STAGECOACH Screening
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 film will be introduced by John Ford’s grandson, Dan Ford.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the evening will also feature the second and third chapters of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, in addition to the animated short The Film Fan, [...]
by Andre Soares | May 27, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Alexander Toluboff, Ben-Hur, Bert Glennon, Boule de suif, Buster Crabbe, Christian-Jacque, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Donald Meek, Dorothy Spencer, Dudley Nichols, Ernest Haycox, Frank Harling, Gary Cooper, George Bancroft, Guy de Maupassant, John Carradine, John Ford, John Leipold, John Wayne, Leo Shuken, Los Angeles Screenings, Louise Platt, Micheline Presle, Otho Lovering, Richard Hageman, Stage to Lordsburg, Stagecoach, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Wanger, Westerns
Best Films – 1937
Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille
FILM
The Awful Truth
d, scr: Leo McCarey
Camille
d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins
The Hurricane
d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe
Lost Horizon
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Night Must Fall
d: Richard Thorpe; scr: John Van Druten
Les Perles de la couronne / Pearls of the Crown
d: Sacha Guitry, Christian-Jacque; scr: Sacha Guitry
The Prisoner of Zenda
d: John Cromwell; scr: Wells Root, John G. Balderstone, Donald Ogden Stewart
Quality Street
d: George Stevens; scr: Mortimer Offner, Allan Scott
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
d: David Hand; scr: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon and others
A Star Is Born
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Dorothy Parker, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Star Is Born, Alan Campbell, Alan Mowbray, Alfred Newman, Alice Brady, Allan Scott, Anthony Veiller, Arletty, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Brian Aherne, Camille, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Christian-Jacque, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Colin Clive, Conquest, Constance Bennett, Cora Witherspoon, Dame May Whitty, David Hand, David Miller, Dead End, Dmitri Tiomkin, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy Parker, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Dudley Nichols, Eddie Moran, Edward Ward, Eric Hatch, Erich von Stroheim, Ermete Zacconi, Ernest Vajda, Etienne Girardot, Eve Arden, Frances Marion, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Fredric March, George Cukor, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Grand Illusion, Gregg Toland, Gregory La Cava, Greta Garbo, Henry Daniell, Herbert Stothart, History Is Made at Night, Irene Dunne, Jack Jevne, James Hilton, James Whale, James Wong Howe, Janet Gaynor, Jean Gabin, Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Crawford, Joel McCrea, John Barrymore, John Cromwell, John Ford, John G. Balderstone, John Van Druten, Joseph Walker, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Kathleen Harrison, La Grande illusion, Lawrence Hazard, Leo McCarey, Leon Gordon, Les Perles de la couronne, Lillian Hellman, Lost Horizon, Lucille Ball, Luise Rainer, Mannequin, Maria Ouspenskaya, May Robson, Maytime, Merle Tottenham, Monckton Hoffe, Morrie Ryskind, Mortimer Offner, Neil Fitzgerald, Nelson Eddy, Night Must Fall, Noel Langley, Norman Z. McLeod, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Oliver T. Marsh, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Parnell, Pearls of the Crown, Penny Wisdom, Pierre Fresnay, Quality Street, Ray June, Richard Boleslawski, Richard Creedon, Richard Thorpe, Robert Carson, Robert Montgomery, Robert Riskin, Robert Taylor, Robert Z. Leonard, Ronald Colman, Roy Webb, Sacha Guitry, Samson Raphaelson, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stage Door, Sylvia Sidney, Ted Sears, The Awful Truth, The Good Earth, The Great Garrick, The Hurricane, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The Old Mill, The Prisoner of Zenda, Topper, True Confession, Wells Root, Wilfred Jackson, William A. Wellman, William H. Daniels, William Powell, William Wyler, Zoe Akins
Best Films – 1936
Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat
FILM
Follow the Fleet
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor
Fury
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang
Libeled Lady
d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
My Man Godfrey
d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch
