NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday April 11 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Jeff Rapsis (piano) THE ITALIAN (1915, New York Motion Picture Corp.) George Beban and Clara Williams star as immigrants struggling to survive in...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday April 4 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Bruce Loeb (piano) SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK (1921, Max Linder Productions) Max Linder breaks a mirror just before he is about to be married and falls ...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday March 28 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Frederick Hodges (piano) THE MIDNIGHT GIRL (1925, Chadwick Pictures) Lila Lee is the Midnight Girl, a singer, and Bela Lugosi is Nicholas Harmon,...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Sunday March 22 4:00 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 From Our Archive Talking Pictures on Sunday THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940, Charles Chaplin Productions) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, R...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday March 21 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Greg Pane (piano) LEAP YEAR (1921, Paramount) Roscoe Arbuckle had finished work on this film just before his disastrous Labor Day weekend in San ...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday March 14 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Link for tickets: http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/march-2015.htm" target="_blank Judy Rosenberg (piano) Comedy Short Subject Night A WOMAN (1915, ...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday March 7 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Bruce Loeb (piano) BLUE BLAZES RAWDEN (1918, William S. Hart Productions) William S. Hart departs from his typical western role to play a tough lu...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday February 28 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Link for tickets: http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/february-2015.htm" target="_blank Comedy Short Subject Night Greg Pane (piano) THE BANK (1915...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday February 21 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Judy Rosenberg (piano) 7th HEAVEN (1927, Fox Film, tinted) Janet Gaynor received an Academy Award for Best Actress in part for her performance...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Sunday February 15 4:00 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 From Our Archive Talking Pictures on Sunday JOAN CRAWFORD INTERVIEW (1966, 40 min.) RAIN (1932, Feature Productions, 93 min.) Joan Crawford is S...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday February 14 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Valentino for Valentine’s Day Frederick Hodges (piano) THE EAGLE (1925, United Artists) Rudolph Valentino plays a lieutenant in the Russian ar...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday February 7 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Bruce Loeb (piano) MANHANDLED (1924, Famous Players-Lasky) Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, who works at a department store, but aspires to...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday January 31 7:30 PM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Link for tickets: http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/january-2015.htm" target="_blank Comedy Short Subject Night Greg Pane (piano) WORK (1915, Essa...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday January 24 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 SATURDAY NIGHT SHOWS 10TH ANNIVERSARY Judy Rosenberg (piano) UNDERWORLD (1927, Paramount) Solid acting by George Bancroft, Clive Brook and Evel...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday January 17 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Jon Mirsalis (Kurzweil keyboard) THE FOUR FEATHERS (1929, Paramount) Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack collaborated on this action adventure/...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday January 10 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Bruce Loeb (piano) THE GREAT K & A TRAIN ROBBERY (1926, Fox Film) Tom Mix went to Royal Gorge, Colorado, to film this one, and the action never lets up. Photographed by Daniel Clark. Preceded...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday January 3 7:30 PM Suggested member donation $5, not yet member $7 Frederick Hodges (piano) TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914, Keystone Film Company, tinted) Marie Dressler, Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand star in what was billed as the first feature comedy....

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday December 27 7:30 PM Suggested donation $5 Judy Rosenberg (piano) ELLA CINDERS (1926, First National Pictures) Colleen Moore stars in this comic take on the Cinderella story, except she escapes from the wicked stepmother by winning a beauty contest and going ...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/" target="_blank Saturday Nov. 29, 7:30PM, $5, Frederick Hodges on piano THE LOST WORLD (1925, First National Pictures, tinted) Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Bessie Love and Lloyd Hughes enter a world of dinosaurs and prehistoric life. Wi...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday November 15, 7:30PM $10, $8 for members A celebration of our 500th Saturday Night Show Link for tickets: http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/made-in-niles-weekend.htm" target="_blank BRONCHO BILLY'S WILD RIDE (1913, Essanay, 35mm) G. M. Anderson, Marguerite Clayt...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday Nov. 8, 7:30PM, $5, Jeff Rapsis on piano THE LITTLE AMERICAN (1917, Mary Pickford Film Corp.) Mary Pickford, Jack Holt and Raymond Hatton star in this patriotic film directed by Cecil B. De- Mille. Production began only a week after the United States declare...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday Nov. 1, 7:30PM, $5, Bruce Loeb on piano THE SILENT MAN (1917, William S. Hart Productions) William S. Hart plays a lone prospector who makes a big strike, but is tricked out of it and turned into an outlaw. Filmed by Joe August. Preceded by shorts: THE NEW J...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday Oct. 25, 7:30PM, $5, Frederick Hodges on piano THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925, Universal, tinted,color sequence) Lon Chaney plays his most famous role in one of the great horror films of all time. Photographed by Virgil Miller. Preceded by shorts: THE ROUNDE...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Sunday October 19 1:00 PM Suggested donation $5 Frederick Hodges (piano) Baby Peggy’s Birthday Party CAPTAIN JANUARY (1924, Principal Pictures, tinted) Before Shirley Temple’s musical version there was this touching drama with Baby Peggy (Diana Serra Cary) and Hobart...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE (1924, Famous Players – Lasky) Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson and Doris Kenyon star in this lavish costume epic, with sparking photography by Harry Fischbeck. Preceded by shorts: HIS NEW PROFESSION (1914, Keystone) Charles Chaplin MOV...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM WAY DOWN EAST (1920, D. W. Griffith Productions) Griffith turned an old stage-bound melodrama into movie melodrama that leads to a fast-paced climax, with Lillian Gish as the hapless girl adrift on an ice flow. Billy Bitzer’s camerawork succeeds under difficult condi...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday Sept. 27, 7:30PM, $5, Bruce Loeb on piano THE FINAL EXTRA (1927, Gotham Productions) Marguerite De La Motte, Grant Withers and John Miljan star in this newspaper story of a reporter on the trail of a bootlegger called “The Shadow.” Expertly photographed by R...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM THE ADVENTURER (1917, Lone Star) Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance NEIGHBORS (1920, Comique) Buster Keaton GET OUT AND GET UNDER(1920, Rolin) Harold Lloyd FROM SOUP TO NUTS (1928, Hal Roach Studios) Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Link for tickets: http://www.nilesfilmmuseum...

I liked the idea that twice the audience thinks they are getting a happy ending for the husband, wife and child but both times Theda shows up and snatches that ending away. She's the only one getting the happy ending here! I suppose you could say a loose remake of this was "Baby Face" (1932) with Ba...

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM Saturday Sept. 13, 7:30PM, $5, Judy Rosenberg on piano CHICAGO (1927, DeMille Pictures) Phyllis Haver stars in perhaps her best performance as Roxie Hart, a gold-digger who gets herself in a jam. Haver keeps the film focused on her whether she’s sassy, brassy or nast...