The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.
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Judgment at Nuremberg and Joan Fontaine: Stanley Kramer’s Best Message Movie and only Alfred Hitchcock Acting Oscar Winner plus Winter Olympics.
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Was dog star Rin Tin Tin the first Best Actor Academy Award winner? Author Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief became – more or less – director Spike Jonze…
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Lost movie: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh. Oscar Winner Emil Jannings & Theda Bara + Lon Chaney & Clara Bow in Color: ‘Fragments’ on TCM The final…
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‘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…
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Carole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot. Fredric March has his “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 24. Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric…
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The Man Who Laughs with Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova. The 13th San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF), to be held at the Castro Theater throughout the July 11-13 weekend,…
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Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball - 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film…
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Her Wild Oat, starring Colleen Moore, has been found and restored. Photos are courtesy of the Joseph Yranski Collection. Last March 29, I went to an Academy-sponsored Hollywood screening of…
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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…
William Gargan, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue in Stephen Roberts’ The Story of Temple Drake Cinefest 2011, a four-day festival of rare American films, kicked off earlier today in Syracuse,…
Gladys Brockwell. Gladys Brockwell remembered Gladys Brockwell is the subject of an article by author Allan R. Ellenberger, who discusses the death of the remarkable silent film actress. “Today is…
Essential movies from long ago Film historian Kevin Brownlow re: essential movies from the silent era in the Sunday Times (image: Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise.) “This year is…