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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Silent Films</title>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s ZEPPED Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Chaplin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips reports that a long-thought lost Charles Chaplin film has been accidentally found after a film collector made an eBay bid  on a nitrate film canister.
Phillips explains that &#34;the footage turned out to be the obscure Chaplin short [Zepped], a World War  I propaganda effort designed to buck up British morale, combining  stop-motion animation and outtakes and unused alternate shots from  films Chaplin made for both Keystone and Essanay studios.
&#34;The hybrid, over which Chaplin apparently exercised no creative  control, includes a shot or two from His New Job, the short film  Chaplin made for the Chicago-based Essanay during his 23-day residency  here in late 1914 and early 1915.&#34;
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		<title>D.W. Griffith in California</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/d-w-griffith-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Sweet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[D. W. Griffith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mae Marsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man's Genesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Pickford]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Female of the Species]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum will present &#34;D.W. Griffith in California,&#34; on Sunday,  Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film  scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films.
Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man&#8217;s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress  (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea   (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the  Species (1912, 17 min).
All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by  Cliff Retallick.
Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PONY EXPRESS &#8211; Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-pony-express-betty-compson-ricardo-cortez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betty Compson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinesation 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Torrence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Bancroft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Cruze]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Pony Express]]></category>
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The Pony Express (1925)
Direction: James Cruze
Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman&#8217;s story
Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart
&#160;

The Pony Express is a  rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express with a backdrop of political ambitions concerning a senator&#8217;s plans to get California to secede from the United States so he can build his own empire. 
A great cast and Cruze&#8217;s direction keep this one interesting &#8212; even though Ricardo Cortez in a period film seems woefully out of place and pretty Betty Compson&#8217;s role is more or less that of an ingenue,  merely requiring her to look good while reacting  to the things going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE RAVEN &#8211; Henry B. Walthall &#8211; d: Charles Brabin</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-raven-henry-b-walthall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Brabin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Cochran Hazelton]]></category>
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The Raven (1915)
Direction: Charles Brabin
Screenplay: Charles Brabin; from George Cochran Hazelton&#8217;s novel and play The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe 
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard
&#160;

Starring Henry B. Walthall, The Raven is an  Essanay feature depicting the life of Edgar Allan Poe, starting with his childhood and going all the way to his marriage to his cousin (played by the little-known Warda Howard). 
Charles Brabin&#8217;s direction is uneven: At some points it&#8217;s stagy and rudimentary;  at other points, Brabin  creates some remarkably striking and eerie visual effects, including a bravura scene for Walthall in which he descends further and further into madness following the death of his wife. Brabin visualizes this with a barrage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M&#8217;LISS &#8211; Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/mliss-mary-pickford-thomas-meighan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinesation 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Marion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M'Liss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marshall Neilan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roberts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walter Stradling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
M&#8217;Liss (1918)
Direction: Marshall Neilan
Screenplay: Frances Marion; from Bret Harte&#8217;s story 
Cast: Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue, Winifred Greenwood
&#160;

Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan in M&#8217;Liss
&#160;

Directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Frances Marion &#8211; two frequent Mary Pickford collaborators &#8212; M&#8217;Liss is one of Pickford&#8217;s very best films. In this comedy-drama, Pickford plays a spirited and unruly mountain girl, that&#8217;s the M&#8217;Liss of the title, who falls in love with the new schoolteacher (Thomas Meighan) &#8212; who is later falsely accused of murder. 
Pickford, by then already a superstar, gives a sterling performance; she is ably supported by (future star) Thomas Meighan as the schoolteacher, as well as a fine collection of character actors including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT WHITE TRAIL &#8211; Doris Kenyon</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-great-white-trail-doris-kenyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinesation 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doris Kenyon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gardner Hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leopold Wharton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gordon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Great White Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Wharton]]></category>

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The Great White Trail (1917)
Direction: Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton
Screenplay: Gardner Hunting and Leopold Wharton 
Cast: Doris Kenyon, Paul Gordon, Richard Stewart, Thomas Holding, Louise Hotaling, Hans Roberts, Edgar Davenport
&#160;

