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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

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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

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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 →

Born on This Day: Émile Chautard (1864-1934)

07 Monday Sep 2015

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Éclair Films, Emile Chautard, Famous Players-Lasky, Frederick Warde, French Film, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Josef Von Sternberg, Paramount, Silent Movies, Thanhouser, The Fires of Youth, Under False Colors, World Film Corporation

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Next up in an ongoing series profiling key figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed is Émile Chautard. One of cinema’s early pioneers, he directed more than 100 films, and acted in sixty. Continue reading →

The Forgotten Flapper

12 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Clara Bow, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jack Pickford, Laini Giles, Mary Pickford, Myron Selznick, Olive Thomas, Silent Movies, The Forgotten Flapper, Ziegfeld Follies

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Laini Giles was born in Austin, Texas and lives in Edmonton, Alberta with her husband and three cats. An early devotion to Nancy Drew, and her discovery of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, spurred a lifelong interest in mysteries and scandals. She blogs about history, books and movies at Sepia Stories.

In her debut novel, Love Lies Bleeding (2013), a detective investigates the death of his great-aunt, a high society debutante torn between two lovers. Published on August 1, 2015, The Forgotten Flapper is based on the true story of one of Hollywood’s first stars, Olive Thomas. Continue reading →

Thanhouser and the Birth of Cinema

05 Sunday Jul 2015

Posted by marina72 in Film, History, Jeanne Eagels, Television

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Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Sean Axmaker, Silent Movies, Silent Sunday, TCM, Thanhouser, The Fires of Youth, The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema, The World and the Woman, Under False Colors

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A 52-minute documentary, The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema, will be screened in the US on TCM tonight, July 5, at 9 PM (Pacific Daylight Time), followed by three classic Thanhouser movies, made from 1912-13, when the studio was at its peak (their prodigious output accounting for an estimated 25% of independent films released in America.)

From 1916-17, a young Jeanne Eagels starred in three films produced at the Thanhouser lot: The World and the Woman, The Fires of Youth and Under False Colors. The first two are still in print, and can be viewed here. By 1918, however, the studio would close its doors.

‘They brought the dramatic qualities of theater to the screen as they all found their way into moviemaking, they lavished attention on elaborate film sets in their roomy studio, and they took their cameras on location,’ writes critic Sean Axmaker (who has also championed Jeanne’s later work.) ‘The resulting films were vibrant and lively, with often complex stories, dynamic staging, and creative camera angles and lighting. The Thanhouser brand was a recognized mark of quality to audiences and distributors alike and a century later, the Thanhouser brand still stands for high production values, sensitive direction, intelligent stories, and fluid, energetic storytelling.’

For those unable to catch the documentary on TCM, it is also available to view at Vimeo On-Demand, while DVDs can be purchased from Amazon or the Thanhouser website.

Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Barbara LaMarr, BearManor Media, Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels, Hollywood, Juanita Hansen, Marie Prevost, Mary Nolan, Michael G Ankerich, Silent Movies

Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen is an illustrated paperback by Michael G. Ankerich, published in 2010 by BearManor Media, and named by the San Francisco Examiner as one of the top silent film books of that year. Continue reading →

The Divine Woman

13 Sunday May 2012

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Gladys Unger, Greta Garbo, Irving Thalberg, Lars Hanson, Lost Films, Philip C. Riley, Sarah Bernhardt, Silent Movies, The Divine Woman, Victor Sjöström

Many films of the silent era are now lost, but only one of them starred Greta Garbo. In 1993, a nine-minute reel from The Divine Woman (1928) was found at Moscow’s Gosfilmofond archive. Continue reading →

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