D.W. Griffith

Godzilla 1954 competitors included the giant black ants seen in Them!. 'Godzilla' 1954 & giant black ants + Fascists & Mickey Rooney: Eclectic Packard movies Godzilla 1954, Mickey Rooney, military fascists, deadly giant black ants, racing car drivers, and The Mishaps…

American military movies: Besides depicting the Civil War, D.W. Griffith's landmark 1915 feature The Birth of a Nation had the Ku Klux Klan saving heroine Lillian Gish. From 'The Birth of a Nation' to 'Iron Man': The love affair between…

'Broken Blossoms': Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess star in D.W. Griffith's 1919 melodrama about doomed interethnic love and dysfunctional family relationships – one of the best movies of the 1910s BEST FILM Broken Blossoms The Hoodlum The Italian Little Pal…

D.W. Griffith Father of Film, controversial figure. To say that the movies wouldn't be what they are today without D.W. Griffith is probably inaccurate. I mean, someone – or “someones” – would have received credit for turning filmmaking into a…

Marion Davies in King Vidor's Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially Metro-Goldwyn – was formed through the amalgamation of Metro Pictures,…

Ann Blyth.   Ann Blyth, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), is pictured above during a discussion following a screening of the Joan Crawford classic at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in…

Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: Restored Classics. Turner Classic Movies' first-ever (2010) TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25 in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor's…

Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas,” a new…

'Sold for Marriage': Remarkably modern early silent film Though all but completely forgotten today, Christy Cabanne (at times billed as William Christy Cabanne) was a respected name in the 1910s and 1920s. Among his credits are the1916 Douglas Fairbanks vehicle…

Griffith movies: Sally of the Sawdust with Carol Dempster and W.C. Fields. Once D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish parted ways after Orphans of the Storm (1921), Carol Dempster became the filmmaker's on-screen muse (e.g., Dream Street, America) – and off-screen…

Way Down East with Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish: Griffith Cinema. One of the movies included in Kino's second D.W. Griffith cinema box set, Way Down East was one of the Broken Blossoms and The Birth of a Nation filmmaker's…

Ramon Novarro and Enid Bennett in The Red Lily. Generally, I post my “Can't Miss” warnings days after the must-see movies have been shown on television. I've decided to try something different this time around. I'm sending this “Can't Miss” warning…