Willis Goldbeck Articles

Ernest Torrence, John Gilbert, Mary Nolan, Desert Nights Desert Nights (1929) Direction: William Nigh Screenplay: Endre Bohem and Lenore J. Coffee, from a treatment by Willis Goldbeck; titles by Ruth Cummings and Marian Ainslee; story by John Thomas Neville and Dale Van Every Cast: John Gilbert, Mary Nolan, Ernest Torrence Desert Nights arrived in theaters on the coattails of the silent era. By 1929, audiences [...]

Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram's Scaramouche Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies' Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years of the Mexican Revolution. Tonight, Novarro's vehicle is Scaramouche (1923), one of his most prestigious critical and box-office hits, and one featuring another revolution, the one in France back in the late 18th century. Directed by [...]

Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg FILM Breakfast at Sunrise d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger The Enemy d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings The Unknown d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: [...]

  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 [...]