Best Films – 1923
I must admit that I’m not a fan of Charles Chaplin’s comedies. Heresies aside, I did very much enjoy Chaplin’s dramatic A Woman of Paris, an attempt to turn his frequent leading lady Edna Purviance into a star. The film was a box-office success (despite rumors to the contrary), but Purviance’s career never took off. That is unfortunate, as she gives a moving performance in this tale of lost love and single motherhood. She is with Carl Miller in the photo. Things are obviously not going very well for the couple, but Purviance is surely suffering in style.
FILM
Cameo Kirby
d: John Ford; scr: Robert N. Lee
Scaramouche
d: Rex Ingram; scr: Willis Goldbeck
The White Rose
d, scr: D. W. Griffith
A Woman of Paris
d, scr: Charles Chaplin
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Souls for Sale
d, scr: Rupert Hughes
ACTOR
John Gilbert
Cameo Kirby
Ramon Novarro
Scaramouche
ACTRESS
Renée Adorée
The Eternal Struggle
Eleanor Boardman
Souls for Sale
Mae Marsh
The White Rose
Edna Purviance
A Woman of Paris
Alice Terry
Scaramouche
Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Lon Chaney
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lewis Stone
Scaramouche
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Nita Naldi
The Ten Commandments
Alla Nazimova in Salome
CINEMATOGRAPHY
G. W. Bitzer, Hendrik Sartov, Harold S. Sintzenich
The White Rose
Karl Brown
The Covered Wagon
William H. Daniels, Charles E. Kaufman, Ben F. Reynolds
Merry-Go-Round
George J. Folsey
The Fighting Blade
Bert Glennon, Peverell Marley, Archie Stout, J.F. Westerberg
The Ten Commandments
Tony Kornman, Robert Newhard
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
George Schneiderman
Cameo Kirby
John F. Seitz
Scaramouche
Charles Van Enger
Salome
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