Cedric Gibbons Articles
Oscar Winner THE GREAT ZIEGFELD: American Cinematheque Screening
Luise Rainer as Anna Held, The Great Ziegfeld Best Picture Academy Award winner The Great Ziegfeld (1936) will be screening tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Robert Z. Leonard directed this sumptuous MGM production, starring William Powell as theatrical showman Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Ziegfeld's wife Billie Burke (the good witch Glinda in The Wizard of [...]
THE MERRY WIDOW Review – Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier d: Ernst Lubitsch
THE MERRY WIDOW (1934) Direction: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway Screenplay: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; from Franz Lehár's operetta Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, The Merry Widow The Merry Widow is neither one of Ernst Lubitsch's most discussed nor best-liked films. Film critics and historians generally tend to [...]
A TALE OF TWO CITIES Review – Ronald Colman d: Jack Conway
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935) Direction: Jack Conway Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods, Lucille La Verne, Henry B. Walthall, H. B. Warner, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, Isabel Jewell, Tully Marshall, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Warwick Screenplay: W. P. Lipscomb and S. N. Behrman; from Charles Dickens' novel Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jack Conway's A [...]
Ramon Novarro/Lloyd Wright Home on the Market
Samuel-Novarro House in the Los Feliz Hills Designed by Lloyd Wright (that's Frank Lloyd Wright's son) in the late 1920s for MGM star Ramon Novarro's then personal secretary, Louis Samuel, the unusual residence known as the Samuel-Novarro House is located in the Oaks neighborhood of the Los Feliz Hills, the eastern section of the Hollywood Hills. The Samuel-Novarro House was initially supposed to have been [...]