King Vidor Articles
Hayao Miyazaki, Gregory Peck, King Vidor, Ingmar Bergman: Packard Campus January 2011
Danny Boyle's Trainspotting stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd It's too bad I'm posting this a little too late, as the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater welcomed the year 2011 with a screening of one of the best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals, The Gay Divorcee (1934). And screening tonight at 7:30 p.m. — there's still [...]
Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Marion Davies, Clara Bow, 'Fatty' Arbuckle on TCM
Clara Bow, known as the "It" Girl, stars in the appropriately titled It Part III of Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood, "The Dream Merchants," narrated by Christopher Plummer, continues today (a rerun of Monday's presentation) on Turner Classic Movies. Accompanying features and shorts focus on 1920s comedies. Charles Chaplin's The Pilgrim is on right now. Following "The Dream Merchants," TCM will show [...]
MGM Files for Bankruptcy; Old, Glorious MGM: Marion Davies, William Haines in SHOW PEOPLE on TCM
Marion Davies in King Vidor's Show People Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM — initially Metro-Goldwyn — was formed through the amalgamation of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions in 1924. Goldwyn, by then no longer associated with Samuel Goldwyn, was the largest production company of the [...]
John Gilbert on TCM: THE BIG PARADE, FLESH AND THE DEVIL
Renée Adorée, John Gilbert in King Vidor's The Big Parade (top); John Gilbert, Greta Garbo in Clarence Brown's Flesh and the Devil (bottom) John Gilbert on TCM: QUEEN CHRISTINA, DOWNSTAIRS Here are my top recommendations for John Gilbert Day (in addition to Queen Christina, mentioned in the previous post): Victor Sjöström's touching, poetic He Who Gets Slapped (1924), which features my favorite Lon Chaney performance [...]