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Tag Archives: Silent Movies

Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy and Legacy

31 Friday Jul 2020

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Non-Fiction

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Alfred Hitchcock, Alva Johnston, Ben Hecht, Bosley Crowther, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Cecelia Ager, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, David L. Selznick, Ernst Lubitsch, Fan Magazines, Feminism, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fredric March, Garson Kanin, George Stevens, Howard Hawks, In Name Only, Jack Benny, John Barrymore, John Cromwell, Love Before Breakfast, Mack Sennett, Made for Each Other, Mr and Mrs Smith, My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, Olympia Kiriakou, Protofeminism, Rebecca, Rhea Langham, Screwball Comedy, Silent Movies, They Knew What They Wanted, To Be Or Not to Be, Twentieth Century, Vigil in the Night, William Powell, William Wellman, Woman of the Year, World War II

“When Carole Lombard talks, her conversation, often brilliant, is punctuated by screeches, laughs, growls, gesticulations, and the expletives of a sailor’s parrot,” Noel F. Busch wrote in a 1938 cover story for LIFE magazine, headlined ‘A Loud Cheer for the Screwball Girl.’ The actress he described was seemingly not unlike the madcap heroines she often played. At thirty, she had appeared in a diverse range of films over thirteen years, and exerted a degree of control in her career unusual for a star in the studio era. However, more than eighty years later, Lombard is still perceived as a kooky comedienne, her life’s arc defined by subsequent events including her marriage to Clark Gable, and her untimely death in 1942. Continue reading →

To Save and Project: Jeanne Eagels at MoMA

19 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by marina72 in Film, History, Jeanne Eagels

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Daniel Eagan, Dave Kehr, David Stenn, Film Journal, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Louise Brooks, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Now We're In The Air, Outcast, Silent Movies, Thanhouser, The World and the Woman, To Save and Project

The World and the Woman, the 1916 silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, will be screened today – preceded by a fragment from an early Louise Brooks comedy – at 4:30 pm in New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as part of their ‘To Save and Project‘ series, curated by Dave Kehr and now in its fifteenth season, as Daniel Eagan reports for Film Journal. (And thanks to the Thanhouser Studio restoration project, you can also watch it here.) Continue reading →

Born On This Day: John Gilbert 1897-1936

10 Sunday Jul 2016

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels

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Anna Karenina, Greta Garbo, Ina Claire, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, John Gilbert, Louis B. Mayer, Love, Man Woman and Sin, MGM, Monta Bell, Silent Movies, The Fires of Youth

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John Cecil Pringle was born on July 10, 1897, in Logan, Utah. His parents were both stock company actors, and after their divorce his mother married Walter Gilbert. After many years on the road, the family settled in California. Jack, as he was nicknamed, began working at Thomas Ince’s studio in 1915, graduating from bit parts to more substantial roles over the next five years. He married Olivia Burwell in 1918, but they separated a year later. Continue reading →

Born On This Day: Gloria Swanson 1899-1983

27 Sunday Mar 2016

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Gloria Swanson, Her Cardboard Lover, Herbert Marshall, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Joseph M. Schenck, Joseph P. Kennedy, Louella Parsons, Man Woman and Sin, Rain, Raoul Walsh, Sadie Thompson, Silent Movies, United Artists, Will Hays

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Gloria May Josephine Swanson was born in Chicago on March 27, 1899. Her father was in the US army, and the family moved frequently during her childhood. After an aunt took her to visit Essanay Studios in Chicago, she left school to work as an extra. She made an uncredited debut in The Song of Soul, and acted alongside Charlie Chaplin in His New Job (1915.) Continue reading →

Born On This Day: Frederick Warde 1851-1935

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre

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Emile Chautard, Frederick Warde, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Silent Movies, Thanhouser, The Fires of Youth, Under False Colors

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Frederick Barkham Warde was born in Wardington, Oxfordshire, on February 23, 1851. Educated at the City of London School, he had planned to become a lawyer. But after being cast as ‘Second Murderer’ in an 1867 production of Macbeth, a life on the stage beckoned. He learned his craft at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, playing eighty parts in nine months. Continue reading →

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