Le Roman d’un tricheur / The Story of a Cheat
d, scr: Sacha Guitry
Show Boat
d: James Whale; scr: Oscar Hammerstein II
Theodora Goes Wild
d: Richard Boleslawsky; scr: Sidney Buchman
These Three
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth
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César
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
Club de femmes
d, scr: Jacques Deval
Desire
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young, Samuel Hoffenstein
Dodsworth
d: William [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Day in the Country, A Woman Rebels, Alice Brady, Allan Scott, Anthony Adverse, Archie Mayo, Arthur Treacher, Bartlett Cormack, Basil Rathbone, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Carole Lombard, Catherine Doucet, Cecil B. DeMille, César, Charles Chaplin, Charles Kenyon, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Claude Renoir, Club de femmes, Delmer Daves, Desire, Dodsworth, Dorothy Fields, Double or Nothing, Douglas Dumbrille, Dwight Taylor, Edwin Justus Mayer, Elizabeth Risdon, Eric Hatch, Eugene Pallette, Follow the Fleet, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Fred Jackman, Fritz Lang, Fury, Gale Sondergaard, Gary Cooper, George Cukor, George J. Folsey, George Oppenheimer, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Gregg Toland, Gregory La Cava, H. B. Warner, Harold Lamb, Harold Rosson, Harriet Hilliard, Hattie McDaniel, Herbert Stothart, Howard Emmett Rogers, Howard Lindsay, Irene Dunne, Irving Berlin, Jack Conway, Jacques Deval, James Whale, Jean Arthur, Jean Bourgoin, Jean Renoir, Jerome Kern, John Barrymore, Joseph Kosma, Le Roman d'un tricheur, Leslie Howard, Libeled Lady, Lillian Hellman, Love Before Breakfast, Luise Rainer, Lynn Riggs, Marcel Pagnol, Marguerite Moreno, Mark Sandrich, Maurine Watkins, Melvyn Douglas, Miriam Hopkins, Mischa Auer, Modern Times, Morrie Ryskind, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, My Man Godfrey, Norma Shearer, Oliver T. Marsh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Partie de campagne, Paulette Goddard, Raimu, Ray June, Richard Boleslawsky, Robert de Grasse, Robert Riskin, Romeo and Juliet, Roy Mack, Rudolph Maté, Ruth Chatterton, Sacha Guitry, Samuel Hoffenstein, Show Boat, Sidney Buchman, Sidney Howard, Sol Polito, Spring Byington, Stowaway, Swing Time, Sylvia Sidney, Talbot Jennings, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Garden of Allah, The Great Ziegfeld, The Petrified Forest, The Plainsman, The Prisoner of Shark Island, The Story of a Cheat, Theodora Goes Wild, These Three, Tony Gaudio, W. Howard Greene, Waldemar Young, Walter Huston, William H. Daniels, William Powell, William Wyler
Best Films – 1928
Evelyn Brent, Emil Jannings in The Last Command
FILM
The Crowd
d: King Vidor; scr: King Vidor, James V. A. Weaver; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
The Docks of New York
d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: Jules Furthman; titles: Julian Johnson
The Last Command
d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: John F. Goodrich; titles: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Sadie Thompson
d & scr: Raoul Walsh; titles: C. Gardner Sullivan
Street Angel
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Marion Orth, Philip Klein & Henry Roberts Symonds; titles: H. H. Caldwell & Katherine Hilliker
The Wind
d: Victor Sjöström; scr: Frances Marion
L’Argent by Marcel L’Herbier
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L’Argent
d: Marcel L’Herbier; scr: Marcel L’Herbier & Arthur Bernède
The Patsy
d: King Vidor; scr: Agnes Christine Johnson; titles: Ralph Spence
Show People
d: King Vidor; scr: Laurence Stallings & Agnes Christine Johnson; titles: Ralph [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: A Woman of Affairs, Agnes Christine Johnson, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Brigitte Helm, Carl Hoffman, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Drums of Love, Eleanor Boardman, Emil Jannings, Erich von Stroheim, Forbidden Hours, Frank Borzage, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Harold Rosson, Harry Carey, Janet Gaynor, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, King Vidor, L'Argent, Lars Hanson, Laurence Stallings, Lillian Gish, Marcel L'Herbier, Marion Davies, Olga Baclanova, Phyllis Haver, Pierre Alcover, Ramon Novarro, Raoul Walsh, Sadie Thompson, Sally O'Neil, Show People, Silent Films, Storm over Asia, Street Angel, The Cardboard Lover, The Crowd, The Docks of New York, The Last Command, The Patsy, The Trail of '98, The Wedding March, The Wind, Victor Sjöström
