Irene Rich Articles
Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor
Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA's Festival of Preservation you'll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang's unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money). Unlike Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor's similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret [...]
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN – Ronald Colman – d: Ernst Lubitsch
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) Direction: Ernst Lubitsch Screenplay: Julien Josephson; titles: Maude Fulton and Erik Yorke; from Oscar Wilde's play Cast: Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Irene Rich, Edward Martindel Bert Lytell is the nice husband, May McAvoy the jealous wife, Ronald Colman the other man, and Irene Rich (above) the scene stealer in Ernst Lubitsch's delightful film version of Oscar Wilde's play [...]
Best Films – 1925: John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Constance Talmadge, Renée Adorée
Renée Adorée, John Gilbert in King Vidor's The Big Parade Best Films – 1925: Film, Cinematography BEST ACTOR John Gilbert The Big Parade Norma Shearer (sitting), Gwen Lee (left), Betty Morrissey in Monta Bell's Lady of the Night (top); Florence Vidor, Betty Bronson, Adolphe Menjou in Malcolm St. Clair's Are Parents People? (bottom). Photos: Courtesy of Derek Boothroyd. BEST ACTRESS Belle Bennett Stella Dallas [...]