The White Rose Articles
Cesar Romero Centenary Tribute
The Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters in Los Angeles will be celebrating the birth centennial of Cesar Romero (born in New York City on Feb. 15, 1907) with a screening of the 1954 biopic La Rosa blanca / The White Rose, accompanied by Romero's last filmed interview. The tribute will take place on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 6:30p.m. at the University of Southern California's [...]
Ivor Novello Remembered
"No Cardiff-born screen actor has ever been remotely as popular at the British box office as Ivor Novello," says author Dave Berry (Wales and Cinema: The First 100 Years) in the article "Novello Could Have Been a Hollywood Star." A leading star on the London stage, Ivor Novello was brought to Hollywood by D.W. Griffith for the leading romantic role in the 1923 drama The [...]
Best Films – 1923: Charles Chaplin's A WOMAN OF PARIS, Rex Ingram's SCARAMOUCHE
Edna Purviance (left) suffers in style in Charles Chaplin's A Woman of Paris BEST FILM Cameo Kirby d: John Ford; scr: Robert N. Lee Scaramouche d: Rex Ingram; scr: Willis Goldbeck The White Rose d, scr: D.W. Griffith A Woman of Paris d, scr: Charles Chaplin CHECK THESE OUT Souls for Sale d, scr: Rupert Hughes Alla Nazimova in Salome BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY [...]