Thomas Meighan, THE LOST SQUADRON at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Via Thomas Gladysz’s article in the Los Angeles Examiner:
The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in the Northern California town of Fremont has been screening silent films and early talkies for quite some time. As Gladysz explains in his article, that area was home to the western studios of the Chicago-based Essanay film company, among whose stars at one point were Gloria Swanson; Charles Chaplin; matinee idol Francis X. Bushman (best remembered for his villain in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur); and company co-owner Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson (the "ay" in Essanay; the "ess" was George K. Spoor), the first cowboy star.
The Niles Essanay Museum’s line-up for the rest of April [...]
by Andre Soares | April 15, 2009
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: Broncho Billy Anderson, Classic Movies, Conrad in Quest of His Youth, Erich von Stroheim, Essanay, Frank Borzage, George Archainbaud, Joel McCrea, Kathlyn Williams, Margaret Loomis, Mary Astor, Mildred Harris, Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Richard Dix, Shorts, Silent Films, The Lost Squadron, Thomas Gladysz, Thomas H. Ince, Thomas Meighan, William C. de Mille, William Desmond Taylor
Best Films – 1941
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
FILM
Cheers for Miss Bishop
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron
Citizen Kane
d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones
d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna
Dumbo
d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others
The Great Lie
d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
d: Alexander Hall; scr: Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman
The Lady Eve
d, scr: Preston Sturges
The Little Foxes
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Manpower
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Richard Macauley, Jerry Wald
The Sea Wolf
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Robert Rossen
Sara Allgood, Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley
CHECK THESE OUT
La Fille du puisatier / The Well-Digger’s Daughter
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
How Green Was My Valley
d: John Ford; scr: Philip Dunne
Meet John Doe
d: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: A Woman's Face, Alexander Hall, All That Money Can Buy, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, Bernard Herrmann, Best Films, Bette Davis, Blood and Sand, Carl Benton Reid, Charles Dingle, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Constance Bennett, Dumbo, Edmund Goulding, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Ward, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest Haller, Ernest Palmer, Gary Cooper, Greer Garson, Gregg Toland, Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Herman J. Mankiewicz, How Green Was My Valley, Jean Arthur, Jerry Wald, Joan Crawford, John Ford, John Huston, Lillian Hellman, Major Barbara, Manpower, Marie Lohr, Martha Scott, Mary Astor, Michael Curtiz, Norman Krasna, Orson Welles, Patricia Collinge, Peter Lorre, Philip Dunne, Preston Sturges, Raimu, Ray June, Ray Rennahan, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Macaulay, Rita Hayworth, Robert Montgomery, Robert Morley, Robert Planck, Robert Rossen, Seton I. Miller, Simone Simon, Sol Polito, Spring Byington, Sydney Greenstreet, Tay Garnett, Teresa Wright, The Great Lie, The Lady Eve, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Sea Wolf, Thomas Mitchell, Tony Gaudio, Two-Faced Woman, Vivien Leigh, Walter Lang, William Wyler
Best Films – 1934
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
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable in Death Takes a Holiday
CHECK THESE OUT
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: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: Albert Hackett, Alice White, Anna May Wong, Anton Walbrook, Best Films, Broadway Bill, Buster Crabbe, Charles Laughton, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, Constance Bennett, Easy to Love, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch, Etienne Girardot, Fay Wray, Four Frightened People, Frances Goodrich, Frank Capra, Franz Planer, Genevieve Tobin, Ginger Rogers, Gold, Heinz Ruhman, Helen Lowell, Here Comes the Navy, Hide-out, Imitation of Life, James Cagney, Jean Arthur, Jeanette MacDonald, Karl Hartl, Lloyd Bacon, Louise Beavers, Marian Nixon, Mark Sandrich, Mary Astor, Mary Boland, Norma Shearer, Peter Lorre, Philip Dunne, Ramon Novarro, Ray June, Robert Montgomery, Rowland V. Lee, Samson Raphaelson, Sidney Franklin, The Affairs of Cellini, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Gay Divorcee, The Merry Widow, The Most Precious Thing in Life, Viva Villa!, W. S. Van Dyke, Wallace Beery, We're Rich Again
