Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: Although never as big a name as his father, Jr. did succeed in attaining Hollywood stardom. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was never as popular as his father, silent…
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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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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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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…
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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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Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall…
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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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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…