Paul Crifo, Lon Chaney’s Great-Grandson at Academy Exhibitions
Poster artist Paul Crifo poses in front of the In the Heat of the Night poster at the opening of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences‘ new exhibitions "Art of the Movie Poster: Illustrated One-sheets and Design Concepts from the Paul Crifo Archive" and "Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-1936," on Wednesday, September 16, 2009.
Photos: Greg Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Ron Chaney poses next to great-grandfather Lon Chaney’s original makeup kit.
Ben-Hur items
Paul Crifo
by Joan Lister | September 21, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Ben-Hur, Irving Thalberg, Lon Chaney, Movie Posters, Paul Crifo, Photos, Ron Chaney
Marsha Hunt, Ann Rutherford, Mark Vieira at Irving Thalberg Exhibition
Former MGM contract actress Marsha Hunt, Academy Special Events Programmer Ellen Harrington, and former MGM contract actress (and Gone with the Wind supporting player) Ann Rutherford at the opening of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences‘ new exhibitions "Art of the Movie Poster: Illustrated One-sheets and Design Concepts from the Paul Crifo Archive" and "Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-1936," on Wednesday, September 16, 2009.
Photos: Greg Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Marsha Hunt
Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and the Rise of M-G-M author Mark Vieira
Miscellaneous items from the Irving Thalberg exhibition
by Joan Lister | September 21, 2009
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Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936
The career of legendary production executive Irving Thalberg – Hollywood’s "Boy Wonder" of the 1920s and early 1930s – will be explored in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, "Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936," opening on Thursday, September 17, in the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery in Beverly Hills.
"Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936" is guest curated by historian and Thalberg biographer Mark Vieira, whose Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and the Rise of M-G-M was profiled in the Alternative Film Guide several months ago and whose Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince is due out in early November. Admission is free.
Lon Chaney, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 9, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Hollywood Dreams Made Real, Irving Thalberg, Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, Jean Harlow, Los Angeles Screenings, Louis B. Mayer, Mark Vieira, MGM, Norma Shearer
HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M – Q&A with Mark Vieira
Author and photographer Mark A. Vieira (right), who’s been a friend for a number of years, has recently written no less than two books on Irving G. Thalberg, the young MGM mogul whose high-quality productions earned him both a reputation as Hollywood’s "Boy Wonder" and a special place in Oscar history as the name attached to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Memorial Award given to “creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.” Thalberg even inspired a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, the unfinished The Last Tycoon.
Now, Mark’s two books may cover the same ground in terms of subject matter, but they’re radically different in terms of approach to same:
Hollywood [...]
by Andre Soares | February 12, 2009
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Tags: Books, Clark Gable, Classic Movies, Erich von Stroheim, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Hurrell, Greed, Greta Garbo, Harry N. Abrams, Hollywood Dreams Made Real, Interviews, Irving G. Thalberg Award, Irving Thalberg, Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Mark Vieira, Norma Shearer, Producers, Rasputin and the Empress, The Good Earth, The Last Tycoon, The Merry Widow, University of California Press
