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		<title>THE MERRY WIDOW d: Ernst Lubitsch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Merry Widow (1934)
Direction: Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; from Franz Lehár&#8217;s operetta
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway
&#160;


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The Merry Widow is not one of Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s most discussed films. Critics generally tend to focus on his early Paramount talkies, such as One Hour with You (co-directed by George Cukor) and Trouble in Paradise, and his later comedies Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be.
Yet, The Merry Widow is a superior musical, boasting sumptuous sets (production design by Cedric Gibbons), exquisite cinematography (courtesy of Oliver T. Marsh), a magnificently staged ballroom-dancing sequence, witty lines and situations (by Lubitsch collaborators Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from Franz Lehár&#8217;s operetta), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 1937</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille
FILM
The Awful Truth
d, scr: Leo McCarey
Camille
d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins
The Hurricane
d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe
Lost Horizon
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Night Must Fall
d: Richard Thorpe; scr: John Van Druten
Les Perles de la couronne / Pearls of the Crown
d: Sacha Guitry,  Christian-Jacque; scr: Sacha Guitry
The Prisoner of Zenda
d: John Cromwell; scr: Wells Root, John G. Balderstone, Donald Ogden Stewart
Quality Street
d: George Stevens; scr: Mortimer Offner, Allan Scott
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 d: David Hand; scr: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon and others
A Star Is Born
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Dorothy Parker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 1934</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
FILM
The Barretts of Wimpole Street 
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart
The Count of Monte Cristo 
d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee
The Gay Divorcee 
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman
Hide-out 
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
The Merry Widow
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda
&#160;

Fredric March, Evelyn Venable in Death Takes a Holiday
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Broadway Bill
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Death Takes a Holiday
d: Mitchell Leisen; scr: Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman
Gold
d: Karl Hartl; scr: Rolf E. Vanloo
Here Comes the Navy
d: Lloyd Bacon; scr: Earl Baldwin, Ben Markson
Maskerade / Masquerade in Vienna
d: Willi Forst; scr: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 1929</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1929/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Alexandra Schmidt in Mother Krause&#8217;s Journey to Happiness
FILM
Eternal Love
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans Kräly, Claudine West
The Love Parade
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton
Lucky Star
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Sonya Levien; dialogue:  John Hunter Booth; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker
Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück / Mother Krause&#8217;s Journey to Happiness
d: Piel Jutzi; scr: Willy Döll, Jan Fethke
On With the Show
d: Alan Crosland; scr: Robert Lord
The Pagan
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Dorothy Farnum; titles: John Howard Lawson
The River
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Philip Klein, Dwight Cummings
The Thirteenth Chair
d: Tod Browning; scr: Elliott  Clawson
&#160;
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The Divine Lady
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Forrest Halsey, Agnes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rouben Mamoulian Retrospective at Film Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;Mamoulian,&#34; a complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987), one of cinema&#8217;s greatest stylists and innovators, will run at the Film Forum from Friday, September 7 through Tuesday, September 18.
As per the Film Forum&#8217;s press release, Mamoulian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to an Armenian family. He worked at the Moscow Art Theater while attending university, and, following a chance meeting with industrialist/philanthropist George Eastman (founder of the Kodak film company) he moved to Rochester, New York, to direct plays. 
Shortly thereafter he was on Broadway, directing Dorothy and Dubose Heyward&#8217;s Porgy, which became the basis for George Gershwin&#8217;s Porgy and Bess, a musical that Mamoulian would also direct. [See Porgy and Bess screening in New York.] 
That initial [...]]]></description>
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