The Mollycoddle with Douglas Fairbanks as the title character. Douglas Fairbanks is ‘The Mollycoddle’ for pre-‘Gone with the Wind’ director Victor Fleming Douglas Fairbanks has the title role in the…
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Mexican actors: Durango-born Ramon Novarro, Canadian Norma Shearer, and Dane Jean Hersholt in the German Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Turner Classic Movies’ Hispanic Heritage Month celebration…
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John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil. Just a few days ago I was wondering if Turner Classic Movies would devote a day to the likes of…
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Desert Nights: Enjoyable John Gilbert Sahara adventure dares to ask old philosophical question. Mary Nolan bathes naked and Ernest Torrence steals show.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino (left) and then-extra Ramon Novarro (right). Rose Dione is seen holding the French tricolor in Rex Ingram’s 1921 blockbuster. Directed by…
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Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang’s sci-fi classic Metropolis (upper middle); George O’Brien (center) in John Ford’s The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge…
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Eugène Lourié homage: Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange) in Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and the American Cinematheque (AC)…
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Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta. Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Gail Russell, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald, Emil Jannings, Jacques Tati, Nelson Eddy, Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, and…
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Bugs Bunny & Pepe le Pew: Chuck Jones remembered. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, and numerous other characters created or…
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg with Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer. The theme of a prince who gives up the girl he loves in order to fulfill his royal…
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Silent era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge at Norma’s Santa Monica beach house. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are the stars of two recent Kino International releases. Talmadges who? Well,…
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Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis, The Pagan. Dorothy Janis, who made a few film appearances at the dawn of the sound era and was the widow of bandleader Wayne King, died…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Osborne: Classic movie selections on TCM. Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in…
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Movie Star Stamps: Katharine Hepburn + Pioneering Black Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and movie cowboys William S. Hart and Tom Mix + Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
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J’accuse!: Abel Gance Anti-War Classic restoration and Lon Chaney + Bimbo the Gibbon and best Buster Keaton movie? All at San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: Restored Classics. Turner Classic Movies’ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22–25 in Hollywood, will feature the world…
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Angry Young Man Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest. “Four Angry Young Men” is the title of a four-film series to take place on…
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Noah’s Ark with George O’Brien, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, and Paul McAllister. Of all the films from that magical moment when silent movies merged into sound, nothing is as effective…
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Denise Darcel. Cinecon 45 is currently taking place at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The (old & mostly rare) film marathon ends late Monday afternoon. Thus far, the 2009…
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom) Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert,…
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Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook in Underworld Josef von Sternberg’s 1927 crime classic Underworld will be screened on Friday, June 19, at 8 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full…
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Sold for Marriage: Remarkably modern early silent film Though all but completely forgotten today, Christy Cabanne (at times billed as William Christy Cabanne) was a respected name in the 1910s…
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The Italian movie: George Beban plays an Italian immigrant whose American dream quickly derails into a nightmare of poverty and despair ‘The Italian’ movie: Early depiction of the ‘American Nightmare’…
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Tess of the Storm Country with Mary Pickford and Harold Lockwood. Directed by Edwin S. Porter (of The Great Train Robbery fame), the 1914 version of Tess of the Storm…
The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper,…
Ann Blyth. Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the…
Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro, The Cat and the Fiddle Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro is a film star biography I wrote several years ago. The book tells the…
Oscar Voting ‘Secrets’ help to explain Kate Winslet Best Actress win + War Movies are Online Critics Faves while Mexican Immigration film tops Marrakech.
‘The Marines Are Coming’: Gay star’s final movie The Marines Are Coming was a last-minute substitution for the 1936 version of M’Liss, starring Anne Shirley, which was originally scheduled but…
Harold Lloyd in Speedy with Ann Christy. Silent-comedy fans will be rejoicing today, Aug. 5, as Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series continues with a day dedicated to…
Lady Windermere’s Fan with Irene Rich. Bert Lytell is the nice husband, May McAvoy the jealous wife, Ronald Colman the other man, and Irene Rich the scene stealer in Ernst…