Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
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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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Cinecon attractions included the Charles Chaplin and Marie Dressler vehicle Tillie’s Punctured Romance, known as cinema’s first comedy feature.
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Cinecon attractions include a squeaky-voiceless (silent) and brunette Jean Arthur in The Poor Nut and a young Alice Faye in one of her earliest musicals.
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Cinecon movies: Uncut version of the pre-Code WWI drama The Eagle and the Hawk and the gender-role-reversal silent The Home Maker.
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Notable Cinecon movies include the ‘male bonding’ 1914 silent Damon and Pythias and an entertaining crime tale with a pre-Dr. Watson Nigel Bruce.
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Amateur home movies’ stars: Roddy McDowall during the filming of George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (top); Norma Shearer on the set of Romeo and Juliet (bottom). Amateur home…
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Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…
Cinecon attractions include the sentimental 1930 Al Jolson musical Mammy and the early Bette Davis drama The Menace.
The Barker with Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills. Among the good & rarities screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation (website) was a restored print of…