Rex Ingram Articles

Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor in Richard Brooks‘ The Last Time I Saw Paris (top); Alice Terry, Antonio Moreno in Rex Ingram’s Mare Nostrum (middle); Gina Lollobrigida (bottom) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rex Ingram, and Gina Lollobrigida. No, not together again — or ever, for that matter. But samples of their individual works can all be found this evening on Turner Classic Movies. Right now, TCM is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]