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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Ramon Novarro</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/ramon-novarro/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>Samuel-Novarro House Sale Pt.2: Diane Keaton, Christina Ricci Among Previous Residents</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-diane-keaton-christina-ricci/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-diane-keaton-christina-ricci/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:27:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35675</guid> <description><![CDATA[Samuel-Novarro House for Sale: MGM Star Ramon Novarro Architectural Landmark First Owner When then-resident Christina Ricci, who reportedly had been living with Adam Goldberg, put the Samuel-Novarro House on the market in 2006, I posted a detailed description of its original setup, culled from Beyond Paradise. Ramon Novarro (photo) continued to enjoy his nude piano playing until late 1938, when he traded the house for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-diane-keaton-christina-ricci/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Samuel-Novarro House for Sale: MGM Star Ramon Novarro Architectural Landmark First Owner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:26:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35671</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro swimming in his Los Feliz Hills house Lloyd Wright's Samuel-Novarro House is back in the market, as per Curbed Los Angeles. Located in the Los Feliz Hills, the eastern section of the Hollywood Hills, the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's son Lloyd Wright in the late 1920s. In order to pay for Wright's services, personal secretary Louis Samuel embezzled money from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/samuel-novarro-house-ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Pt.3: Gay Love Affairs Novarro/Valentino/Ingram Unfounded Rumors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Trifling Women Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blames Catholicism Ramon Novarro's extant films for Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), in which he plays the sly villain Rupert of Hentzau, and Scaramouche (1923), in the heroic title role, are also well worth a look. I haven't watched The Arab (1924), which has been recently brought back to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blamed Catholicism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35616</guid> <description><![CDATA[Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968 Paul Ferguson, in a letter he wrote me at the time I was working on Beyond Paradise, blamed his Catholic background for Ramon Novarro's death: &#34;When [Novarro] kissed me, I reacted like a Catholic, what they call homosexual panic. Some old guy in the desert says, 'Kill homosexuals.' It's inbred. . . . I was too [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:05:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35620</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro Earlier today, after sharing on Facebook a photo of Greta Garbo dressed in Balinese costume in the 1931 blockbuster Mata Hari, I began thinking about 1920s and 1930s Mexican-born MGM star Ramon Novarro (photo), the subject of the biography I wrote several years back, Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. Mata Hari was one of the biggest box-office hits in the careers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>John Garfield on TCM: HUMORESQUE, THE BREAKING POINT, WE WERE STRANGERS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-garfield-humoresque-the-breaking-point/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-garfield-humoresque-the-breaking-point/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:28:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27516</guid> <description><![CDATA[John Garfield, Joan Crawford, Humoresque John Garfield is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; star on Friday, August 5. TCM will be presenting twelve John Garfield movies, in addition to the 2003 documentary The John Garfield Story. There will be no TCM premieres &#8212; but don't blame TCM for that. Garfield was a Warner Bros. star and Warners' movies belong to the Time Warner [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-garfield-humoresque-the-breaking-point/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PLANET OF THE APES, Joan Crawford, Film Noir Classics: Packard Campus</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/planet-of-the-apes-joan-crawford-film-noir-classics/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/planet-of-the-apes-joan-crawford-film-noir-classics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:42:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27222</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum, Ramon Novarro in Don Siegel's The Big Steal Judy Garland would have turned 89 today. It goes without saying that Garland is one of the stars featured in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation's June 2011 schedule. Unfortunately, the Garland screening of For Me and My Gal took place yesterday. So, it's too late for me to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/planet-of-the-apes-joan-crawford-film-noir-classics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</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>Rex Ingram: Launched Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:16:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rex Ingram (top); Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, in Ingram's Trifling Women (bottom) St. Patrick's Day always reminds me of silent-era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent-era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, Mare Nostrum, The Magician, and The Garden of Allah, and whose birth &#8212; as Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock &#8212; took place in Dublin on Jan. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro in SCARAMOUCHE on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-scaramouche-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-scaramouche-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:33:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25213</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram's Scaramouche Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies' Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years of the Mexican Revolution. Tonight, Novarro's vehicle is Scaramouche (1923), one of his most prestigious critical and box-office hits, and one featuring another revolution, the one in France back in the late 18th century. Directed by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-scaramouche-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro&#039;s THE RED LILY, Pedro Infante&#039;s LAS MUJERES DE MI GENERAL on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-red-lily-pedro-infante-las-mujeres-de-mi-general-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-red-lily-pedro-infante-las-mujeres-de-mi-general-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:46:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25181</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, The Red Lily Early Mexican-born screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro is back on