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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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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CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS: Q&A with Author Allan R. Ellenberger
As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger’s Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data — as collected by 1930 census takers — of more than 2,000 "U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures." (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.)
The book, of course, doesn’t offer any saucy insights into the lives of those people. Instead, it’s a straightforward amalgam of un-dramatic — but important — information for researchers. (Though non-researchers may find the myriad listings addictive as well.)
For instance, when I wrote the Ramon Novarro (above right) biography Beyond Paradise, I didn’t have access to the 1930 census, which became part of the public record [...]
by Andre Soares | February 27, 2008
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Tags: Allan Ellenberger, Books, Celebrities in the 1930 Census, Florence Vidor, Interviews, Katharine Hepburn, Marie Dressler, McFarland, Ramon Novarro, Upton Sinclair
