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 [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: A Woman of Affairs, Agnes Christine Johnson, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Brigitte Helm, Carl Hoffman, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Drums of Love, Eleanor Boardman, Emil Jannings, Erich von Stroheim, Forbidden Hours, Frank Borzage, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Harold Rosson, Harry Carey, Janet Gaynor, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, King Vidor, L'Argent, Lars Hanson, Laurence Stallings, Lillian Gish, Marcel L'Herbier, Marion Davies, Olga Baclanova, Phyllis Haver, Pierre Alcover, Ramon Novarro, Raoul Walsh, Sadie Thompson, Sally O'Neil, Show People, Silent Films, Storm over Asia, Street Angel, The Cardboard Lover, The Crowd, The Docks of New York, The Last Command, The Patsy, The Trail of '98, The Wedding March, The Wind, Victor Sjöström
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 [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Jaque Catelain, L'Argent, L'Enfant de l'amour, Marcel L'Herbier, Marie Glory, Monte Cristo, Silent Films, Terra di fuoco
