Thomas Meighan, THE LOST SQUADRON at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Via Thomas Gladysz’s article in the Los Angeles Examiner:
The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in the Northern California town of Fremont has been screening silent films and early talkies for quite some time. As Gladysz explains in his article, that area was home to the western studios of the Chicago-based Essanay film company, among whose stars at one point were Gloria Swanson; Charles Chaplin; matinee idol Francis X. Bushman (best remembered for his villain in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur); and company co-owner Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson (the "ay" in Essanay; the "ess" was George K. Spoor), the first cowboy star.
The Niles Essanay Museum’s line-up for the rest of April [...]
by Andre Soares | April 15, 2009
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Tags: Broncho Billy Anderson, Classic Movies, Conrad in Quest of His Youth, Erich von Stroheim, Essanay, Frank Borzage, George Archainbaud, Joel McCrea, Kathlyn Williams, Margaret Loomis, Mary Astor, Mildred Harris, Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Richard Dix, Shorts, Silent Films, The Lost Squadron, Thomas Gladysz, Thomas H. Ince, Thomas Meighan, William C. de Mille, William Desmond Taylor
Best Films – 1920
Though no masterpiece, The Mollycoddle is a surprisingly enjoyable romp starring Douglas Fairbanks as an effete, upper-class nonentity who discovers both his manhood and his red-white-and-blue Americanness before the final fadeout. His leading lady is a minor actress named Ruth Renick, but one barely notices her. The director is Victor Fleming, best known for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, but The Mollycoddle is truly all Fairbanks’.
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The Last of the Mohicans
d: Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown; scr: Robert Dillon
The Mollycoddle
d: Victor Fleming; scr: Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas J. Geraghty
What Happened to Rosa?
d: Victor Schertzinger; scr: Gerald C. Duffy
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by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Bebe Daniels, Best Films, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Conrad in Quest of His Youth, Douglas Fairbanks, George Archainbaud, Lon Chaney, Mabel Normand, Maurice Tourneur, Richard Barthelmess, Silent Films, The Last of the Mohicans, The Mollycoddle, The Wonderful Chance, Thomas Meighan, Victor Fleming, Victor Schertzinger, What Happened to Rosa?