Turner Classic Movies this evening with a presentation of Fred Niblo's silent melodrama The Red Lily (1924). That will be followed by another Ismael Rodríguez effort, Las mujeres de mi general (&#34;The Women of My General&#34;), a 1951 starring Mexican icon Pedro Infante as a rebel general torn between [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-red-lily-pedro-infante-las-mujeres-de-mi-general-tcm/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>Margaret O&#039;Brien on TCM: HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS, BIG CITY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/margaret-obrien-tcm-heller-in-pink-tights-big-city/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/margaret-obrien-tcm-heller-in-pink-tights-big-city/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:25:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24978</guid> <description><![CDATA[Margaret O'Brien, Judy Garland in Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis For Turner Classic Movies' Margaret O'Brien Day on Sunday, Aug. 15, TCM will present the television premiere of Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Joke. But then again, I don't think they've shown Meet Me in St. Louis in at least two weeks, which almost makes the Sunday showing of the classic Vincente [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/margaret-obrien-tcm-heller-in-pink-tights-big-city/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</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>Rudolph Valentino in THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:58:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24883</guid> <description><![CDATA[Star Rudolph Valentino (foreground, left), extra and future star Ramon Novarro (third from the right), and Rose Dione holding the French tricolor in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (click on the photo to enlarge it) Directed by Rex Ingram, and starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, the silent-era blockbuster The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will be screened on Tuesday, July 20, at 7:30 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, Claudette Colbert, Alla Nazimova: &quot;Ornament and the Enchantress&quot; Film Series</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greta-garbo-hedy-lamarr-claudette-colbert-alla-nazimova/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greta-garbo-hedy-lamarr-claudette-colbert-alla-nazimova/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:44:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24492</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alla Nazimova, Salome (top); Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Mata Hari (bottom) Alla Nazimova's Salome, Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra, Hedy Lamarr's Delilah, and Greta Garbo's Mata Hari are the four temptresses featured in the &#34;Ornament and the Enchantress&#34; film series presented by Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Museum. Charles Bryant's Salome (1923); Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934), co-starring Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon; DeMille's Samson and Delilah [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greta-garbo-hedy-lamarr-claudette-colbert-alla-nazimova/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson: Love Sells?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-love-sells/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-love-sells/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24404</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart: Fame, Rape, Metaphors Now, this is one section of the Elle interview in which Kristen Stewart doesn't sound all that convincing: On Robert Pattinson: &#34;People always ask me if I'm dating Robert. It's beyond annoying. People say that if I just tell them everything they'll leave me alone, but God, you think if I tell people they'll leave me alone? They pick up [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-love-sells/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>18</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Anthony Slide Interview II: Hollywood Fan Magazines, Scandals, and Innuendos</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-scandals-gossip-jean-harlow/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-scandals-gossip-jean-harlow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 12:32:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24121</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claudette Colbert drawing by James Montgomery Flagg on Photoplay; two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer, whose "tempestuous life" is described in the magazine, turned 100 last January INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD FAN MAGAZINE: Interview with Anthony Slide Part I I recall reading a quite negative and personal story in The New Movie Magazine written by columnist Herbert Howe about MGM star Ramon Novarro. How could something like [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hollywood-scandals-gossip-jean-harlow/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>Ramon Novarro Bio Pt.2: Gay Murder Scandal Obscured Professional Legacy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-bio-gay-murder-scandal/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-bio-gay-murder-scandal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:13:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35638</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro BEYOND PARADISE: THE LIFE OF RAMON NOVARRO Pt.1 Yet, despite his professional accomplishments &#8212; film critics both liked and respected him &#8212; Ramon Novarro's most enduring claim to fame is his violent death: His nude, bloodied corpse was found in his Hollywood Hills house on Halloween 1968, in what has become one of the most infamous Hollywood scandals. An ardent Catholic who more [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-bio-gay-murder-scandal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Biography BEYOND PARADISE in Paperback</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:11:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35640</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro, The Cat and the Fiddle Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro is a film star biography I wrote several years ago. The book tells the story of the first Latin American performer to become a major Hollywood star, Ramon Novarro. