I don't know...

A Woman of Paris is a truly great film, but I'm not sure what I could bump from my list to place it in.

Hey, there's an absolute raving beauty in The Beloved Rogue - she can be seen behind Barrymore early in the film, a blonde.

wow, Ann Arbor's just down the road, less than two hours. I have this coming week off work - WooHoo! Don't know what I'll be doing just yet...

Garbo, for me, transcends any labels and categories - I suppose she's not on my list simply because it seems a trivial place for her.

Joan Crawford never did it for me either, at all.

Carole Lombard crossed my mind too, nice choice.

I completely forgot about Marion Davies! In an era when Marion Davies was the standard, Corinne Griffith is very average. I also didn't even consider foreign actresses, like Brigitte Helm...

Corinne Griffith looks pretty average to me.

Louise Brooks
Betty Compson
Lillian Gish
Mary Philbin
Jobyna Ralston
Esther Ralston
Mary Duncan
Vilma Banky
Olive Borden
Anna May Wong

Special mention to Mary Pickford and Mary Miles Minter.

Hey Synnove, I had no idea you were in my neck of the woods! Whereabouts in Michigan have you been staying?

The Passion of Joan of Arc
Napoleon
Intolerance
The Crowd
Sunrise
Pandora's Box
The Docks of New York
The Wedding March
Metropolis
The Thief of Bagdad
Beau Geste
Broken Blossoms
I Was Born, But...
The Scarlet Letter
Tabu


Mostly off the top of my head, but still a pretty secure set.

The first time I saw Passion was on a video tape I bought from a company that prided themselves on their Silent film presentations, saying they were all presented with “acuview” or some such nonsense. Anyway, gullible me, I purchased the tape (along with a few others) and put it in as soon as it ar...

feaito wrote: I have the KINO version and it's very good (IMO). It has the original 1922 score by Louis F. Gottschalk & William Frederick Peters, arranged & performed by Brian Benison.

Brian Benison is a hack. I don't think there is a definitive version of 'Orphans' out there.

The only thing I dislike about Orphans of the Storm is the painful 'comedy relief.' At least there isn't as much of it as in Way Down East, but comedy clearly was not Griffith's strong suit, he certainly had problems incorporating it into his big pictures.

As far as von Sternberg's films, I much prefer The Docks of New York to The Last Command. Last Command seems to almost have a sort of comic book quality to it as far as the revolution/spy aspects of the story.