Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro Articles

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 — as Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock — took place in Dublin [...]

Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram’s Scaramouche Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies‘ Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years of the Mexican Revolution. Tonight, Novarro’s vehicle is Scaramouche (1923), one of his most prestigious critical and box-office hits, and one featuring another revolution, the one in France back in the late 18th century. Directed by [...]

Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, The Red Lily Early Mexican-born screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro is back on Turner Classic Movies this evening with a presentation of Fred Niblo’s silent melodrama The Red Lily (1924). That will be followed by another Ismael Rodríguez effort, Las mujeres de mi general ("The Women of My General"), a 1951 starring Mexican icon Pedro Infante as a rebel general torn between [...]

Norma Shearer, Ramon Novarro, Jean Hersholt in Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Turner Classic Movies‘ Hispanic Heritage Month celebration continues with the showing of one silent film starring Mexican heartthrob Ramon Novarro, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), and the Mexican period drama Mexicanos al grito de guerra (1943), starring Mexican cinema’s superstar Pedro Infante. Deftly directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and [...]