A story about Mary Duncan and her post-movie life as the doyenne of Palm Beach. And, possibly, the fate of the last print of the now-lost 4 Devils.

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/ ... d0117.html

Wow, Moira, THANKS!! for the great pics of the statue! It kind of looks like Farrell -- a young Farrell, and bit idealized, but hey, it's a statue. He loved tennis (he even talks about playing tennis in My Little Margie) so that pose certainly is appropriate. The Sports Illustrated article is a bit ...

You can tell I've never been to Cape Cod!

Oh, for the Janet Gaynor fans -- I just screencapped John Ford's 1926 silent The Shamrock Handicap and there are some really sweet close-ups of her in that film. http://paulasmoviepage.shutterfly.com/5281

Farrell grew up in Onset Bay, Massachusetts and I love that Cape Cod accent of his. He did invest in real estate and was an extremely big cheese in Palm Springs, where he and Ralph Bellamy founded the Racquet Club, the social center of the town for several decades, and where he also served as mayor....

I really enjoyed Fazil, not so much for the acting (though I liked Greta Nissen a lot -- what a beautiful woman) but for Howard Hawks' direction. There are some really excellent scenes in the film that are well worth studying. And if you'd like to have a look at them... yes, a few weeks ago I did Fa...

I had a curious thought though: what screening would get you on a plane? What movie do you want to see so badly on the big screen, in a great palace, that you'd fly across country to see it? Believe it or not, when they announced the screening of the restored version of Sunny Side Up, that's when I...

Re Where Are My Children, I'm assuming adoption wouldn't work if you're into "eugenic marriage." Screencaps (and a brief journal entry) from Where Are My Children at paulasmoviepage.shutterfly.com :) I've been on a Thomas Meighan kick the past few days, inspired by seeing The Racket on TCM...

I'm pretty sure I heard some chitchat about Chaplin's films being released eventually on Blu-ray in the U.S. Possibly through...Criterion? (digging deep into quickly fading memory) My Chaplin (post Mutuals) is still all on laser disc -- I didn't buy the Warner DVDs due to the issues re PAL speed-up ...

I just started reading Gregory Mank's "Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and the Bundy Drive Boys." It's a tragic/hilarious account of the drunken goings-on of a group of actors (which also included John Carradine and Roland Young) and...

Michigan, both versions of Sunrise are already on the disc in the Borzage set. :) I recently read the source material for Lucky Star -- Tristram Tupper's story "Three Episodes in the Life of Timothy Osborn." Fascinating to see how Borzage et al greatly expanded the story, but also cut out ...

I watched A Woman of Affairs which I recorded from TCM. I don't know how I managed to miss this one all these years considering that cast! Is it just me, or does Douglas Fairbanks Jr. almost steal the movie, even if his reasons for drinking were not exactly credible? :) I thought the acting was very...

I'll always be fond of Kay Francis if only because she was in Living On Velvet.

As for Ronald Colman... *swoon*

I did screencaps from The Winning of Barbara Worth and Lady Windermere's Fan -- they're on my page, paulasmoviepage.shutterfly.com

Hi, Michigan J, I recently ordered the Blu-rays of Sunrise and City Girl from amazon.co.uk so I'm just waiting on them... I'm really looking forward to the improved picture, though I do think even the standard DVDs (esp. City Girl) look pretty good. :) I wonder why the Brits get Blu-rays and we don'...

I've already scoured youtube for Borzage though I pretty much have everything on there in my collection (at least of what I've been able to find) -- but I never mind being able to hit a few buttons and watch, say, George Brent and Kay Francis falling instantly in love in Living on Velvet. :) (That's...

Has anyone had a look at Peter Kobel's Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture? It has two forwards, by Martin Scorsese and Kevin Brownlow. It's a giant coffee-table book with loads of pictures, and I was leafing through it at Borders and thinking about getting it, when I n...