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- October 7th, 2023, 7:52 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
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Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
https://i.imgur.com/RtmbLMh.png Drifting , directed by Tod Browning, starred Priscilla Dean as Cassie Cook, Matt Moore as Captain Arthur Jarvis, Wallace Beery as Jules Repin, and Anna May Wong as Rose Li. The film was released in July of 1923 at seven reels. Complete copies are held at the George E...
- October 5th, 2023, 7:39 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
I am guessing that Trilby is the Svengali story. Okay, I could have looked it up but I thought I would bust chops. Maybe it's the story from her point of view. entirely. Yes, this film is based on the novel Trilby , which features the Svengali character. But the story is not told from her (or his) ...
- October 4th, 2023, 11:33 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
Coming in October:
Drifting, with Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Wallace Beery, and Anna May Wong
Human Wreckage, with Mrs. Wallace Reid, James Kirkwood, and Bessie Love
The Huntress, with Colleen Moore and Lloyd Hughes
Trilby, with Andree Lafayette and Arthur Edmund Carewe
Drifting, with Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Wallace Beery, and Anna May Wong
Human Wreckage, with Mrs. Wallace Reid, James Kirkwood, and Bessie Love
The Huntress, with Colleen Moore and Lloyd Hughes
Trilby, with Andree Lafayette and Arthur Edmund Carewe
- September 30th, 2023, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
♫ Hooray for Martin Johnson And his young wife Osa The African explorers Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! ♫ (...although and I hate to point this out here Rich, but there was no mention at all of shooting any elephants in pajamas...that's always the best part of these kinds of stories, ya know) Yeah, yeah, ...
- September 30th, 2023, 10:45 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
https://i.imgur.com/6XR7Xbg.png Trailing African Wild Animals was produced and directed by the husband and wife explorers Martin Johnson and Osa Johnson. The seven-reel film is presumed lost. The release date is uncertain; although some sources say October or November of 1923, the film was being sh...
- September 26th, 2023, 8:23 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: OBITUARIES
- Replies: 524
- Views: 80826
Re: OBITUARIES
David McCallum https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/ I like to think that David McCallum is having a wee dram now with Gordon Jackson at Scott's Bar in Piccadilly. Tallyho Ashley-Pitt. Yep, he was probably the very last of 'The Great Escape' cast I wou...
- September 25th, 2023, 10:55 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3826
- Views: 231852
- September 23rd, 2023, 2:58 pm
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
...The publicity stills below show Normand with a bear, which appears in the film (although I could not determine in what context): About three-quarters of the way through, there's scene in which while Suzanna and Ramon are dining alfresco out in the Sonoran Desert, the bear comes in and swipes the...
- September 23rd, 2023, 7:54 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
https://i.imgur.com/HsNdIMv.png Suzanna , written and produced by Mack Sennett, directed by F. Richard Jones, starred Mabel Normand as Suzanna, Walter McGrail as Ramon, Leon Bary as Pancho, and Winifred Bryson as Dolores. The film was released in January of 1923 at eight reels. A complete copy is h...
- September 19th, 2023, 3:45 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Bug Night
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5292
- September 19th, 2023, 7:38 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Bug Night
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5292
Re: Bug Night
Anyone who has seen the movie would like to forget it.ziggy6708a wrote: ↑September 19th, 2023, 2:56 am too bad they forgot the ''GRASSHOPPERS IN CHICAGO'' w/Peter Graves flick
- September 18th, 2023, 7:30 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Bug Night
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5292
Re: Bug Night
In my high school biology class, we were required to have an insect collection. My teacher went nuts if anybody said "bug collection." That's when I learned that all bugs were insects, but not all insects were bugs.
Hope this doesn't bug anyone.
Hope this doesn't bug anyone.
- September 18th, 2023, 7:27 pm
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: Garbo Day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2627
Re: Garbo Day
Yeah, no silents. Romance is one of my least favorites. Mine too. It stinks on ice. LOL. Never heard that expression! :D One time I was taking the "minutes" at a faculty meeting, and my colleagues were complaining about the new copy machine. So I put down "it stinks on ice." At ...
- September 18th, 2023, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: Garbo Day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2627
- September 16th, 2023, 7:25 am
- Forum: Silents & PreCodes
- Topic: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 75807
Re: NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO)
https://i.imgur.com/C2AYIc4.png Paddy The Next Best Thing , directed by Graham Cutts , starred Mae Marsh as Paddy Adair, Darby Foster as Lawrence Blake, Lillian Douglas as Eileen Adair, and George K. Arthur as Jack O’Hara. The film’s release date is uncertain, but it was seven reels and is presumed...