Charles 'Chic' Sale

Chic Sale was an American vaudeville performer, stage and film actor, and author who specialized in old men and rural characters. He moved with his family to Urbana, Illinois, as a boy and quit school at fifteen. His solo vaudeville act revolved around Lem Putt, a carpenter who built only outhouses, and he also turned up in Shubert Winter Garden shows and the Ziegfeld Follies. Christie Studios brought him to Hollywood in 1920, and His Nibs, his first film, paired him with Colleen Moore. About twenty more followed, nearly all comedies. The main exception was The Perfect Tribute (1935), with Sale as Abraham Lincoln. His Lem Putt material became The Specialist, illustrated by Roy James, and that book found a wide readership, with over a million copies sold. He also wrote The Champion Cornhusker Crashes the Movies. He died in 1936.