BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT at the Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009
Eleanor Boardman, John Gilbert in Bardelys the Magnificent
Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009: Feb. 27
Rudolph Valentino at the Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009
5:15 to 6:45pm
The first ever KANSAS SILENT FILM FESTIVALCINEMA-DINNER
Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center (17th & Jewell) – Washburn University campus
This special Dinner Event will begin with a reception followed by a buffet. Guests will be seated and have dinner in the Thompson Center’s banquet room on the main floor.
Special guest David Shepard – film restoration expert will be speaking about his recent film projects including our main feature for the evening – the previously ‘lost’ BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT. Attendees will receive a special gift before departing for White Concert Hall and the Cinema [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2009
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Tags: Bardelys the Magnificent, Classic Movies, D. W. Griffith, Eleanor Boardman, Film Festivals, John Gilbert, King Vidor, Mont Alto Orchestra, Oliver Hardy, Silent Films, Stan Laurel
Rudolph Valentino at the Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009
Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl
Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009: Feb. 27
Saturday – Feb. 28, 2009
Morning – starts at 9 a.m.
Feature: The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) Mary Pickford (65 min.)
This is the feature film that put little Mary Pickford on the map as a star. She was known before, but this one put her name above the title and fans came to see her pictures after this no matter what the title was. It was also a role that typecast her forever as a child afterwards. Even when she was 33-years old, she was still playing little girls and was known as ‘America’s Sweetheart’. This delightful yet important story is about family and the importance of family. [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Cobra, Film Festivals, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Mont Alto Orchestra, Nita Naldi, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Rudolph Valentino, Silent Films
Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009
The 13th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival (KSFF) will be held on February 27 and 28, 2009, at the White Concert Hall on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, Kansas. Sponsored by Washburn, admission is free.
This year’s KSFF highlight is the American premiere of the restored 1926 swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent, which until recently was thought to be a lost film. Based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman, Bardelys the Magnificent is set in 17th-century France, where a local Don Juan steals female hearts but is unable to conquer the one woman he truly loves. Directed by King Vidor, Bardelys was a major hit for [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2009
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Tags: Bardelys the Magnificent, Classic Movies, Constance Talmadge, David Shepard, Eleanor Boardman, Film Festivals, Her Sister from Paris, John Gilbert, King Vidor, Mont Alto Orchestra, Silent Films
