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I think I remember reading that the Star Is Born restoration does not include new material.... just gussying up what they have like they did with Vertigo a few years ago.... as with The Red Shoes, it looked fine to me.... but then I haven't seen any of these on a big theater screen in 50 years.

drednm

I wonder if they'll show the newly restored The Red Shoes ??

Has anyone seen it???

drednm

a huge expense (plus travel/hotel) to see films I've already seen and probably own.... plus where's the film list?

NOPE

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LOL FRED..... I like Cortez best when he's playing a total sh*t, especially in talkies. like The Firebird . The whole "latin lover" myth, which MGM kept going via Ricardo Montalban and Fernando Lamas was an example of Hollywood's most brainless stereotyping. But I do plan with watch Cortez and the s...

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Yes that's true about MacDonald.... she sang in front of a mirror and avoided "faces" required for certain words, a plus is the prerecorded days.... also MacDonald always liked to be photographed from "slightly above" to minimize her jaw line. As for Moore. In New Moon she looks ghastly, whether bec...

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About Talley.... didn't Richard Barrios is his books about musicals say she was not exactly photogenic and hence her non-success in films?

I think the same was said about Grace Moore in her early films as a reason the public didn't warm up to her as they did Jeanette MacDonald.

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Harold... I have a book (forgot the name) that deals with a conference of film executives in the late 20s. It had some connection to Photoplay. Anyway there are some important contemporary views by film executive on talkies and the continuation of silents. As I remember the article many major execut...

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and along with these mentioned Griffith films, a restoration of The White Rose (1923) would be great. The copy that has been circulating for years is almost unwatchable since it has decomposed (if that is the right word) to wear faces are pretty much just white ovals. It seems there is a clean copy ...

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Tiger Shark is the best tuna movie ever!

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Yes the theme of assimilation is quite interesting. And the irony here is the casting of Ricardo Cortez.... another irony is the "Americanization" of so many actors whose names were changed and ethnic backgrounds hidden.... Oddly it almost seems that Jewish backgrounds were the most often obliterate...

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you forgot Antonio Moreno (yawn)....

Actually the casting of Cortez in the first Maltese Falcon is pretty amazing... and it's a good film, too.

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Jorge.... it all gets very dicey when trying to peg people as this or that.... I'm nominally Italian because of my last name but I'm 3/4 English with New England roots back to 1630s.... but with the Krantz boys, there was ZERO connection to anything Hispanic. One wonder if Ricardo Cortez would have ...

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LOL.... ya there's something fishy about that 400 thing.... A quickie thing I read recently was that Stanley Cortez the cinematographer and brother of Ricardo was about to be honored as a distinguished Hispanic in films but burst the bubble when he admitted he had followed his brother in dumping the...

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oh yes! and Donna's Valentino book.... I forgot about that....

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and wasn't there a Stuyvesant Fish?

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good article..... I also have the Donald Crofton book, which seems, oddly, to be pretty much unknown....

I Have yet to see Marion Talley in any of her shorts (Vitaphone?).

I think the term "talker" was prevalent in the late 20s but got turned to "talkies" to match "movies."

drednm

I would like pristine DVDs of the Gloria Swanson films I saw at Eastman House:

THE TRESPASSER (1929)
ZAZA (1923)
FINE MANNERS (1926)
STAGE STRUCK (1925)
FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE (1919)

but there they sit.......

Ed Lorusso

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I thought it was odd that when the character changed his name from Goldfish that he chose his new name as Fish rather than Gold (still too ethnic?) or Goldwyn (Sam Goldwyn's real name was Goldfish). I guess Fish was a society name in NYC at the time?

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Interesting that the word "silent" was so commonly used. I know sound had been experimented with for quite a while. I agree about Jolson vs. Jessel, having seen the latter's Lucky Boy , a blatant copy of The Jazz Singer. , even down to the star singing to mama. Jessel had no screen charisma; Jolson,...

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Watching the so-so Hollywood Cavalcade tonight and its constant references to "silent films," it occurred to me that until the success of The Jazz Singer why would contemporaries in the teens and 20s have referred to films as "silent"? Does anyone have any info on when the term really came into use?

drednm

Have not seen this one.....

drednm

Finally got around to watching The Younger Generation, a Frank Capra silent/talkie that starts slowly bet gain emotional power as it goes along. The story of Morris Goldfish (Ricardo Cortez) and his rise from the lower East Side slums to wealth and social prestige after he changes his name to Mauric...

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Yes I had forgotten Oh, Mr. Porter . What's amazing about most of the Hay films is the verbal speed at which they whiz by. His exchanges with toothless Moore Marriott (as Harbottle) and young Graham Moffatt (as Albert) are downright hilarious. Some of the humor is Brit-centric but most of it still h...

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So was British comic Will Hay known in this country at all during his Hayday in the 30s and 40s? I was totally unfamiliar with him. I'm working through his 20 or so films. He's very funny in a series of fast-paced comedies in which he always plays an inept blowhard (often a school master). He's espe...

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I thought this was a decent film, good chemistry between Jackie Cooper and Thomas Meighan and solid support from O.P. Heggie as the hermit guy and, in an offbeat role, Dorothy Peterson as the nasty aunt (she's almost always cast as the dowdy mousy wife).

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I have a copy of this one.... a great performance by Louise Dresser.....

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I have a copy of this film but it has no subtitles......

drednm

Ok so here's a question. Just watched this infamous film, which really was pretty good (if lurid), but was a major segment cut out? So Rosa (Bette Davis) is pregnant and trapped with dull husband. She has a chance to run off with the equally dull guy from Chicago. She seemingly dresses up like her I...

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Looks like a theater in El Segundo is showing Tell It to the Marines Nov 13-15.....

This film was another stepping stone to stardom for William Haines and also stars Eleanor Boardman and Lon Chaney in his first film sans makeup.

http://www.otmh.org/

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Of these others, Janice Meredith was also MGM. Did I tell you I found by accident the last 15 minutes of Janice Meredith , which the seller had stuck on the DVD with Zander the Great . But long before that I had found a complete copy on one DVD. This is a long film based on the best-selling novel of...

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The Younger Generation (1929)

Will Hay

Beyond the Forest (1949)

Tell It to the Marines (1926)