Some films have &#34;everything except the kitchen sink&#34; as the saying goes. Well, the 1917 melodrama The Great White Trail has a plot that has everything and about three kitchen sinks as well, as it briskly makes its way from one improbable situation after another before everything is happily resolved in the final reel. 
Doris Kenyon plays a happy young wife and mother. When her irresponsible brother appeals to her for help, her husband (Paul Gordon) misunderstands the situation, believing her to be unfaithful. He turns  her out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HER NIGHT OF ROMANCE &#8211; Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/her-night-of-romance-constance-talmadge-ronald-colman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinesation 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hans Kraly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Her Night of Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Binger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Victor Milner]]></category>

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Her Night of Romance (1924)
Direction: Sidney Franklin
Screenplay: Hans Kräly 
Cast: Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Jean Hersholt, Albert Grand, Robert Rendel
&#160;

Directed by Sidney Franklin and written by frequent Ernst Lubitsch collaborator Hans Kräly, Her Night of Romance is certainly on my list of top three favorite films at Cinesation 2009.
Constance Talmadge, whose extant films are hard to come by, is always a delightful comedienne. In Her Night of Romance, Talmadge  plays Dorothy Adams, a wealthy young woman who goes about in hideous disguises to ward off  fortune hunters  only interested in her money. Eventually, Dorothy meets and falls in love with an impoverished English Lord (Ronald Colman), who is mistaken for a doctor. The &#34;doctor&#34; goes along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR d: Anthony Asquith</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-cottage-on-dartmoor-anthony-asquith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Cottage on Dartmoor]]></category>
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A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Direction: Anthony Asquith
Screenplay: Anthony Asquith; from a story by Herbert Price
Cast: Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Schlettow
&#160;

Uno Henning in A Cottage on Dartmoor
&#160;

Very  little in a career overview of filmmaker Anthony Asquith prepares a  viewer for the brilliant thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor, released by Kino, which he both wrote (from a story by Herbert Price) and directed. Asquith&#8217;s wonderful  but straightforward adaptations of Pygmalion (1938) and The Browning  Version (1951) &#8212; and, to a lesser extent, The Importance of Being Earnest  (1952) and Libel (1959) &#8212; do not really speak to the dynamics of this 1929 film.
The director fully embraces the tale of obsessive love in terms of  silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PILLARS OF SOCIETY &#8211; Henry B. Walthall &#8211; d: Raoul Walsh</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/pillars-of-society-raoul-walsh-henry-b-walthall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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Pillars of Society (1916)
Direction: Raoul Walsh
Screenplay: From a novel by Henrik Ibsen
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, Juanita Archer, George Beranger, Josephine Crowell, Olga Grey
&#160;

 Pillars of Society is a  film about hypocrisy, having its basis on a story by Ibsen. The Birth of a Nation hero Henry B. Walthall (right) plays the son of a Norwegian shipping company; in his youth, he goes to Paris to study and has an affair with a married Bohemian actress. However, his brother-in-law is falsely accused of having said affair with the actress;  he protects Walthall by accepting the blame and leaving for America. 
Years later, the brother-in-law  returns and demands that Walthall clear his name. Fearing that if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CROOKED STREETS &#8211; Ethel Clayton</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/crooked-streets-ethel-clayton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Holt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Crooked Streets (1920)
Direction: Paul Powell
Screenplay: Edith M. Kennedy; from a story by  Samuel Merwin
Cast: Ethel Clayton, Jack Holt, Clyde Fillmore, Josephine Crowell
&#160;

&#160;

Beautiful Ethel Clayton, a major star in the 1910s, plays a young woman who takes a job as secretary to a Professor of antiquities about to embark upon a trip to China. Clayton, however, has a secret motive for wanting to get to China. 
Crooked Streets is an excellent  action-packed drama with a particularly impressive lengthy  chase sequence in which Clayton rides alone to a dangerous part of town and is attacked by a massive crowd of Chinese locals. The film also offers a  great fight sequence between Jack Holt and a Chinese thug who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O MIMI SAN &#8211; Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/o-mimi-san-sessue-hayakawa-mildred-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cecil B. DeMille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinesation 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
O Mimi San (1914)
Direction: Charles Miller
Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince (unconfirmed)
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris, Tsuru Aoki
&#160;

