Thomas Meighan, THE LOST SQUADRON at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Via Thomas Gladysz’s article in the Los Angeles Examiner:
The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in the Northern California town of Fremont has been screening silent films and early talkies for quite some time. As Gladysz explains in his article, that area was home to the western studios of the Chicago-based Essanay film company, among whose stars at one point were Gloria Swanson; Charles Chaplin; matinee idol Francis X. Bushman (best remembered for his villain in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur); and company co-owner Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson (the "ay" in Essanay; the "ess" was George K. Spoor), the first cowboy star.
The Niles Essanay Museum’s line-up for the rest of April [...]
by Andre Soares | April 15, 2009
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SOULS FOR SALE on Turner Classic Movies
Souls for Sale on Turner Classic Movies. Souls for Sale, a 1923 dramatic comedy written and directed by Rupert Hughes (uncle of magnate Howard Hughes), stars Eleanor Boardman, Richard Dix, Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, William Haines, Barbara La Marr, and has cameos by numerous stars of silent era.
by Andre Soares | January 24, 2006
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Tags: Barbara La Marr, Classic Movies, Eleanor Boardman, Films on Filmmaking, King Vidor, Lew Cody, Richard Dix, Silent Films, Souls for Sale, TCM, Turner Classic Movies
