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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Norma Shearer</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/norma-shearer/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>Frederica Sagor Pt.2: Women Screenwriters in 1920s Hollywood</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-obit-woman-screenwriters-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-obit-woman-screenwriters-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:03:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36488</guid> <description><![CDATA[Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Dead at 111: Wrote Movies for Norma Shearer (photo), Clara Bow, Louise Brooks Now, whether Frederica Sagor's Hollywood Babylon-like tales bear any resemblance to what actually happened at studio parties and private soirees, I can't tell. But on the professional side, one problem with the information found in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is that studios invariably used numerous writers, whether male or [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/frederica-sagor-maas-obit-woman-screenwriters-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ROYAL WEDDING, Ramon Novarro, Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Grace Kelly on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/royal-wedding-ramon-novarro-audrey-hepburn-gregory-peck-grace-kelly/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/royal-wedding-ramon-novarro-audrey-hepburn-gregory-peck-grace-kelly/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:09:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26944</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg As a William &#38; Kate tie-in, Turner Classic Movies is showing several royal weddings, romances, escapades, and heartbreaks this evening. Stanley Donen's Royal Wedding (1951), starring Jane Powell, Fred Astaire, and Peter Lawford, is just about over. The best thing about the film is Fred Astaire dancing on walls and ceilings, a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/royal-wedding-ramon-novarro-audrey-hepburn-gregory-peck-grace-kelly/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Cukor&#039;s Oscar-Nominated Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:11:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16760</guid> <description><![CDATA[George Cukor 21 Acting Nominations (s) supporting category (*) Academy Award winner George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors &#160; James Stewart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story 1930-31 Fredric March, The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner) &#160; 1936 Norma Shearer, Romeo and Juliet Basil Rathbone (s), Romeo and Juliet &#160; 1937 Greta Garbo, Camille &#160; 1940 * James Stewart, The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer&#039;s THE STUDENT PRINCE, Pedro Infante&#039;s MEXICANOS AL GRITO DE GUERRA on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-student-prince-pedro-infante-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-student-prince-pedro-infante-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:23:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25151</guid> <description><![CDATA[Norma Shearer, Ramon Novarro, Jean Hersholt in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Turner Classic Movies' Hispanic Heritage Month celebration continues with the showing of one silent film starring Mexican heartthrob Ramon Novarro, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), and the Mexican period drama Mexicanos al grito de guerra (1943), starring Mexican cinema's superstar Pedro Infante. Deftly directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-student-prince-pedro-infante-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norma Shearer&#039;s RIPTIDE, Katharine Hepburn&#039;s SONG OF LOVE, John Ford, Cary Grant: Warner Archives</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-riptide-katharine-hepburn-song-of-love-john-ford-cary-grant/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-riptide-katharine-hepburn-song-of-love-john-ford-cary-grant/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25039</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; The Norma Shearer-Robert Montgomery-Herbert Marshall melodrama Riptide (1934); a remastered version of None But the Lonely Heart (1944), which earned Cary Grant his second and last Best Actor Academy Award nomination and veteran stage player Ethel Barrymore her only Oscar; and the biopic Song of Love (1947), starring Katharine Hepburn (as Clara Wieck), Paul Henreid (as Robert Schumann), and Robert Walker (as Johannes Brahms) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-riptide-katharine-hepburn-song-of-love-john-ford-cary-grant/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norma Shearer TCM Schedule: MARIE ANTOINETTE, ROMEO AND JULIET, THE DIVORCEE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-marie-antoinette-romeo-and-juliet-the-divorcee/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-marie-antoinette-romeo-and-juliet-the-divorcee/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:19:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24961</guid> <description><![CDATA[Norma Shearer, Marie Antoinette Norma Shearer on TCM Schedule and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Lady of the Night (1924) In this silent film, a young man must choose between a woman from the streets and a refined woman, both of whom are in love with him. Cast: Norma Shearer, Malcolm McGregor, George K. Arthur. Dir: Monta Bell. BW-61 mins. 4:15 AM Lady [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-marie-antoinette-romeo-and-juliet-the-divorcee/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norma Shearer on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:18:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24960</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (top); Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, second husband Martin Arrouge (bottom) Norma Shearer may not be a household name today, but back in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s all the way to the early 1940s, Shearer's star shone brighter than most. Turner Classic Movies is dedicating Thursday, Aug. 12, to the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>&quot;Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine&quot; USC Exhibition</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/inside-the-hollywood-fan-magazine-usc-exhibition/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/inside-the-hollywood-fan-magazine-usc-exhibition/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:25:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24103</guid> <description><![CDATA[The exhibition &#34;Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers&#34; will be held from April 29 to July 30 at USC's Doheny Memorial Library’s David L. Wolper Center south of downtown Los Angeles. According to the USC Libraries' press release, &#34;on display will be hundreds of fan magazines and motion picture memorabilia dating back to the early years of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/inside-the-hollywood-fan-magazine-usc-exhibition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG &#8211; Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer d: Ernst Lubitsch</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/the-student-prince-ramon-novarro-norma-shearer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/the-student-prince-ramon-novarro-norma-shearer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:20:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23895</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg / Old Heidelberg (1927) Direction: Ernst Lubitsch Screenplay: Hans Kräly; titles by Ruth Cummings and Marian Ainslee; from Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly's operetta The Student Prince, based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's novel Karl Heinrich and play Old Heidelberg Cast: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Philippe de Lacy, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edgar Norton, Bobby Mack, Edward Connelly &#160; Ramon [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/the-student-prince-ramon-novarro-norma-shearer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean Arthur, Anne Baxter, Lilli Palmer, Eleanor Parker: Forgotten Actresses Montage</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jean-arthur-anne-baxter-lilli-palmer-776/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jean-arthur-anne-baxter-lilli-palmer-776/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:22:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20231</guid> <description><![CDATA[What better