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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Louis B. Mayer</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/louis-b-mayer/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Rex Ingram: Launched Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:16:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rex Ingram (top); Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, in Ingram's Trifling Women (bottom) St. Patrick's Day always reminds me of silent-era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent-era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, Mare Nostrum, The Magician, and The Garden of Allah, and whose birth &#8212; as Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock &#8212; took place in Dublin on Jan. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MGM Files for Bankruptcy; Old, Glorious MGM: Marion Davies, William Haines in SHOW PEOPLE on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mgm-bankruptcy-marion-davies-william-haines-show-people/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mgm-bankruptcy-marion-davies-william-haines-show-people/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:05:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25454</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; initially Metro-Goldwyn &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mgm-bankruptcy-marion-davies-william-haines-show-people/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>John Gilbert on TCM: QUEEN CHRISTINA, DOWNSTAIRS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-gilbert-queen-christina-downstairs-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-gilbert-queen-christina-downstairs-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:58:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25035</guid> <description><![CDATA[John Gilbert, Greta Garbo in Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christina Just a few days ago I was wondering if Turner Classic Movies would devote a day to the likes of John Gilbert, one of the biggest movie stars of the silent era &#8212; or any era, really. Though mostly forgotten today, Gilbert starred in numerous box-office and critical hits from 1923 to 1928, a relatively brief [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-gilbert-queen-christina-downstairs-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tyrone Power IV: Bisexuality, Cesar Romero Rumors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/tyrone-power-bisexuality-cesar-romero-492/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/tyrone-power-bisexuality-cesar-romero-492/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:49:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19146</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tyrone Power III: Gay Rumors, Errol Flynn So if Tyrone Power was off having gay liaisons while he was at Fox, it was in another part of the world in someone's sub-sub-basement (while he was working 18 hours a day at Fox), because if Darryl Zanuck even had so much of a whiff of it, that would have been itsville. Case in point: William Eythe. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/tyrone-power-bisexuality-cesar-romero-492/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/producers/irving-thalberg-creating-the-hollywood-studio-system/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/producers/irving-thalberg-creating-the-hollywood-studio-system/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:39:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15848</guid> <description><![CDATA[The career of legendary production executive Irving Thalberg – Hollywood's &#34;Boy Wonder&#34; of the 1920s and early 1930s – will be explored in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, &#34;Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936,&#34; opening on Thursday, September 17, in the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery in Beverly Hills. &#34;Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936&#34; is guest [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/producers/irving-thalberg-creating-the-hollywood-studio-system/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M &#8211; Q&amp;A with Mark Vieira</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/irving-thalberg-hollywood-mark-vieira/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/irving-thalberg-hollywood-mark-vieira/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:59:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=7884</guid> <description><![CDATA[Author and photographer Mark A. Vieira (right), who has been a friend for a number of years, has recently written no less than two books on Irving G. Thalberg, the young MGM mogul whose high-quality productions earned him both a reputation as Hollywood's &#34;Boy Wonder&#34; and a special place in Oscar history as the name attached to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/irving-thalberg-hollywood-mark-vieira/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler III: Wallace Beery, Polly Moran Comedies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:39:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18669</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler in Min and Bill Marie Dressler II: Silent Films, Movie Stardom How did Marie Dressler react to her newfound stardom? Marie basked in her success. She had been through enough trials in life &#8212; points when she couldn't get a job &#8212; and so she was more than ready for fame and adoration. I think audiences loved that they could give [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hedy Lamarr II: Arrival in Hollywood</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hedy-lamarr-ii-arrival-in-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hedy-lamarr-ii-arrival-in-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:07:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17255</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hedy Lamarr in Tortilla Flat Hedy Lamarr &#8211; Q&#038;A with Author Patrick Agan: Part I Do you have a favorite Hedy Lamarr film and/or performance? As for a favorite Lamarr performance, I would have to say Tortilla Flat is right up there. Her performance as the Mexican girl, Dolores, was amazing in its simplicity and clarity, and Karl Freund's cinematography brought out an earthiness that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hedy-lamarr-ii-arrival-in-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hedy Lamarr: Q&amp;A with Author Patrick Agan</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/hedy-lamarr-patrick-agan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/hedy-lamarr-patrick-agan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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