Swampland race relations: Old indie mixes reactionary ideas about interracial love with vengeance and voodoo in tragic actress’ final little-seen film.
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Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
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M’Liss with Mary Pickford and Theodore Roberts. Mary Pickford was the definition of Movie Superstar from the early 1910s to the late 1920s. So popular and so powerful was Pickford…
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Groucho Marx, Thelma Todd in Norman Z. McLeod’s Monkey Business It’s Thelma Todd day on Turner Classic Movies. As part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series, about a dozen…
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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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Had the Oscars been around a decade earlier, silent era superstar Mary Pickford would’ve been an early winner for her dual performance in Stella Maris.
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Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall…
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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 is…
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Early talkies on TCM: Rudy Vallee in The Vagabond Lover + Tanned Legs & Spring Is Here In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies will be showing three early talkies: The…
‘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…
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…