The Pagan Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1p2iVS9GLg[/youtube] Ramon Novarro is one of the actors featured in the "Movie Legends" photo montage (created by basilnelson) found on youtube. Among other celebrities of yore — some long forgotten — included in this particular series are Clara Bow, Tallulah Bankhead, Clara Kimball Young, and Dolores del Rio.

The Pagan, Ramon Novarro’s first sound vehicle — with a pre-recorded soundtrack but no dialogue — 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 [...]