D.W. Griffith

Lillian Gish: The Birth of a Nation actress enmeshed in Bowling Green University controversy. Should Lillian Gish be labeled a racist because at age 21 she had one of the lead roles in D.W. Griffith’s landmark – and to this…

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…

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…