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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Ben-Hur</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/ben-hur/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:07:03 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blamed Catholicism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35616</guid> <description><![CDATA[Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968 Paul Ferguson, in a letter he wrote me at the time I was working on Beyond Paradise, blamed his Catholic background for Ramon Novarro's death: &#34;When [Novarro] kissed me, I reacted like a Catholic, what they call homosexual panic. Some old guy in the desert says, 'Kill homosexuals.' It's inbred. . . . I was too [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rex Ingram: Launched Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:16:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rex Ingram (top); Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, in Ingram's Trifling Women (bottom) St. Patrick's Day always reminds me of silent-era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent-era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, Mare Nostrum, The Magician, and The Garden of Allah, and whose birth &#8212; as Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock &#8212; took place in Dublin on Jan. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Winners Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis, Timothy Hutton: Christmas on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winners-katharine-hepburn-elizabeth-taylor-sandy-dennis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winners-katharine-hepburn-elizabeth-taylor-sandy-dennis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:41:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25825</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Turner Classic Movies' Christmas daytime programming includes George Cukor's 1933 classic Little Women, the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, and the tedious 1959 version of Ben-Hur. William Wyler was a great director, but this multi-Oscared epic pales in comparison to Fred Niblo's more concise, less pretentious, and (mercifully) dialogue-less 1925 version starring Ramon Novarro (who was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winners-katharine-hepburn-elizabeth-taylor-sandy-dennis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Marion Davies, Clara Bow, &#039;Fatty&#039; Arbuckle on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/buster-keaton-harold-lloyd-marion-davies-clara-bow-fatty-arbuckle-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/buster-keaton-harold-lloyd-marion-davies-clara-bow-fatty-arbuckle-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:27:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25558</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clara Bow, known as the &#34;It&#34; Girl, stars in the appropriately titled It Part III of Moguls &#038; Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood, &#34;The Dream Merchants,&#34; narrated by Christopher Plummer, continues today (a rerun of Monday's presentation) on Turner Classic Movies. Accompanying features and shorts focus on 1920s comedies. Charles Chaplin's The Pilgrim is on right now. Following &#34;The Dream Merchants,&#34; TCM will show [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/buster-keaton-harold-lloyd-marion-davies-clara-bow-fatty-arbuckle-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Biography BEYOND PARADISE in Paperback</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:11:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35640</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro, The Cat and the Fiddle Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro is a film star biography I wrote several years ago. The book tells the story of the first Latin American performer to become a major Hollywood star, Ramon Novarro. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, Novarro arrived in Hollywood in 1916, a refugee from the civil wars [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: Behind BEN-HUR on Inflation-Adjusted Chart</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/avatar-box-office-ben-hur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/avatar-box-office-ben-hur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:28:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23575</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar: James Cameron, Sam Worthington on the set Avatar hasn’t been the top grosser at the domestic box office for nearly two months. It was initially dethroned by the Channing Tatum-Amanda Seyfried tearjerker Dear John, followed by Garry Marshall’s all-star Valentine’s Day, the Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Shutter Island, and for the last three weekends Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Avatar is still doing okay [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/avatar-box-office-ben-hur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18015</guid> <description><![CDATA[I first contacted author Allan Ellenberger shortly before the publication of his book on Old Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, as at the time I was working on my own Novarro bio. Instead of treating me like a pesky rival, Allan generously shared the information he'd amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful. We've since become good friends [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Paul Crifo, Lon Chaney&#039;s Great-Grandson at Academy Exhibitions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/paul-crifo-ron-chaney-academy-exhibition/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/paul-crifo-ron-chaney-academy-exhibition/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:36:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16528</guid> <description><![CDATA[Poster artist Paul Crifo poses in front of the In the Heat of the Night poster at the opening of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' new exhibitions &#34;Art of the Movie Poster: Illustrated One-sheets and Design Concepts from the Paul Crifo Archive&#34; and &#34;Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-1936,&#34; on Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Photos: Greg Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/paul-crifo-ron-chaney-academy-exhibition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>STAGECOACH Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/stagecoach-john-wayne-claire-trevor/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/stagecoach-john-wayne-claire-trevor/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:48:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12642</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” Directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor, Stagecoach will be presented on Monday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/stagecoach-john-wayne-claire-trevor/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>National Film Registry</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-registry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-registry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6418</guid> <description><![CDATA[The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) 2) ADAM'S RIB (1949) 3) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) 4) THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) 5) ALIEN (1979) 6) ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) 7) ALL MY BABIES (1953) 8) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 9) ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) 10) ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) 11) ALL THE [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/national-film-registry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Howard Hughes Hollywood: THE AVIATOR, Katharine Hepburn, RKO</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/howard-hughes-hollywood-the-aviator/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/howard-hughes-hollywood-the-aviator/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:39:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/world-cinema/american-cinema-hollywood/aviator-notes-trivia-scorsese-dicaprio/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator Long before Leonardo DiCaprio, Tommy Lee Jones played billionaire Howard Hughes (right) in the 1977 television movie The Amazing Howard Hughes. Jason Robards played the old and haggard Hughes in Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama Melvin and Howard (1980), for which Robards received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor (he lost to Ordinary People's Timothy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/howard-hughes-hollywood-the-aviator/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1925: Fred Niblo&#039;s BEN-HUR, Ernst Lubitsch&#039;s LADY WINDERMERE&#039;S FAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/best-films-of-1925/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/best-films-of-1925/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:25:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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