Wallace Beery Articles

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, 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, [...]

The Pony Express (1925) Direction: James Cruze Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman’s story Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart   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’s plans to get California to secede from the United [...]

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, [...]