By Dr. Bill Lipsky–
Theirs was one of the great romances of the golden age of the silent screen. The movie-going public, however, who then wanted to know everything about the stars, never learned about it. Had Hollywood publicist and widely popular fan magazine correspondent Herbert Howe written of his ongoing affair with Ramón Novarro, one of the era’s most celebrated and desired film personalities, he would have had the biggest scoop of his career. He also would have ended both their professional lives.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Howe not only wrote about the stars, but he also appeared in stories others filed. He was a major Hollywood personality himself, who “knows everybody worth knowing in pictures.” Readers regularly learned about his imaginary girlfriends and his invented romances with some of the most famous leading ladies of the time. He was, according to Adela Rogers St. Johns in a 1923 article in
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Four films that tested the star s durability with the American public
by Graham FullerSunday, 07 March 2021
Falling in love again: Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in Seven Sinners Universal
Her glory years as the muse of Josef von Sternberg long gone, Marlene Dietrich had been labelled “box-office poison” and was sulking on the French Riviera when the producer Joe Pasternak summoned her back to Hollywood to star opposite James Stewart in George Marshall s
Destry Rides Again (1939).
Her glory years as the muse of Josef von Sternberg long gone, Marlene Dietrich had been labelled “box-office poison” and was sulking on the French Riviera when the producer Joe Pasternak summoned her back to Hollywood to star opposite James Stewart in George Marshall s
Snow storms, hoot-owls, a new park
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Editor’s note We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.
This week in 1903, the Hillsboro News-Herald reported that the Rev. E.J. Moore and William Wheeler, representatives of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, would be spending next Sunday in Hillsboro and would preach at the Methodist Church that morning.
Ladies, are you weary and worn out all the time, suffering from a weak back with headaches, nervousness and restlessness? If so, the paper advocated buying a little tin of Doan’s Kidney Pills for immediate relief.
How do I select the movie I pick each week? It’s not particularly scientific, I look through what I can easily find – which is very easy in the silent era, since everything is old enough to be in the public domain at this point, provided that it wasn’t lost completely, like The Miracle Man, which had the biggest box office of 1919 but no longer exists – and pick something that seems interesting in some way. In the case of Broken Blossoms, I picked it entirely because of the man who made it, D. W. Griffith. It’s impossible to talk about the silent era without talking about Griffith, who was one of the major directors of the time. His films contributed to the way movies looked, and how movies still look - his use of close-ups is still a basic part of film grammar today, but was revolutionary at the time. But the problem with Griffith is that while he was technically brilliant, he also made Birth of a Nation, which was incredibly racist. Not just racist in a modern con
Silent film classic Way Down East to screen at Flying Monkey
January 21, 2021PLYMOUTH The iconic image of actress Lillian Gish trapped on an ice floe and headed straight for a waterfall will once again fill the big screen when Way Down East (1920) is revived on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center, 39 Main St., Plymouth.
General admission is $10 per person.
The movie, a blockbuster melodrama directed by D.W. Griffith, is set in old-time rural New England, and was partly filmed on location in New Hampshire and Vermont. It stars Gish in an acclaimed performance as a wronged woman trying to make her way in an unforgiving world. Can she find love and redemption, or will she ride to her doom on the raging river s ice floes?