Rex Ingram in The Thief of Bagdad 1940 with tiny Sabu. Actor Rex Ingram movies: Early black Hollywood performer It’s somewhat unusual for two well-known film celebrities, whether past or present, to share the same name.[1] One such rarity is – or rather, are –…
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Ramon Novarro. 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 1920s and early 1930s, has his Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” day on Thursday, Aug.…
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Rex Ingram. St. Patrick’s Day always reminds me of silent era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, Mare Nostrum, The Magician, and The Garden of Allah, and whose birth – as…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies & Gina Lollobrigida + ‘Mare Nostrum’ & ‘Serious’ 1950s Hollywood Classics
Tender Is the Night with Jennifer Jones. Henry King’s 1962 movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel – screenplay by Ivan Moffat – starred Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette, 1943) in what turned out to be her final star…
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Alice Terry and Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram’s Scaramouche. Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies’ Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years of the Mexican Revolution. Tonight, Novarro’s vehicle is Scaramouche (1923), one of his most prestigious…
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino (left) and then-extra Ramon Novarro (right). Rose Dione is seen holding the French tricolor in Rex Ingram’s 1921 blockbuster. Directed by Rex Ingram, and starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, the silent era blockbuster The Four…
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Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro, The Cat and the Fiddle Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro is a film star biography I wrote several years ago. The book tells the story of the first Latin American performer to become a major Hollywood star, Ramon Novarro.…
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June Mathis / © Allan Ellenberger Collection June Mathis. The name means nothing to most of today’s filmgoers and to the vast majority of self-proclaimed film historians. Yet, nearly nine decades ago June Mathis was, next to Mary Pickford, one of the two most powerful…
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Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. Biography of tragic gay actor discusses his personal life and career. The Ben-Hur star is seen above with Greta Garbo in the 1931 blockbuster Mata Hari. ‘Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro’ discusses the tragic gay actor…