Synopsis
Arthur Trimble plays Buster Brown in this Universal comedy.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Language
- English
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Buster Brown
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Buster Nose Dive · Buster701 · 2022-06-19
Wonderful performance by Arthur Ross Trimble as he always was a great early silent movie star. It would be great to try to get as much of his films restored. He was wonderful as Buster Brown and earlier works. I often feel he is overlooked and was not appreciated. I don't understand why he stopped his career in 1929 when the takies came. His contract with Stern comedies should have been bought up by Universal as he was a genuine "Universal Jewel"
★★★★ · "Robert John Trimble Jr" - NOT "Arthur Ross Trimble" - was the boy who played in the Stern Brothers "Buster Brown". come · 1865morpheus1865 · 2024-02-23
The legal name of the boy who played "Buster Brown" in the Stern Brothers comedies was Robert John Trimble Jr. He was born around 1916 in Ohio. From his first roles in films (1922) he was known as "Arthur" Trimble in movie credits. His father "Robert John Trimble Sr" was a wealthy lawyer born in Kentucky. The boys early career in film was financed by a family educational endowment put in place by the boys Grandfather Judge William Wallace Trimble - many decades earlier in the late 1800s. This is well cited in early film media. Census records and marriage records record his legal name as…