Best Films – 1928

Evelyn Brent, Emil Jannings in The Last Command
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The Crowd
d: King Vidor; scr: King Vidor, James V. A. Weaver; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
The Docks of New York
d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: Jules Furthman; titles: Julian Johnson
The Last Command
d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: John F. Goodrich; titles: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Sadie Thompson
d & scr: Raoul Walsh; titles: C. Gardner Sullivan
Street Angel
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Marion Orth, Philip Klein & Henry Roberts Symonds; titles: H. H. Caldwell & Katherine Hilliker
The Wind
d: Victor Sjöström; scr: Frances Marion
 

L’Argent by Marcel L’Herbier
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L’Argent
d: Marcel L’Herbier; scr: Marcel L’Herbier & Arthur Bernède
The Patsy
d: King Vidor; scr: Agnes Christine Johnson; titles: Ralph Spence
Show People
d: King Vidor; scr: Laurence Stallings & Agnes Christine Johnson; titles: Ralph [...]

Marie Glory

Actress Marie Glory (aka Arlette Genny in the mid-1920s) died at her house in Cannes this past January 24. She was 103.
Though forgotten today, Glory did have an extensive film career — more than 50 motion pictures during the course of nearly four decades, from 1924 to 1960.
Among her most notable films were those she made for innovative director Marcel L’Herbier: the silent classic L’Argent (1928), an adaptation of an Emile Zola novel that is considered by some one of the greatest silent films ever made, and in which Glory co-starred with Brigitte Helm (of Metropolis fame) and Pierre Alcover; L’Herbier’s first talkie, L’Enfant de l’amour (1930), with frequent L’Herbier leading man Jaque Catelain (top photo); and [...]