O Mimi San is historically important as Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa&#8217;s first film. In it, Hayakawa plays a prince who goes to a retreat after an attempt on his life is made; once there he falls in love with a young woman (Mildred Harris,  future wife of Charles Chaplin) but then finds himself torn between love and  duty as a leader of his nation. Compounding matters, an arranged marriage (with Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa&#8217;s own future wife) awaits him. 
Directed by Charles Miller and allegedly written by Thomas H. Ince (a studio head best remembered for his &#34;mysterious&#34; death in 1924), O Mimi San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DEVIL&#8217;S CLAIM &#8211; Sessue Hayakawa</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-devils-claim-sessue-hayakawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bazen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Swickard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colleen Moore]]></category>
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The Devil&#8217;s Claim (1920)
Direction: Charles Swickard
Screenplay: J. Grubb Alexander
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Rhea Mitchell, Colleen Moore, William Buckley
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In The Devil&#8217;s Claim, Sessue Hayakawa plays an Indian (!) novelist who uses his experiences with women as inspiration for his novels. Next, he encounters a young American woman (Rhea Mitchell) who tells him a story about Satan-worshipping societies and evil talismans. Her real motive, however, is to reunite the novelist with Indora (future 1920s superstar Colleen Moore), a young Persian girl whom he had abandoned. 
Directed by Charles Swickard from a screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander, The Devil&#8217;s Claim is an excellent drama &#8212; and so is  Hayakawa&#8217;s performance. Much of the plot is told in the &#34;story within a story&#34; mode, [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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, she would have short-term memory loss due to a stroke,  which made interviewing her more difficult. That, and the image that she  presented to the world in some ways made her appear unreliable. All I know is  that I was able to prove most of the stories she told me with secondary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro II: Best Films, Rex Ingram</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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 the aviator Alexis Rosanoff  opposite Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931), or as the rapist-suitor of Myrna Loy  in The Barbarian (1933). He excelled in light comedic moments, especially in  The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and in several of his musicals including The Cat  and the Fiddle (1934) and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ramon-novarro-allan-ellenberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;d amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful.
We&#8217;ve since become good friends (but Allan, you need to buy me pizza more often), so I&#8217;m glad to report that his Ramon Novarro (McFarland, 1999) is now available in paperback at online bookstores. In his carefully researched book (I&#8217;ve read it about four or five times), Allan discusses Ramon Novarro&#8217;s life and career from his early beginnings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lon Chaney&#8217;s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Halloween Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The 1925 silent classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney (above) in the title role, will be screened  on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2:30 pm at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. This Halloween Special presentation by the Los Angeles Theatre Organ Society will feature live musical accompaniment on a Wurlitzer theatre organ restored with the  support of the Peter Lloyd Crotty Charitable Fund.
Directed by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera is perhaps  Lon Chaney’s best-known movie role.  At about that time, Chaney became a contract player at MGM, where  he would star in a number of highly successful productions, some of which have popped up on Turner Classic Movies.
Based on  Gaston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pordenone 2009: THE MERRY WIDOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mae Murray shows her legs in The Merry Widow

