Latino Images in Film: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Warner Baxter on TCM
Turner Classic Movies‘ series "Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film" kicks off this evening.
So what if "Latino" isn’t a race? So what if it isn’t even an ethnic or a cultural group, but merely a US-made sociopolitical construct? I’d say that what matters here are the films themselves — all Hollywood productions. And hopefully some of the introductions, provided by Robert Osborne and UCLA professor of film and media studies Chon A. Noriega, will be illuminating.
Tonight, TCM watchers will be able to catch Hollywood’s foremost couple of the 1920s, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, playing Spanish-speaking characters (by way of English-language intertitles) in, respectively, the D. W. Griffith-directed early short Ramona [...]
by Andre Soares | May 5, 2009
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Tags: Chon A. Noriega, Classic Movies, Dolores Costello, Douglas Fairbanks, Ethnicity in Film, In Old Arizona, Mary Pickford, Old San Francisco, Raoul Walsh, Robert Osborne, TCM, The Mark of Zorro, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Baxter
IN OLD ARIZONA – Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe
In Old Arizona (1928)
Direction: Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings
Screenplay: Tom Barry; from O. Henry’s (aka William Sidney Porter) 1907 short story "The Caballero’s Way"
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess
TIRED IN THE SADDLE
What makes Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh’s In Old Arizona (barely) watchable decades after its highly successful initial release is its sheer bizarreness. Technically, the picture, billed as the first outdoor talkie, is of interest solely as a museum piece. Despite the use of the American Southwest’s wide-open spaces as background, In Old Arizona is really not that different from other static, slow-moving, and poorly acted films of the period. From a thematic standpoint, however, this racy Western is a must-see because of its in-your-face pre-Production Code sensibility, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 14, 2004
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Tags: Classic Movies, Dorothy Burgess, Edmund Lowe, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, In Old Arizona, Irving Cummings, Oscar 1929, Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Hollywood, Raoul Walsh, Warner Baxter, Westerns
