Gloria Swanson Articles

Evelyn Brent, Emil Jannings in The Last Command FILM The Crowd d: King Vidor; scr: King Vidor, James V. A. Weaver; titles: Joseph W. Farnham The Docks of New York d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: Jules Furthman; titles: Julian Johnson The Last Command d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: John F. Goodrich; titles: Herman J. Mankiewicz Sadie Thompson d & scr: Raoul Walsh; titles: C. Gardner [...]

The News/Polskie Radio reports that an early (and thus far unnamed) Pola Negri vehicle has been discovered at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia by the husband-and-wife team of Marek and Malgorzata Hendrykowski from Poznan University. Dating from the 1910s, the Polish production is a detective story set in Warsaw. The print has Italian subtitles and is said to be in good condition. Born (Barbara) Apolonia [...]

Allan R. Ellenberger’s meticulously researched The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol (McFarland & Company) describes in great detail the circumstances surrounding Rudolph Valentino’s death in 1926. The star of the blockbusters The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik was only 31 years old. Allan — I’ve known him for quite some time — also discusses the aftermath [...]

Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe in La Ronde FILM All About Eve d, scr: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Annie Get Your Gun d: George Sidney; scr: Sidney Sheldon Caged d: John Cromwell; scr: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld Harvey d: Henry Koster; scr: Mary C. Chase, Oscar Brodney King Solomon’s Mines d: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton; scr: Helen Deutsch Madeleine d: David Lean; scr: Stanley Haynes, Nicholas Phipps [...]