The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) will showcase Hollywood and international rarities, plus well-known silent era classics. Featured stars include Norma Shearer and Douglas Fairbanks.
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Film historian Anthony Slide wearing Tom Mix’s hat in 1976. ‘Hollywood Hero’ John Dewar remembered Perhaps I have been around too long, but as I grow older I grow despondent …
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The SFSFF’s Amazing Tales from the Archives featured two fascinating topics: Finding Douglas Fairbanks’ The Half-Breed and early movie sound technology.
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Gabriel Garko will play Rudolph Valentino (a.k.a. Rodolfo Valentino in places like Italy and Brazil) in a two-part Italian TV movie. To be directed by Alessio Inturri for Mediaset, the …
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Historic Warner Hollywood Studios to Be Torn Down. Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford and Sandra Bullock among those who worked there.
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Huckleberry Finn movie: Lewis Sargent toplines sentimental William Desmond Taylor effort. Huckleberry Finn (1920) movie review: Huckleberry Finn movie review: Sentimental Fare Directed by Eventual Murder Victim Directed by William …
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Enid Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood Long before Errol Flynn, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Costner – and their Men in Tights – there was Douglas Fairbanks and his Men in …
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The Mollycoddle with Douglas Fairbanks as the title character. Douglas Fairbanks is ‘The Mollycoddle’ for pre-‘Gone with the Wind’ director Victor Fleming Douglas Fairbanks has the title role in the …
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The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom) Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, …
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Turner Classic Movies’ series “Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film” kicks off this evening. So what if “Latino” isn’t a “race“? So what if it isn’t even an ethnic …
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Douglas Fairbanks in Wild and Woolly (top) and Don Q. Son of Zorro (bottom). Below right, the silent era superstar can be seen in The Matrimaniac. The exhibition “Douglas Fairbanks: …
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The Thief of Bagdad 1924: Douglas Fairbanks’ classic was 1 of costliest silent films + rumored to have had leading lady replaced by actor’s jealous wife.
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“Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho” is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ celebration of Hollywood’s biggest (perhaps “first” as well) action-adventure star of the silent era – or, quite …
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Cinecon attractions include the sentimental 1930 Al Jolson musical Mammy and the early Bette Davis drama The Menace.
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9 (mostly) hard-to-find movies worth digging include titles starring Jean Harlow, Douglas Fairbanks and Clint Eastwood precursor William S. Hart.
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Douglas Fairbanks in The Iron Mask. Last Remaining Seats: North by Northwest & Roman Holiday The Los Angeles Conservancy (website) will present the 21st Annual Last Remaining Seats film series …
Mary Pickford Building: The Lot a.k.a. Pickford-Fairbanks Studios Los Angeles just got uglier. Despite protests, the Mary Pickford Building on West Hollywood’s The Lot has been destroyed by its current …
Mary Pickford in Maurice Tourneur’s The Poor Little Rich Girl (top); Dustin Farnum in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (bottom). The Birth of Hollywood, part II of the seven-part …
Douglas Fairbanks with Julanne Johnston The Thief of Bagdad (top); Fairbanks in The Iron Mask. Rare screenings of the Douglas Fairbanks adventure classics The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The …
David Schwartz discusses Old Hollywood director Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and the auteur theory with Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell at Moving Image Source. Here are …
Harold Lloyd Rare Pictures: Academy Exhibition Showcases Silent Era ‘comic genius’ in rarely seen photos in front of and behind camera.