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, Novarro arrived in Hollywood in 1916, a refugee from the civil wars [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, Max Ophüls&#039; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/louis-jourdan-letter-from-an-unknown-woman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/louis-jourdan-letter-from-an-unknown-woman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:26:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23779</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan Letter from an Unknown Woman Louis Jourdan is Turner Classic Movies' star of the evening, which has just kicked off with a showing of Vincente Minnelli's 1958 multiple Oscar-winning musical Gigi, co-starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. But the highlight of the Louis Jourdan evening comes later, with the 7:15 p.m. (Pacific Time) TCM premiere of Max Ophüls' haunting Letter from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/louis-jourdan-letter-from-an-unknown-woman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Silent Film Actress Dorothy Janis&#039; Recent Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/silent-film-actress-dorothy-janis-recent-photo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/silent-film-actress-dorothy-janis-recent-photo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:46:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23719</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dorothy Janis Dorothy Janis, aka Dorothy King, was one of the last living adult performers to have had at least one major role in silent feature films. Janis died on March 10 at the age of 98. I posted an obit on that date, explaining that Janis, the widow of bandleader Wayne King, was featured in a handful of movies right at the time when [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/silent-film-actress-dorothy-janis-recent-photo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Actress Dorothy Janis Dies: One of the Last Silent Screen Performers</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:04:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23225</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis, The Pagan Dorothy Janis, who made a few film appearances at the dawn of the sound era and was the widow of bandleader Wayne King, died Wednesday morning in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley, according to musician Lew Williams, who received the news from Janis' granddaughter. Janis, one of the last surviving performers to have played at least one major [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ethnicity in Film: Ramon Novarro</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-mexican-star-44876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-mexican-star-44876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22136</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ethnicity in Film: Luise Rainer, Nancy Kwan The issue of ethnicity and movie roles came up to me a few years ago, while I was working on a biography of Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro (above), Beyond Paradise. I'd read much about white performers playing non-white roles, but basically nothing about non-white actors playing white roles. Yet, back in those days it wasn't that uncommon. Although [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-mexican-star-44876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro III: Anita Page, Murder, Life As a Gay Man</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/ramon-novarro-ellenberger-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/ramon-novarro-ellenberger-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18018</guid> <description><![CDATA[Anita Page, Ramon Novarro in The Flying Fleet Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview II Ramon Novarro and Anita Page. Do you believe he actually asked her hand in marriage as she claimed later in life? I do, and the main reason is that I knew Anita Page and interviewed her extensively for over a year before her health really began to decline. At that point, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/ramon-novarro-ellenberger-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro II: Best Films, Rex Ingram</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18017</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro in The Cat and the Fiddle. Photo: Courtesy Matias Bombal Collection. Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview I How would you describe Ramon Novarro the actor? Novarro was a first-rate actor – maybe not an Olivier, but a good solid actor. Even in bad films such as Laughing Boy (1934), he had his moments. He was excellent in dramatic roles such as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18015</guid> <description><![CDATA[I first contacted author Allan Ellenberger shortly before the publication of his book on Old Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, as at the time I was working on my own Novarro bio. Instead of treating me like a pesky rival, Allan generously shared the information he'd amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful. We've since become good friends [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1935</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4334</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town's Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</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; 1933</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1933/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1933/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:57:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4328</guid> <description><![CDATA[Greta Garbo in Queen Christina FILM Baby Face d: Alfred E. Green; scr: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola The Barbarian d: Sam Wood; scr: Anita Loos, Elmer Harris Dinner at 8 d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Donald Ogden Stewart Gold Diggers of 1933 d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Erwin Gelsey, James Seymour, David Boehm, Ben Markson I'm No Angel d: Wesley Ruggles; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1933/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1931</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1931/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1931/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances FILM À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us d, scr: René Clair City Streets d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett Daybreak d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath Five Star Final d: Mervyn LeRoy; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1931/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</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; 1929</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1929/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1929/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10066</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alexandra Schmidt in Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness FILM Eternal Love d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans Kräly, Claudine West The Love Parade d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton Lucky Star d: Frank Borzage; scr: Sonya Levien; dialogue: John Hunter Booth; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1929/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1928</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1928/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1928/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:56:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10056</guid> <description><![CDATA[Evelyn Brent, Emil Jannings in The Last Command FILM The Crowd d: King Vidor; scr: King Vidor, James V. A. Weaver; titles: Joseph W. Farnham The Docks of New York d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: Jules Furthman; titles: Julian Johnson The Last Command d: Josef von Sternberg; scr: John F. Goodrich; titles: Herman J. Mankiewicz Sadie Thompson d &#38; scr: Raoul Walsh; titles: C. Gardner [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/best-films-of-1928/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>SOLD