At The Bioscope: Pordenone Film Festival Day I
&#34;The main event, though, is the Erich Von Stroheim version of The Merry Widow (USA 1925), introduced by Leatrice Joy Fountain and featuring a new  orchestral score by Maud Nelissen. The film itself is almost a  checklist of Von’s obsessions; militaria, aristocrats at play, wedding  processions, grotesques, fetishes and matters of honour; how close it  all is to the source material I’m not qualified to say, but it’s a  superior piece of froth; the score, using Lehar lightly but effectively  matched it to perfection. And every new film I see John Gilbert in, my  perception of him changes; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Dane Biographer Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/karl-dane-biographer-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allan Ellenberger interviews biographer Laura Petersen Balogh, whose book on silent-film comedian Karl Dane has just been published by McFarland. 
Here&#8217;s a brief snippet:
Why Karl Dane? What is it about him and his story that moved you to write a biography?
I had always known who Karl Dane was, being a silent film buff my whole life, but he never really made  that much of an impression on me. I had read different Hollywood  scandal books which said his voice was not suited to the talkies, but  pretty much thought that was the end of the story. It wasn’t until  December 2005, when my husband Dan and I were watching the 1933 early  sound serial The Whispering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LLoyd Hamilton: Poor Boy Comedian of Silent Cinema</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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In the San Francisco Examiner, Thomas Gladysz talks about the recently released biography of silent-film comedian Lloyd Hamilton:
&#34;Chances are, if you’re a fan of early film or early comedic actors,  you’re only dimly aware of Lloyd Hamilton. Though he was never as  popular as his silent film contemporaries Charlie Chaplin, Buster  Keaton and Charley Chase, he was admired and even praised by those same  greats. Some have called Hamilton a &#8216;comedian’s comedian.&#8217; And pretty  much everyone who has seen his films agrees he was an original talent.
&#34;The  reputation of Lloyd Hamilton &#8211; a once popular baby-faced comic with a  trademark checkered cap &#8211; has not fared well since his death at the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Davis, Barbara Steele, ALIEN: Library of Congress Packard Campus&#8217; Fall Series</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/bette-davis-alien-packard-campus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#160;
 Oscar winners,  horror movies, and silent shorts are all part of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation&#8217;s  fall film series in Culpeper, Va., starting Oct. 8.
Among the Oscar winners is best actress Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938), William Wyler&#8217;s classic romantic melodrama that was Warner Bros.&#8217; answer to Gone with the Wind. (The film was based on a flop play that starred Miriam Hopkins, Bette Davis&#8217; future archrival.) Davis was one of the top contenders for the role of Scarlett O&#8217;Hara, but had to content herself with playing Jezebel&#8217;s  wilful Southern belle &#8212; who dares to wear a red dress (in black and white) at a ball much to the shock and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinesation 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan in M&#8217;Liss

Cinesation 2009 is currently taking place at the Lincoln Theater in Massilion, Ohio. The four-day festival, which ends on Sunday, will screen a number of  hard-to-find titles, including:

 James Cruze&#8217;s 1925 political-historical Western The Pony Express, starring Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft in a tale of powerlust and media manipulation. Hey, sounds like life in the early 21st century? Well, that&#8217;s a mere coincidence, as The Pony Express is set in mid-19th-century California, a time when Sen. Glen (Al Hart) and his Knights of the Golden Circle scheme to have the state secede from Union, annex another chunk of Mexico, and form a new empire.
The 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle M&#8217;Liss, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOAH&#8217;S ARK &#8211; George O&#8217;Brien, Dolores Costello</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Noah&#8217;s Ark  (1928)
Direction: Michael Curtiz
Screenplay: Anthony Coldeway; from Darryl F. Zanuck&#8217;s original story
Cast: George O&#8217;Brien, Dolores Costello, Guinn &#8216;Big Boy&#8217; Williams, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Malcolm Waite, Paul McAllister
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Of all the films from that magical moment when silent movies merged into sound, nothing is as effective as Michael Curtiz&#8217;s Noah&#8217;s Ark: it has a romantic story, splashy scenes, and plenty of disasters.  Add to that some Biblical babble and you have what can be best described as an &#34;epic.&#34;
In Noah&#8217;s Ark, two American chums bumming around Europe on the eve of WWI get personally involved in the drama when their country enters the conflict. Travis, played by handsome male lead George O&#8217;Brien, and his best friend, Al (Gwynn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Lloyd on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Silent-comedy fans will be rejoicing today, as  Turner Classic Movies&#8216; &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; series continues  with a day dedicated to Harold Lloyd, one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1920s.
Personally, I&#8217;m not a fan of knockabout silent comedies, which usually leave me as stone-faced as Buster Keaton.  That said, Lloyd&#8217;s go-getter was a pleasant character (even if a tad creepy-looking, what with those geeky glasses and all that makeup plastered on his face), and some of his stunts remain as remarkable today as they were more than eight decades ago. Particularly memorable is his spider-man bit in Safety Last! (1923), in which he scales the side of a Los Angeles building.
Speedy (1928), directed by Ted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom)

Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, and Lillian Gish are only a few of the superstars to be found at the 14th San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which will take place July 10-12 at the Castro Theatre. Among those scheduled to provide musical accompaniment to the on-screen action are the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Philip Carli, Stephen Horne, Dennis James, and Donald Sosin.
Among the San Francisco Silent Film Festival&#8217;s highlights are:
The Gaucho (1927), an adventure tale involving faith and redemption, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez in her first important film role. 
&#34;A daring departure,&#34; is how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNDERWORLD Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/underworld-josef-von-sternberg-brent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook in Underworld

Josef von Sternberg&#8217;s 1927 crime classic Underworld will be screened on Friday,  June 19, at 8 p.m. at  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Alloy  Orchestra will perform their score for the film,  starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, and George Bancroft. This  will be the Boston-based orchestra’s only Los Angeles performance of Underworld this year.
Underworld, called the precursor &#8212; or at least the most notable precursor &#8212; of the gangster genre of the 1930s, features a ruthless mobster (Bancroft), his mistress (Brent), and his lawyer (Brook). Inevitably, romance and bullets ensue.
In 1929, at the first Academy Awards ceremony, Underworld won an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies! Moguls! Monkeys! and Murder!: Centennial of Los Angeles&#8217; First Film Studio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edendale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Boggs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Herrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monte Cristo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Selig Polyscope Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theda Bara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Mix]]></category>
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&#34;Movies! Moguls! Monkeys! and Murder!&#34; is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; celebration of  the  centennial of the first permanent film studio  in  the Los Angeles area. The event, which will showcase   films shot in Los Angeles between  1909 and 1914, will take place on Wednesday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn  Theater in Hollywood.
&#34;Movies! Moguls! Monkeys! and Murder!&#34; will also kick off a three-month exhibition  exploring those pioneering days, when independent producers set up shop in Southern California to enjoy the sunshine, the varied topography, and the distance between Los Angeles and the East Coast&#8217;s filmmaking oligarchy. 
And what was the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Meighan, THE LOST SQUADRON at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/niles-essanay-the-lost-squadron-thomas-meighan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Via Thomas Gladysz&#8217;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. &#34;Broncho Billy&#34; Anderson (the &#34;ay&#34; in Essanay; the &#34;ess&#34; was George K. Spoor), the first cowboy star. 
The Niles Essanay Museum&#8217;s line-up for the rest of April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D. W. Griffith, Emile Cohl &#8211; A Century Ago: The Films of 1908</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#8220;A Century Ago: The Films of 1908,&#8221; showcasing filmmaking highlights of 1908, will be the next presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; series &#8220;Monday Nights with  Oscar.&#8221; The screenings will be held  on Monday, April 20, at 7:30  p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. Hosted by the Academy&#8217;s  Director of Educational Programs and Special Projects Randy Haberkamp,  the evening will feature live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.
Among the shorts included in the &#8220;A Century Ago: The Films of 1908&#8221; presentation are  Biograph&#8217;s After Many Years, in  which new director D. W. Griffith (above) experiments with parallel cutting and  camera movement; Vitagraph&#8217;s trick film The Thieving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under Full Sail &#8211; Silent Cinema on the High Seas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cecil B. DeMille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Down to the Sea in Ships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Beheim]]></category>
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Flicker Alley in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of &#34;Under Full Sail &#8211; Silent Cinema on the High Seas,&#34; a new DVD release featuring, as per its press release, &#34;five breathtaking films that preserve the romance, grandeur and allure of windjammers sailing open waters, exquisitely photographed in the style of the time.&#34;
The following information is from the Flicker Alley release:
The Yankee Clipper (1927), produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian, restored to the most complete version available since the film&#8217;s release, is a feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade.  The gorgeous production filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA&#8217;s Festival of Preservation you&#8217;ll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang&#8217;s unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money).
Unlike Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor&#8217;s similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret Beyond the Door boasts a highly stylized Gothic feel that makes the viewer feel just as off-kilter as both the heroine and the hero. Stanley Cortez, who also shot Orson Welles&#8216; The Magnificent Ambersons, was the cinematographer.
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 5, at 7pm, the Festival of Preservation will feature two rarities from the 1910s: Lena Rivers, a [...]]]></description>
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