Wallace Beery Articles
Jackie Cooper Dies: Youngest Best Actor Oscar Nominee, SKIPPY, THE CHAMP
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper in King Vidor's The Champ Jackie Cooper, a Best Actor Academy Award nominee at the age of 9, has died. The cause of death is unclear — "old age," according to his attorney. Cooper, whose film career spanned more than six decades, was 88. He had been living at a convalescent home in Santa Monica, where he died on Tuesday, May [...]
Dengue Fever Accompanies THE LOST WORLD at UCLA
Dengue Fever, a six-member band known for its eclectic mix of rock and Cambodian pop music, has been invited by UCLA Live to perform at a Los Angeles screening of the 1925 film version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure classic The Lost World on Friday, Nov. 12, at Royce Hall in Westwood. The Dengue Fever musicians composed a new score for The Lost World [...]
María Félix, Marlon Brando, Wallace Beery: 100 Years of the Mexican Revolution on TCM
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! Ramon Novarro in SCARAMOUCHE on TCM Following Scaramouche, Turner Classic Movies will show a Mexican feature set during the Revolution, Roberto Rodríguez's La Bandida (1963), starring Mexican legend María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, actor-filmmaker Emilio Fernández, and Lola Beltrán. And prior to Scaramouche, TCM is showing two Mexican Revolution films made in Hollywood: Elia Kazan's [...]
Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery's BEGGARS OF LIFE Screening
Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Beggars of Life William Wellman's 1928 silent classic Beggars of Life, starring Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, and Louise Brooks, will be screened at the 23rd edition of The Hollywood Heritage's "Silents Under the Stars" at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, northwest of Los Angeles. Michael Mortilla will provide live musical accompaniment. Though hardly a masterpiece, [...]