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jacobailey commented about Loew's Crescent Theatre on Jun 18, 2012 at 2:27 am

the connor company was the production company of the sam davis movie. they sent 750 photos taken during production of the movie to the Library of Congress for copyright processing. in 2010 i discovered the library made these prints but only 15 images were saved.

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jacobailey commented about Loew's Crescent Theatre on Jun 18, 2012 at 2:24 am

do you know of a snodgrass theatre that was in 1915 operational in nashville. Sam Davis movie was shown there.are there any of the sudekum family still alive.

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jacobailey commented about Loew's Crescent Theatre on Jun 18, 2012 at 12:39 am

in 1915 a made in Nashville silent era movie in which Hap Sudekum, Lucille Wilson Sudekum and my relative Joshua Brown were in the movie was shown at the Parthenon.Ad appears 6-5-1915 in Nashville paper and 5-30-1915 paper that shows Lucille and Joshua.Believe Lucille was Mrs Harry Sudekum.Hap was Harry and Tony’s brother.

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jacobailey commented about Roxy Theatre on Jun 18, 2012 at 12:16 am

in 1915 a made in Nashville silent era movie entitled “ Sam Davis- A hero of the Sixties” played at the Parthenon theatre on june 5 1915.In part it was filmed at Travellers Rest plantation.Lillian Nicholson Sharon wrote the screenplay.My relative Joshua Brown was in the movie and was an actual Coleman Scout in the civil war.Looking for images from this historic movie.in Nashville paper 05-30-1915 article appears about movie and Hap Sudekum, Lucille Wilson Sudekum and Joshua Brown were shown as cast members. Lucille was wife of Harry Sudekum and Hap was brother of Harry.Talley Bailey