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That Royle Girl premiered in Chicago, on Saturday, November 21, 1925[i], at the Balaban & Katz Uptown Theater located at Broadway and Lawrence Ave., (Uptown Theater had just opened its doors on August 18 of 1925) and had a general release on Monday, December 7 (according to Internet Movie Data read more

That Royle Girl premiered in Chicago, on Saturday, November 21, 1925[i], at the Balaban & Katz Uptown Theater located at Broadway and Lawrence Ave., (Uptown Theater had just opened its doors on August 18 of 1925) and had a general release on Monday, December 7 (according to Internet Movie Data read more

That Royle Girl premiered in Chicago, on Saturday, November 21, 1925[i], at the Balaban & Katz Uptown Theater located at Broadway and Lawrence Ave., (Uptown Theater had just opened its doors on August 18 of 1925) and had a general release on Monday, December 7 (according to Internet Movie Data read more

Lost in Translation Directed by Sofia Coppola Written by Sofia Coppola 2003/USA Focus Features/Tohokashinsha Film Company Ltd./ American Zoetrope/Elemental Films Repeat viewing/Netflix Instant streaming #1060 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2013 combined list) IMDb users say 7.8/10; I sa read more

Red Skelton, the clown prince of classic television, dominated U.S. airwaves for 20 years. In fact, when CBS cancelled the The Red Skelton Hour in 1970--after its 19th season--Red's show still ranked in the Top Ten in the Nielsen ratings. CBS's decision was driven by its desire to attract young read more

Red Hot Romance (1922) Status: Fragments survive in the Library of Congress Today, I will be featuring a forgotten film that is most notable for who was behind the camera. Victor “Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz” Fleming directed. Anita Loos and John Emerson wrote the script. The fi read more

Worthing appeared in one Vitaphone short with Shemp Howard by Frank Reighter Gerrie Worthing was a screen name. She was born Geraldine Leah Pratt on April 25, 1911 in Springfield, Massachussetts. Her parents were Robert L. Pratt and Mildred M. Worthington (this is where Gerrie's "screen" surname read more

Worth was in two Vitaphone shorts with Shemp Howard by Frank Reighter Gracie Worth was a stage name. She was born Grace Rothmund in Rome, N.Y. August 28, 1906. Her parents were E. Otto Rothmund and Grace McDermott. The family was vaudeville and stage entertainers, all using the surname Worth. Grac read more

1. Gold Key Comics published a Space Family Robinson comic book series three years before the Lost in Space TV series. Its characters were different and its authors had nothing to do with the TV series. However, the premise was similar, so Gold Key's parent company, Western Publishing, and read more

Burning Sands (1922) Status: Missing and presumed lost Another day, another sheik film. It seems that even my beloved Milton Sills was not spared the indignity of appearing in one of these things. Burning Sands was billed as “The Sheik for men” and shared both director and filming loca read more

The Face in the Dark (1918) Status: Missing and presumed lost Mae Marsh is remembered as one of D.W. Griffith’s most vulnerable actresses. Her tragic roles in The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance have been named again and again as the very essence of the art of pantomime. And yet for all her read more

by Frank Reighter Finding out about Ida Mae Johnson, the tall blonde party guest in Crash Goes the Hash (1944), was leading nowhere until Gary Lassin mentioned that the only reference to her was a snipe on the back of a studio still from that short. Johnson in Crash Goes the Hash (1944) threes read more

These photos from Carole Lombard's films "Marriage In Transit" (1925, top) and "Ned McCobb's Daughter" (1928) sadly have something in common -- aside from these and a few other still photos and lobby cards, they are all we have as visual proof these movies were made. And as a recent report from the read more

Two beguiling and intriguing shots from two lost or very hard to find movies. The first is from THE GREAT DECEPTION (1926), wherein BR essays one of his first ever villain roles, viz. “Rizzio”, the nasty German agent who nearly gets the hero and his gf killed. At some point he somehow b read more

Now let’s not get carried away… (via Tumblr) Now let’s not get carried away… (via Tumblr) London After Midnight (1927) Status: Missing and presumed lost. The only known copy was destroyed in the 1967 MGM vault fire. One of the most sought-after lost silent films, Lon Chaney read more

My favorite TV show from the 1980s is MacGyver.  It starred Richard Dean Anderson as something of a government operative who uses intellect – and whatever resources are handy – to get his way into and out of sticky situations.  Part spy and part Boy Scout, MacGyver, at his core, is a read more

For being a lost empire, Atlantis certainly has kept up with technology.  This whizz-bang action adventure was touted as Disney‘s foray into “serious filmmaking,” casting aside songs for adventure and action.  It was a gamble that didn’t pay off  in a world where CGI and live read more

REMODELING HER HUSBAND (1920): A lost Gish sisters treasure This post is written in conjunction with the Gish Sisters Blogathon hosted by The Motion Pictures and Movies, Silently. For my previous post about Dorothy and Lillian Gish, see Conservatism in Revolution: The Gish sisters in D. read more

REMODELING HER HUSBAND (1920): A lost Gish sisters treasure Labels: blogathon, Dorothy Gish, Gish Sisters blogathon, Lillian Gish, Remodeling Her Husband (1920) This post is written in conjunction with the Gish Sisters Blogathon hosted by The Motion Pictures and Movies, Silently. read more

This post is written in conjunction with the Gish Sisters Blogathon hosted by The Motion Pictures and Movies, Silently. For my previous post about Dorothy and Lillian Gish, see Conservatism in Revolution: The Gish sisters in D. W. Griffith’s ORPHANS OF THE STORM (1921). For more about silent read more