Among the highlights at this year's Cinecon event, to be held in Hollywood from Aug. 31-Sep. 4, are the restored 1926 version of Kiki (Fri., Sep 1, 3:50pm), starring Norma Talmadge — at the time quite possibly the biggest female star in Hollywood — and Ronald Colman; Chicago (1928, Sat., Sep 1, 10:25am), another rare and recently restored film, starring Phyllis Haver as murderess Roxie Hart (more on Chicago here); the ultra-rare Romance of the Underworld (1928, Sat., Sep 2, 10am), with a very young Mary Astor; the Mabel Normand vehicle Head Over Heels (1922, Sun. Sep 3, 11am); and the recently restored The Barker (1928, Mon, Sep 4, 11:25am), directed by George Fitzmaurice, and starring Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson (who was "considered" for a Best Actress Academy Award — there were no official nominations that year), and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Note: Norma Talmadge's sister, Constance Talmadge, can be seen in Up the Road with Sallie (1917, Thu. Aug 31, 9:20pm). The film is unremarkable, but Talmadge's performance is a delight.
Cinecon 42 Schedule:
Thursday August 31
7:00 Flora (cartoon)
7:10 THE SLEEPING CITY (1950) starring Coleen Gray and
Richard Conte
8:35
Q&A w/ Coleen Gray
9:20 UP THE ROAD WITH SALLIE (1917) directed by William Desmond Taylor starring Constance Talmadge and Norma Kerry
10:30 THE CHEAT (1931) starring Tallulah Bankhead
Friday September 1
9:00 The Iron Claw, ch. 6
9:20 OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS (1938) starring John Wayne and Louise Brooks
10:25 CHICAGO (1928) starring Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi
12:20
Lunch Break
2:05 The Star Boarders (1915) Ham and Bud
2:20 NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (1929) starring Richard Dix and Helen Kane
3:50 KIKI (1926) starring Norma Talmadge and Ronald Colman
5:30 STRICTLY IN THE GROOVE (1942) starring Ozzie Nelson
6:30 Dinner Break
8:15 Fair Play (cartoon)
8:20 THIS THING CALLED LOVE (1939) starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas
10:10 Tom Mix fragment
10:15 SELFISH YATES (1917) starring William S. Hart
10:55 GRAFT (1931) with Boris Karloff
Saturday September 2
9:00 business meeting
10:00 ROMANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD (1928) directed by Irving Cummings starring Mary Astor
11:20 ASK A POLICEMAN (1938)
12:40 Lunch Break
2:30 Peculiar Patients' Pranks (1915) starring Harold Lloyd
2:40 RED LIGHTS (1922) starring Raymond Griffith
4:05 Ernie Kovacs color special
4:40 MOONRISE (1948) directed by Frank Borzage starring Dane Clark
6:10 Dinner Break
7:45 Wet and Warmer starring Billie Ritchie
8:05 PHIL-FOR-SHORT (1917) starring Evelyn Greeley
9:30 ONE HYSTERICAL NIGHT (1929) starring Reginald Denny
10:55 THE SHADOW RETURNS (1946) starring Kane Richmond
Sunday September 3
9:00 Vitaphone: The Sound of the '20s
10:50 Hollywood: City of Celluloid
11:00 HEAD OVER HEELS (1922) starring Mabel Normand
12:00 Lunch Break
1:45 Photoplay Magazine #5 (1917)
1:50 BETTY TAKES A HAND (1918) starring Olive Thomas
3:00 THEY CAME TO BLOW UP AMERICA (1943) starring George Sanders and Anna Sten
4:25 THAT KIND OF WOMAN (1959) starring Tab Hunter and Sophia Loren directed by Sidney Lumet
6:00 Q&A w/ Tab Hunter
7:15 COCKTAIL RECEPTION
8:00 BANQUET
Monday September 4
9:00 The Iron Claw, chs. 7 – 9
10:00 LORD JIM (1925) directed by Victor Fleming, starring Percy Marmont
11:25 THE BARKER (1928) starring Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
12:45 Lunch Break
2:10 Pluck of the Irish
2:30 GIRL IN THE PULLMAN (1927) starring Marie Prevost
3:35 START CHEERING (1938) starring Jimmy Durante and Charles Starrett
5:00 BEYOND THE ROCKS (1922) starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino