First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings in ‘The Last Command.’ First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings, first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM First Best Actor Academy Award winner Emil Jannings in The Last Command, first Best Actress Academy Award winner…
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Lost movie: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh. Oscar Winner Emil Jannings & Theda Bara + Lon Chaney & Clara Bow in Color: ‘Fragments’ on TCM The final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922), featuring Virginia Valli; Best Actor Oscar winner…
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Louise Brooks (center) in Diary of a Lost Girl (top); Fritz Lang’s sci-fi classic Metropolis (upper middle); George O’Brien (center) in John Ford’s The Iron Horse (lower middle); Norma Talmadge in Sam Taylor and Henry King’s The Woman Disputed (bottom) The San Francisco Silent Film…
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Gene Tierney in Laura with Clifton Webb: Classic 1944 film noir. Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 film noir Laura, one of the best in the genre, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion…
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Silent era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge at Norma’s Santa Monica beach house. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are the stars of two recent Kino International releases. Talmadges who? Well, just two of the most popular stars of the silent era. In fact, in terms…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Osborne: Classic movie selections on TCM. Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in TCM’s “Guest Programmer” series on Monday, March 22. Most “Guest Programmer” evenings are devoted to…
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“Important international stars from the silent era of filmmaking are undeservedly forgotten today because of the unavailability of their motion pictures, which are often considered lost.” Thus begins the press release for the seventh “Meet the Makers: Silent Film Accompanists” series, which will attempt to…
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Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball - 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film division. Produced for video by Jessica Rosner, “Reel Baseball” includes the following: On Disc 1:…
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The Talmadge Sisters: Constance Talmadge in Her Sister from Paris. Adapted to the screen by frequent Ernst Lubitsch collaborator Hanns Kräly, Sidney Franklin’s 1925 comedy Her Sister from Paris is a great showcase for one of the silent era’s foremost light comediennes, Constance Talmadge, cast…