Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:35 am
Watched this new documentary last night and thought it quite good. Lots of clips and lots of commentary by Pickford from various sources.
Only quibbles were the theme music "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and they kept referring to United Artists as a studio without explaining it was a production and distribution company. They also showed a few UA pictures referring to Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Griffith, and William S. Hart (who pulled out early on) with a gray-hair man (Dennis F. O'Brien?) without identifying him. The implication was that he was Hart.
O'Brien was a lawyer: "Dennis became general’counsel and Vice President of Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, The Pickford Corporation, Mary Pickford Company, United Artists Corporation, United Artists Theater Circuit, Inc., George M. Cohan Productions, and Samuel H. Harris Theatrical Enterprises."
Only quibbles were the theme music "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and they kept referring to United Artists as a studio without explaining it was a production and distribution company. They also showed a few UA pictures referring to Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Griffith, and William S. Hart (who pulled out early on) with a gray-hair man (Dennis F. O'Brien?) without identifying him. The implication was that he was Hart.
O'Brien was a lawyer: "Dennis became general’counsel and Vice President of Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, The Pickford Corporation, Mary Pickford Company, United Artists Corporation, United Artists Theater Circuit, Inc., George M. Cohan Productions, and Samuel H. Harris Theatrical Enterprises."
Ed Lorusso
Writer/Historian
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"You're only as good as your last picture." Marie Dressler
Writer/Historian
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"You're only as good as your last picture." Marie Dressler