Frances Marion Articles

Marie Dressler Interview: Part I Marie Dressler was very popular in vaudeville at the turn of the 20th century. Did she try to become a silent film star? She was in Tillie’s Punctured Romance with Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand in 1914, but she doesn’t seem to have quite caught on. Why not? As told in the book, Marie was a huge star when Mack [...]

Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover in Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari BEST FILM Broken Blossoms d, scr: D. W. Griffith Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari d: Robert Wiene; scr: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz The Hoodlum d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Frances Marion   CHECK THESE OUT The False Faces d, scr: Irvin Willat The Sentimental Bloke d: [...]