O MIMI SAN – Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris
O Mimi San (1914)
Direction: Charles Miller
Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince (unconfirmed)
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris, Tsuru Aoki
O Mimi San is historically important as Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa’s first film. In it, Hayakawa plays a prince who goes to a retreat after an attempt on his life is made; once there he falls in love with a young woman (Mildred Harris, future wife of Charles Chaplin) but then finds himself torn between love and duty as a leader of his nation. Compounding matters, an arranged marriage (with Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa’s own future wife) awaits him.
Directed by Charles Miller and allegedly written by Thomas H. Ince (a studio head best remembered for his "mysterious" death in 1924), O Mimi San [...]
by James Bazen | October 29, 2009
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Tags: Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Miller, Cinesation 2009, Classic Movies, Film Reviews, Mildred Harris, O Mimi San, Sessue Hayakawa, Silent Films, Thomas H. Ince, Tsuru Aoki
Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies
Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim
In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood).
Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher.
Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series.
Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night. The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June [...]
by Andre Soares | April 21, 2009
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Budd Boeticher, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, David Lean, Federico Fellini, Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, Great Directors, Howard Hawks, Jacques Tourneur, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Steven Spielberg, Victor Fleming, Vincente Minnelli, William Wyler, Woody Allen
UCLA’s Festival of Preservation: Fredric March, Edgar G. Ulmer
Next at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood:
On Wed., April 15, at 7:30 pm: Efraín Gutiérrez’s Run, Tecato, Run (1979), described as a real-life inspired tale that "depicts a junkie’s efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter." Actor-director Gutiérrez is expected to attend the screening.
On Fri., April 17, at 7:30 pm: Lester James Peries‘ Gamperaliya (1964), a "seminal" work in Sri Lankan cinema that has been compared to Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. Gamperaliya tells the story of "a teacher and member of the new rising middle class, who falls in love with the daughter of his village’s leading aristocratic clan. Defensive positions are assumed and the girl’s parents [...]
by Andre Soares | April 14, 2009
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Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Cecil B. DeMille, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Diana Lynn, Edgar G. Ulmer, Efrain Gutierrez, Festival of Preservation, Festival of Preservation 2009, Film Preservation, Fredric March, Gamperaliya, Gay Interest, Lester James Peries, Los Angeles Screenings, Louis Hayward, ONE Archives, Run Tecato Run, Ruthless, The Buccaneer, UCLA, Zachary Scott
Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas
Flicker Alley in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of "Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas," a new DVD release featuring, as per its press release, "five breathtaking films that preserve the romance, grandeur and allure of windjammers sailing open waters, exquisitely photographed in the style of the time."
The following information is from the Flicker Alley release:
The Yankee Clipper (1927), produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian, restored to the most complete version available since the film’s release, is a feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade. The gorgeous production filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 [...]
by Andre Soares | April 11, 2009
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Tags: Around the Horn in a Square Rigger, Blackhawk Films, Cecil B. DeMille, Dennis James, Down to the Sea in Ships, DVDs, Elinor Fair, Eric Beheim, Flicker Alley, Junior Coghlan, Rupert Julian, Seafaring, Ship Ahoy, Silent Films, The Square Rigger, The Yankee Clipper, William Boyd
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 – 1926
Mary Pickford in Sparrows
FILM
Dancing Mothers
d: Herbert Brenon; scr: Forrest Halsey
Don Juan
d: Alan Crosland; scr: Bess Meredyth; titles: Walter Anthony, Maude Fulton
Kid Boots
d: Frank Tuttle; scr: Luther Reed, Tom Gibson; titles: George Marion Jr.
The Scarlet Letter
d: Victor Sjöström (aka Victor Seastrom); scr: Frances Marion
The Show
d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
Sparrows
d: William Beaudine; scr: C. Gardner Sullivan; titles: George Marion Jr.
The Volga Boatman
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
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You Never Know Women
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Benjamin Glazer
Old Ironsides
d: James Cruze; scr: Dorothy Arzner, Harry Carr, Walter Woods; titles: Rupert Hughes
Mare Nostrum
d: Rex Ingram; scr: Willis Goldbeck
Tell It to the Marines
d: George Hill; scr: Richard Schayer; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
ACTOR
John Barrymore
Don Juan
Eddie Cantor
Kid Boots
John Gilbert
The [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Alan Crosland, Alice Terry, Best Films, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, Don Juan, Flesh and the Devil, Florence Vidor, Frances Marion, George Hill, Gertrude Astor, John Barrymore, John Gilbert, Kid Boots, Lillian Gish, Mare Nostrum, Mary Pickford, Renée Adorée, Rex Ingram, Silent Films, Sparrows, Tell It to the Marines, The Scarlet Letter, The Show, The Volga Boatman, Victor Sjöström
Best Films – 1918
FILM
Old Wives for New
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Jeanie Macpherson
ACTOR
Elliott Dexter
Old Wives for New
ACTRESS
Ossi Oswalda
Ich möchte kein Mann sein / I Don’t Want to Be a Man
Mary Pickford
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Theodore Roberts
Old Wives for New
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sylvia Ashton
Old Wives for New
Florence Vidor
Old Wives for New
CINEMATOGRAPHY
G. W. Bitzer
Hearts of the World
Walter Stradling
Stella Maris
Alvin Wyckoff
Old Wives for New
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by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009
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Tags: Best Films, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, Florence Vidor, I Don't Want to Be a Man, Ich mochte kein Mann sein, Jeanie Macpherson, Old Wives for New, Ossi Oswalda, Silent Films, Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts
Best Films – 1915
In The Italian, George Beban plays an Italian immigrant whose dreams of riches in America quickly turn into a never-ending nightmare of poverty and despair.
FILM
The Italian
d: Reginald Barker; scr: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan
Little Pal
d: James Kirkwood; scr: Marshall Neilan
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Carmen
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: William C. de Mille
ACTOR
George Beban
The Italian
Theda Bara in A Fool There Was
ACTRESS
Theda Bara
A Fool There Was
Geraldine Farrar
Carmen
Lillian Gish
Enoch Arden
Mary Pickford
Little Pal
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Clara Williams
The Italian
"Best Films of …" Annual List
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1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
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1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
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1970 [...]
by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009
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Tags: A Fool There Was, Best Films, Carmen, Cecil B. DeMille, Clara Williams, Classic Movies, Enoch Arden, George Beban, Geraldine Farrar, James Kirkwood, Lillian Gish, Marshall Neilan, Mary Pickford, Reginald Barker, Silent Films, The Italian, Theda Bara
Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Mae West, Cecil B. DeMille DVD Sets
Universal (owner of the Paramount films of the studio era) has announced the release of the following box sets:
On April 4, three "Glamour Collection" sets:
The Carole Lombard Glamour Collection:
Man of the World (1931), We’re Not Dressing (1934), Hands Across the Table (1935), The Princess Comes Across (1936), Love Before Breakfast (1936), and True Confession (1937).
The Mae West Glamour Collection:
Night After Night (1932), I’m No Angel (1933), Goin’ to Town (1935), Go West Young Man (1936), and My Little Chickadee (1940, above).
The Marlene Dietrich Glamour Collection:
Morocco (1930), Blonde Venus (1932), The Devil Is a Woman (1935), The Flame of New Orleans (1941), and Golden Earrings (1947).
On May 23:
The Cecil B. DeMille Collection:
The Sign of the [...]
by Andre Soares | January 25, 2006
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Tags: Carole Lombard, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, DVDs, Gary Cooper, Josef von Sternberg, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code Hollywood