FOR MARRIAGE &#8211; Lillian Gish</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sold-for-marriage-lillian-gish-christy-cabanne/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sold-for-marriage-lillian-gish-christy-cabanne/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:56:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=9273</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sold for Marriage (1916) Direction: Christy Cabanne Screenplay: William E. Wing Cast: Lillian Gish, Frank Bennett, Walter Long, Allan Sears, Pearl Elmore, Curt Rehfeld &#160; Though all but completely forgotten today, Christy Cabanne (at times billed as William Christy Cabanne) was a respected name in the 1910s and 1920s. Among his credits are the1916 Douglas Fairbanks vehicle The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, considered by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sold-for-marriage-lillian-gish-christy-cabanne/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Photo Montage</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-photo-montage-the-pagan-clip/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-photo-montage-the-pagan-clip/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:30:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-photo-montage-the-pagan-clip/</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1p2iVS9GLg[/youtube] Ramon Novarro is one of the actors featured in the &#34;Movie Legends&#34; photo montage (created by basilnelson) found on youtube. Among other celebrities of yore &#8212; some long forgotten &#8212; included in this particular series are Clara Bow, Tallulah Bankhead, Clara Kimball Young, and Dolores del Rio.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-photo-montage-the-pagan-clip/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS: Q&amp;A with Author Allan R. Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:39:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/</guid> <description><![CDATA[As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger's Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data &#8212; as collected by 1930 census takers &#8212; of more than 2,000 &#34;U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures.&#34; (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.) The book, of course, doesn't offer any saucy insights into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Phil Hall&#039;s Top 50 Lost Films of All Time</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:14:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/</guid> <description><![CDATA[At Film Threat, Phil Hall lists the &#34;Top 50 Lost Films of All Time.&#34; According to Hall, &#34;among the missing movies are the world's first feature film [The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), right], the first Technicolor feature [The Gulf Between (1917)], the first animated feature in both the silent and sound eras [El Apastol (1917) and Peludópolis (1931), respectively], the first werewolf movie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/top-50-lost-films-film-threat/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis in THE PAGAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-dorothy-janis-in-the-pagan/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-dorothy-janis-in-the-pagan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:53:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-dorothy-janis-in-the-pagan/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Pagan, Ramon Novarro's first sound vehicle &#8212; with a pre-recorded soundtrack but no dialogue &#8212; became one of the biggest hits at the U.S. box office in 1929, and a huge success overseas as well. In this fresh-as-an-ocean-breeze comedy-drama-romance, Novarro, at his most natural, is a half-native young man idling his life away in a tropical paradise in the South Pacific. Things change with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ramon-novarro-dorothy-janis-in-the-pagan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro/Lloyd Wright Home on the Market</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright-home/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright-home/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:02:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright-home/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Samuel-Novarro House in the Los Feliz Hills Designed by Lloyd Wright (that's Frank Lloyd Wright's son) in the late 1920s for MGM star Ramon Novarro's then personal secretary, Louis Samuel, the unusual residence known as the Samuel-Novarro House is located in the Oaks neighborhood of the Los Feliz Hills, the eastern section of the Hollywood Hills. The Samuel-Novarro House was initially supposed to have been [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-lloyd-wright-home/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BEYOND PARADISE: THE LIFE OF RAMON NOVARRO</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:16:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Greta Garbo, Mata Hari Among the Mexican-born Ramon Novarro's best-known movies are Rex Ingram's The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Scaramouche (1923), and The Arab (1924), all three featuring Ingram's wife, Alice Terry; Fred Niblo's worldwide blockbuster Ben-Hur (1925), with May McAvoy; Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), with Norma Shearer; and W.S. Van Dyke's The Pagan (1929). Also: George Fitzmaurice's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1923: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Lon Chaney</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-alice-terry-john-gilbert-eleanor-boardman-lon-chaney/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-alice-terry-john-gilbert-eleanor-boardman-lon-chaney/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:24:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25293</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry in Rex Ingram's Scaramouche Best Films – 1923: Film, Cinematography BEST ACTOR John Gilbert Cameo Kirby Ramon Novarro Scaramouche &#160; BEST ACTRESS Renée Adorée The Eternal Struggle Eleanor Boardman Souls for Sale Mae Marsh The White Rose Edna Purviance A Woman of Paris Alice Terry Scaramouche &#160; Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Lon Chaney The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-alice-terry-john-gilbert-eleanor-boardman-lon-chaney/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1922: F. W. Murnau&#039;s NOSFERATU, John Gilbert, Seena Owen</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/best-films-of-1922/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/best-films-of-1922/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:22:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4305</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ok, so Max Schreck (literally, Max Fright) was not romantic leading man material, but he did quite well for himself as the creepiest vampire of them all, Nosferatu. Those who think of director F. W. Murnau as the creator of film poetry in pictures such as Sunrise and Tabu should realize that Murnau was equally adept at creating sheer horror. No other vampire movie I've [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/silent-films/best-films-of-1922/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
