 24 photos. For eight unidentified films there are eight stills. There are also seven informal photos; the Fisticuffs cast; Tom Whiteley, Lupino and wife in props area of Fisticuffs; Ronald Coleman, Lupino Lane and Owen Nairs?; Lupino Lane and cast at stage door of the Empire, New York; and three studio portraits of Lupino; Lupino and son; and Lupino, wife and son.

Below are the Fisticuffs cast; and Tom, Lupino and his wife in Props.

FISTICUFFS CAST LUPINO LANE AND WIFE

Just for fun here is the brass plate from Tom's dog's collar.

In May 1929 The Wishing Well opens in Los Angeles. It was originally an Australian show but Tom went to San Francisco in April, as his contract says, ‘to re-stage, refine, re-direct and re-cast etc’ the show. He then staged the show in LA.

At the end of the 1920s Tom decides to re-package himself.

He has written his new CV on the back of a film still.

Thomas Whiteley 5ft 9½ins, 173 lbs

STAGE

Ziegfield Follies Lupino Lane 1924-25

Sky High Willie Howard 1925-26

Naughty Riguette Mitzi 1926

The Passing Show Shuberts 1926

The Nightingale Eleanor Painter 1926-27

The Lupino LaneHollywood Revue 1928-29

FILM

Lupino Lane Comedies Educational Studios 1927-28

Shakespearean, Musical, Dramatic, Comedy and Farce experience.

English Dude

All four British dialects

French and broken French

Soldiers all types

Nautical all types

Sing, Dance

Tom had five studio portraits taken to support the characterisations.

He also acquired signed photos of the leading actors and friends he played with. These include:

Stanley Lupino, Tom W???, Ed Busse, Bert Levy, and Alexander Gray. Plus the three family portraits of

Lupino Lane.

In the 1930s he acquired Edith Clinton, “Billy”, Louise Dusser-Gardner, a framed but unsigned actress photo, Hal Walters, and Max Miller.

Also in the family collection there are dedicated and signed portraits of ‘Desha’ part of a cabaret dancing act; Norman and Constance Selby; Peggy Chamberlin; ‘Gladys; Ted Lewis; Margie Finley; Sophie Tucker; Our Edie (Edith Clinton); Jean Barry (and Fitzgibbon); Barbara Crosby; Heid Young?; Douglas Byng; ‘Prudence’; Tallulah Bankhead; The Boswell Sisters; Abe Lyman (with all the band shown); ‘Phyllis’; Bunt, Helen, and Mario; Canola Gay; Marion Harris; and Teddy Brown.