Dolores Costello Articles

William Gargan, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue in Stephen Roberts' The Story of Temple Drake Cinefest 2011, a four-day festival of rare American films, kicked off earlier today in Syracuse, NY. According to organizers, Cinefest features "great films … from the vaults of the world's greatest libraries and obscure specialties we are noted for from private collectors!" [Cinefest 2011 schedule.] Among the highlights at this [...]

Noah's Ark (1928) Direction: Michael Curtiz Screenplay: Anthony Coldeway; from Darryl F. Zanuck's original story Cast: George O'Brien, Dolores Costello, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Malcolm Waite, Paul McAllister     Of all the films from that magical moment when silent movies merged into sound, nothing is as effective as Michael Curtiz's Noah's Ark: it has a romantic story, splashy scenes, and [...]

Turner Classic Movies' series "Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film" kicks off this evening. So what if "Latino" isn't a race? So what if it isn't even an ethnic or a cultural group, but merely a US-made sociopolitical construct? I'd say that what matters here are the films themselves — all Hollywood productions. And hopefully some of the introductions, provided by Robert Osborne and [...]