way to start the New Year than by remembering the past? No, not war and assorted catastrophes, but beauty and romance. The clip above features a montage of about two dozen actresses from the studio era. See how many you can recognize. Here's some assistance: Anne Baxter, Anne Shirley, Claire Bloom, Constance Bennett, Eleanor Parker, Frances Dee, Gail Russell, Janet Gaynor, Jean Arthur, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jean-arthur-anne-baxter-lilli-palmer-776/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>10</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tyrone Power VI: Lana Turner, Sonja Henie, Janet Gaynor</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/tyrone-power-lana-turner-sonja-henie-884/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/tyrone-power-lana-turner-sonja-henie-884/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:56:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19148</guid> <description><![CDATA[Annabella, Tyrone Power, Annabella's daughter Anne, whom Power adopted Tyrone Power V: Sexual Orientation Rumors Janet Gaynor, Sonja Henie, Norma Shearer, Lana Turner &#8212; were those romances for real, or were they (or some of them) just publicity stunts? What were his marriages to actresses Annabella and Linda Christian (right) like? Tyrone Power told Sonja Henie, when he wrote to her while she was out [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/tyrone-power-lana-turner-sonja-henie-884/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tyrone Power II: Hollywood Career</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/tyrone-power-hollywood-career-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/tyrone-power-hollywood-career-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:40:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19142</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tyrone Power, Norma Shearer Tyrone Power I: Q&#038;A with Maria Ciaccia Tyrone Power was a Fox contract player for nearly two decades. Were there any roles he wanted to get &#8212; whether at the studio or elsewhere &#8212; but that went to someone else? Any projects he wanted Darryl F. Zanuck to pursue, but that never came to fruition? You name it, he lost out [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/tyrone-power-hollywood-career-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/norma-shearer-neurotic-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/norma-shearer-neurotic-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18912</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right) Mike LaSalle on Norma Shearer: &#34;Shearer was at her best in the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/norma-shearer-neurotic-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</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>Clark Gable on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/clark-gable-on-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/clark-gable-on-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:03:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15070</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clark Gable has his &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Wednesday, Aug. 12. Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen of the actor's films, all of which have been shown before. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure what a rare Clark Gable movie would be, unless one includes the pre-1931 films in which Gable was an extra. Else, I believe that just about [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/clark-gable-on-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L'Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1936</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat FILM Follow the Fleet d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor Fury d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang Libeled Lady d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch Le Roman [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1934</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1934/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1934/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:57:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4329</guid> <description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1934/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1930</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1930/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1930/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:38:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4323</guid> <description><![CDATA[Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I've seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone's rendition of Erich Maria Remarque's pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1930/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1927</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1927/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1927/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:32:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10047</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg FILM Breakfast at Sunrise d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger The Enemy d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings The Unknown d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1927/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</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>Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable: GRAND HOTEL Premiere</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grand-hotel-premiere-shearer-crawford/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grand-hotel-premiere-shearer-crawford/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:35:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4104</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Among those in attendance at the 1932 premiere of Grand Hotel were the film's director, Edmund Goulding, Lew Ayres and Lola Lane, Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe (married, though both were into same-sex liaisons), the recently deceased Anita Page, Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Jean Hersholt, William Haines, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Joan Crawford, and Constance Bennett and the marquis Henri de la Falaise. Also, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grand-hotel-premiere-shearer-crawford/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Women&#039;s Picture Vs. Chick Flick</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/womens-picture-vs-chick-flick/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/womens-picture-vs-chick-flick/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:21:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/womens-picture-vs-chick-flick/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ruth Chatterton knew better than most how to succeed in a man's world. Robert Allen is the guy in the picture. The film is The Lady of Secrets (1936). In his Vanity Fair piece &#34;The Right Fluff: A Guy's Guide To Chick Flicks,&#34; James Wolcott quotes Joseph McBride, whose highly detailed biography of Frank Capra I'm currently reading. &#34;Film biographer Joseph McBride explains: 'Until recently, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/womens-picture-vs-chick-flick/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Sandra Bullock: THE WOMEN Remake</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-women-remake-in-the-works/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-women-remake-in-the-works/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:23:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-women-remake-in-the-works/</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to Variety, Clare Boothe Luce's mordant comedy The Women may be headed for the big screen for the third time in 65 years. With New Line as the potential distributor, the new remake would be the feature-film debut &#8212; as writer-director &#8212; of Diane English, best known as the creator and writer of the TV series Murphy Brown. [Photo: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-women-remake-in-the-works/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1925: John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Constance Talmadge, Renée Adorée</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-gilbert-norma-shearer-constance-talmadge-irene-rich/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-gilbert-norma-shearer-constance-talmadge-irene-rich/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:26:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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