’31 Days of Oscar’: Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) series continues with an eclectic array of 12 comedies that (hopefully) will make you laugh while forcing you to ask some tough …
Ernst Lubitsch
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Miriam Hopkins Q+A: ‘Hollywood Rebel’ or ‘Magnificent Bitch’?
15 minutes readMiriam Hopkins interview with biographer Allan Ellenberger: Talented + mercurial actress was ‘Hollywood Rebel’ or ‘Magnificent Bitch’?
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The Doll (1919): Amusing Ernst Lubitsch Fantasy
4 minutes readThe Doll (movie 1919) review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) and Hermann Thimig stars.
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Ernst Lubitsch movies’ subtle touch now passé in our age of sledgehammer filmmaking but The Student Prince and The Merry Widow still delight.
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Claudette Colbert Movies: The Smiling Lieutenant + Skylark
7 minutes readClaudette Colbert and Maurice Chevalier in The Smiling Lieutenant. Claudette Colbert movies: From ‘The Smiling Lieutenant’ to ‘Skylark’ Claudette Colbert, the studio era’s perky, independent-minded – and French-born – “all-American” …
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Ramon Novarro ca. 1925. Ramon Novarro: Mexican-born actor was first Latin American Hollywood superstar Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro, the original Ben-Hur and one of MGM’s biggest stars of the late …
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The Loves of Pharaoh (Movie 1922): Emil Jannings Hams It Up
4 minutes readThe Loves of Pharaoh (movie 1922) review: Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings chews the scenery in this disappointing Ernst Lubitsch epic. Dagny Servaes and Harry Liedtke costar.
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Royal romance movies: Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer discover sprightly love and excruciating heartbreak in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 silent classic The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. As a William & …
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The Merry Widow (Movie 1934): Musical Lubitsch Magic
3 minutes readThe Merry Widow with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. The Merry Widow is neither one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most discussed nor best-liked films. Film critics and historians generally tend to …
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Mexican actors: Durango-born Ramon Novarro, Canadian Norma Shearer, and Dane Jean Hersholt in the German Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Turner Classic Movies’ Hispanic Heritage Month celebration …
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Actress Miriam Hopkins: Early image courtesy of Allan Ellenberger. Miriam Hopkins, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on …
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Ninotchka Screening: Parisian Lights Seduce Greta Garbo
2 minutes readNinotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts …
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Lady Windermere’s Fan (Movie 1925): Classy Ensemble Comedy
2 minutes readLady Windermere’s Fan with Irene Rich. Bert Lytell is the nice husband, May McAvoy the jealous wife, Ronald Colman the other man, and Irene Rich the scene stealer in Ernst …
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Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, with William Powell. When I think of Carole Lombard, the first thing that comes to mind – well, the second, after her ditzy heiress …
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Ernst Lubitsch + Norma Shearer + Lois Wilson: SFSFF
12 minutes readThe 2007 San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) will be held at the Castro Theatre on July 13–15. Among the festival’s highlights are: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old …
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Jessie Matthews in the musical First a Girl: Victor Victoria precursor. The bfi is currently presenting a Jessie Matthews retrospective, which ends on March 11. From Richard Stirling’s bfi article: “Few stories …
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Pola Negri Movies: MoMA Remembers Fiery Polish Superstar
3 minutes readPola Negri in Madame Dubarry / Passion with Emil Jannings. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (website) is currently presenting “Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream,” a week-long retrospective on …
Gary Cooper Movies: Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie + Audrey Hepburn
Gary Cooper Movies: Playing Lover-Daddy to Joan Leslie, Audrey Hepburn in two of the weakest (but successful) films of his career.
Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell ‘7th Heaven’ + Fragment from Lost Oscar Winner ‘The Patriot’
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven, which helped – along with Sunrise and Street Angel – to earn Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award. Frank Borzage’s 7th …
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg with Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer. The theme of a prince who gives up the girl he loves in order to fulfill his royal …
Miriam Hopkins Biography: Q+A with Author Allan Ellenberger
Miriam Hopkins: Becky Sharp star. Remembering Miriam Hopkins Although relatively forgotten and, when remembered, usually dismissed as a second-rate talent (quite possibly by those who have never seen her on …
One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (website) is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective. (Image: Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, and Melvyn Douglas.) …