Dorothy Janis Articles

The Pagan, Ramon Novarro’s first sound vehicle — with a pre-recorded soundtrack but no dialogue — became one of the biggest hits at the U.S. box office in 1929, and a huge success overseas as well. In this fresh-as-an-ocean-breeze comedy-drama-romance, Novarro, at his most natural, is a half-native young man idling his life away in a tropical paradise in the South Pacific. Things change with [...]