Ramon Novarro ca. 1925. Ramon Novarro: Mexican-born actor was first Latin American Hollywood superstar Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro, the original Ben-Hur and one of MGM’s biggest stars of the late…
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Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Trifling Women Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blames Catholicism Ramon Novarro’s extant films for Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), in which…
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Rex Ingram. St. Patrick’s Day always reminds me of silent era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda,…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald movies + Gina Lollobrigida comedy and Rex Ingram mystical spy-romance fantasy + quartet of ‘serious’ 1950s Hollywood classics.
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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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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…
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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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June Mathis / © Allan Ellenberger Collection June Mathis. The name means nothing to most of today’s filmgoers and to the vast majority of self-proclaimed film historians. Yet, nearly nine…
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Rudolph Valentino profile by James Steffen on TCM: “The breakthrough film for Valentino was Rex Ingram’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921). The World War I melodrama, based on…
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro: Biography of the tragic gay actor and MGM star (Ben-Hur) who was both devoutly Catholic and homosexual.
Alice Terry and 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…
Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the biggest box office hits of the silent era. Eighty-six years after its original release, Rex…