Everywhere: THE DEADLIER SEX (1920)

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Silents Under the Stars ☆ ☆ ☆
2020
Streaming Live!
33rd Anniversary Season
☆
July 19 at 6:00pm Pacific, 9:00pm Eastern Time https://vimeo.com/event/140277

July 26 at 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 6:00pm London, and 7:00pm Paris
https://vimeo.com/439314382

The Deadlier Sex (1920) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive and Lobster Films
Starring Blanche Sweet, Mahlon Hamilton and in his first featured role, Boris Karloff!
Robert Thornby, Director Jesse D. Hampton, Producer Filmed in Truckee, California, the daughter of a railroad magnate kidnaps her business rival, taking him to the wilderness to save her father’s company and show him that “money can’t buy everything.”

Life In Hollywood (1927) Newly restored by the Library of Congress
A behind-the-scenes look at the unique architecture and landscape of the Golden Age of Hollywood, including studio tours of Warner Brothers, Christie Comedies, Metropolitan, Pickford-Fairbanks, Educational Comedies, Buster Keaton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cecil B. DeMille, Hal Roach and Universal. See Cecil B. DeMille pondering a new story! Watch directors, actors, cameramen, technicians, and musicians at work on the set!

Hosted by
Randy Haberkamp, The Silent Society, Chair
Special Guests
Sara Karloff, daughter of Boris Karloff Serge Bromberg, Preservationist Richard Atkins, President of Hollywood Heritage
Original music composed and performed by
Michael D. Mortilla

[alicefaye]

I will absolutely be tuning in, particularly for this:

Life In Hollywood (1927) Newly restored by the Library of Congress
A behind-the-scenes look at the unique architecture and landscape of the Golden Age of Hollywood, including studio tours of Warner Brothers, Christie Comedies, Metropolitan, Pickford-Fairbanks, Educational Comedies, Buster Keaton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cecil B. DeMille, Hal Roach and Universal. See Cecil B. DeMille pondering a new story! Watch directors, actors, cameramen, technicians, and musicians at work on the set!

Extremely excited to see it. I've watched the MGM studio tour from 1925 multiple times. There's such a dearth of behind-the-scenes footage otherwise.

[Bert Greene]

That was great fun, "The Deadlier Sex" (1920). Always wanted to see more of Blanche Sweet's output. Really nice scenery, stunning print, and such a young Karloff!

Thanks to all who made this available for viewing! Really appreciate the effort.

[alicefaye]

Thanks to all who made this available for viewing! Really appreciate the effort.

Hear hear. Seeing photos from previous years as well as that lovely commercial for the barn museum made me aware, in a bittersweet way, that this was the only way for me to attend Silents Under The Stars. There's very little chance I'll ever be able to travel to California at any time of year. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to join in remotely.

The piano scores were marvelous, particularly for the feature presentation. Blanche Sweet is so effortlessly charming; her smile is infectious and her body language so casually naturalistic. I don't know the leading man, but he reminded me slightly of Elon Musk, certainly appropriate given the plot. What gorgeous location shooting as well.