Cinecon 2009

James Mason, Deborah Kerr in Hatter’s Castle (top); Frances Dee, Maurice Chevalier, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette in Playboy of Paris (bottom)

Cinecon 45 is currently taking place at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The (old & mostly rare) film marathon ends late Monday afternoon.
Thus far, the 2009 edition of Cinecon has already screened several rarities, including the Ludwig Berger-directed, 1930 comedy-musical Playboy of Paris, starring Maurice Chevalier and Frances Dee; the 1942 British production Hatter’s Castle, starring Robert Newton, and featuring up-and-coming players Deborah Kerr and James Mason; Norman Z. McLeod’s 1932 adaptation of The Miracle Man, starring Sylvia Sidney and Chester Morris (Lon Chaney became a star following the release of the now almost completely [...]

Best Films – 1916

FILM
Sold for Marriage
d: Christy Cabanne; scr: William E. Wing
 
CHECK THESE OUT
His Picture in the Papers
d: John Emerson; scr: John Emerson, Anita Loos
Kärlek och journalistik / Love and Journalism
d: Mauritz Stiller; scr: Harriet Bloch
 
ACTOR
Richard Lund
Love and Journalism
Tully Marshall
The Devil’s Needle
 
ACTRESS
Lillian Gish
Sold for Marriage
 
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Frank Bennett
Sold for Marriage
George Fawcett
The Habit of Happiness
 
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Stina Berg
Love and Journalism
Norma Talmadge
The Devil’s Needle
 
CINEMATOGRAPHY
H. Lyman Broening
Snow White
Eugene Gaudio
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 
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Honorary Oscars & Women II

Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver (top); Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert in Midnight (middle); Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi in The Divine Lady (bottom)

Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I
Among the distinguished female film professionals in Hollywood and elsewhere — some of whom dating back to the early days of cinema — who have gone to the Great Beyond without receiving the Academy’s career achievement Oscar are actresses Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Marlene Dietrich, Alida Valli, Simone Signoret, Joan Crawford, Anna Magnani, Susan Hayward, Dolores del Río, Norma Talmadge, Anne Baxter, Joan Bennett, Lilli Palmer, Constance Bennett, and Kay Francis.
Also, Ann Sheridan, Constance Talmadge, Irene Dunne, Colleen Moore, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Jean Arthur, [...]

Cinesation 2007

Cinesation, a film festival that focuses on hard-to-find samples of vintage American cinema, will return to the historic Lincoln Theatre in Massillon, Ohio, for its 17th year. The festival runs from Thursday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 30.
Titles that have already been announced are:
Rubber Tires (1927, right), the last film directed by Alan Hale, best known as a supporting player in numerous Warner Bros. films of the ’30s and ’40s. This cross-country road movie stars Bessie Love, who was featured in the first talkie to win a best picture Academy Award, the mammoth 1929 hit The Broadway Melody; silent-era leading man Harrison Ford (no relation to the Indiana Jones actor); and May Robson, just about every film performer’ [...]

Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge Screenings

February 2007 will be Talmadge month at New York City’s Donnell Library Center Auditorium. As part of the "Meet the Music Makers" series, which explores the artistic symbiosis between the silent screen and live musical accompaniment, three Constance Talmadge vehicles and one Norma Talmadge comedy will be screened on four consecutive Wednesdays, beginning February 7, at 2:30pm. Admission is free.
The musicians accompanying the screenings — and discussing their craft — are Bruce Loeb, Stuart Oderman, Judith Rosenberg, and The Biograph Players: Edward Hupton, Joe Kerr, and John Francis.
The series, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, and organized by the Donnell Media Center’s Joseph Yranski, a silent-film connoisseur if there ever was one (I’ve [...]