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 …