Michael Mortilla Articles

Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, 7th Heaven Frank Borzage's 7th Heaven, starring late '20s lovebirds Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, was the 1927 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner and will thus be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Summer of Silents” series on Monday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The 7th [...]

Colleen Moore in Alfred E. Green's Ella Cinders (top); Mabel Normand (bottom) The Silent Society of Hollywood Heritage will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in the company of silent-era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Colleen Moore, Viola Dana, and Mabel Normand. Never heard of them? Never seen them? Well, that's your loss. A loss that can be rectified on Saturday, April 2, at the Hollywood [...]

Future Academy Award-nominated MGM director Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld, Pride and Prejudice) as the Scarecrow, future star Bebe Daniels (The Maltese Falcon, 42n Street) as Dorothy in Otis Turner's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a program of shorts in “A Century Ago: The Films of 1910” on Monday, November 8, at 7:30 [...]

Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Beggars of Life William Wellman's 1928 silent classic Beggars of Life, starring Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, and Louise Brooks, will be screened at the 23rd edition of The Hollywood Heritage's "Silents Under the Stars" at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, northwest of Los Angeles. Michael Mortilla will provide live musical accompaniment. Though hardly a masterpiece, [...]