Irving Thalberg Articles
Frederica Sagor Pt.3: THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Plagiarism
Frederica Sagor Pt.2: Women Screenwriters in 1920s Hollywood [Photo: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh.] Frederica Sagor's reported final Hollywood screen credit was the scenario for the 1928 slapstick comedy The Farmer's Daughter, directed by Arthur Rosson at Fox. Marjorie Beebe, previously featured in several comedy shorts, had the title role (no relation to Loretta Young's 1947 Oscar-winning Congresswoman-to-be). In her book, Sagor [...]
Eva von Berne, 100, Dies – Again. Silent Film Actress Had Been Reported Dead in 1930
John Gilbert, Eva von Berne in Victor Sjöström's The Masks of the Devil Eva von Berne, the Austrian actress brought to Hollywood as a potential Greta Garbo rival and who played the ingénue in the apparently lost John Gilbert-Alma Rubens silent drama The Masks of the Devil (1928) — her sole American movie — has died. Again. Von Berne, according to many sources including the [...]
GREED d: Erich von Stroheim w: Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt – Silent Masterpiece
Greed (1924) Direction: Erich von Stroheim Screenplay: Erich von Stroheim, June Mathis; from Frank Norris' novel McTeague Cast: Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt in Erich von Stroheim's Greed Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece and one of the best silent films ever made, Greed remains a powerful indictment against the deadly sin of the title. [...]
Irving Thalberg Biography: Mark Vieira's Book Signing
"I’m looking forward to being 'onstage' Sunday at the Egyptian. I love talking about Irving, Norma, and Joan." That's author Mark A. Vieira, commenting on Allan Ellenberger's post about his book signing at Larry Edmund's Bookshop and the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Mark's latest book, Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, which has just been published by the University of California Press, [...]