The Merry Widow Articles
Pordenone 2009: THE MERRY WIDOW
Mae Murray shows her legs in The Merry Widow At The Bioscope: Pordenone Film Festival Day I "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 [...]
Best Films – 1934
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, [...]
Best Films – 1925: Fred Niblo’s BEN-HUR, Ernst Lubitsch’s LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN
Ramon Novarro and May McAvoy in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ BEST FILM Ben-Hur d: Fred Niblo (assisted by Christy Cabanne, Alfred L. Raboch, B. Reeves Eason); scr: Carey Wilson, Bess Meredyth, June Mathis; titles: Katherine Hilliker, H. H. Caldwell The Big Parade d: King Vidor; scr: Laurence Stallings, Harry Behn; titles: Joseph W. Farnham Her Sister from Paris d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans [...]