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Classic Film Aficionados On that Sunday in March with spring at the doorstep of 1917, an action-adventure-mystery-romance-serial began its fifteen week run. The Voice on the Wire clearly had the attention of the nation. No expense was being spared for the promotion of this actioner, VOW, made availa read more

Classic Film Aficionados The Love Parade premiered in New York City on Tuesday, November 19, 1929 at the Criterion Theater, opening with all of the fanfare (Maurice Chevalier in attendance[i]), and the jubilant expectation of the first-nighters at a grandiose-opening of the newest play on the Great read more

Classic Film Aficionados Born Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen on Friday, December 10th, 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, Victor McLaglen (a former boxer) was an adventurer at heart, never satisfied with the norm, and in some way seeking fodder for future stories that he might relay read more

Classic Film Aficionados 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 read more

Classic Film Aficionados Prologue:The Devil is in the details. It all began with the signing of the new contract by Orson Welles with RKO. With Kane came unprecedented freedoms and choices for Welles, the new agreement gave cast and script approval along with the final cut to RKO for The Magnificent read more

    A B-Movie all the way, often playing second bill to “The Ghost of Frankenstein,” seldom was it offered a display ad, most of the time a simple text listing in the local paper. Roget was directed by Phil Rosen (a successful silent director, his work in sound was confined t read more

    A B-Movie all the way, often playing second bill to “The Ghost of Frankenstein,” seldom was it offered a display ad, most of the time a simple text listing in the local paper. Roget was directed by Phil Rosen (a successful silent director, his work in sound was confined t read more

Originally posted on Classic Film Aficionados: On that Sunday in March with spring at the doorstep of 1917, an action-adventure-mystery-romance-serial began its fifteen week run. The Voice on the Wire clearly had the attention of the nation. No expense was being spared for the promotion of this acti read more

Originally posted on Classic Film Aficionados: The Love Parade premiered in New York City on Tuesday, November 19, 1929 at the Criterion Theater, opening with all of the fanfare (Maurice Chevalier in attendance[i]), and the jubilant expectation of the first-nighters at a grandiose-opening of the new read more

Originally posted on Classic Film Aficionados: 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, read more

Originally posted on Classic Film Aficionados: Born Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen on Friday, December 10th, 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, Victor McLaglen (a former boxer) was an adventurer at heart, never satisfied with the norm, and in some way seeking fodder for future stories read more

Originally posted on Classic Film Aficionados: Prologue:The Devil is in the details. It all began with the signing of the new contract by Orson Welles with RKO. With Kane came unprecedented freedoms and choices for Welles, the new agreement gave cast and script approval along with the final cut to R read more

    This Film-Noir was an alternate version of the German production of Stürme der Leidenschaft, same story, simply different languages (German and French) and a different cast (Leidenschaft starred Emil Jannings, while Tumultes had Charles Boyer), but each movie had the same production read more

    This Film-Noir was an alternate version of the German production of Stürme der Leidenschaft, same story, simply different languages (German and French) and a different cast (Leidenschaft starred Emil Jannings, while Tumultes had Charles Boyer), but each movie had the same production read more

    This Film-Noir was an alternate version of the German production of Stürme der Leidenschaft, same story, simply different languages (German and French) and a different cast (Leidenschaft starred Emil Jannings, while Tumultes had Charles Boyer), but each movie had the same production read more

  On Tuesday, April 19th, 1927 the “King of Kings’ premiered in New York City; an epic religious moving-picture on a Biblical scale directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Jeanie Macpherson, cinematography by J. Peverell Marley. The principal photography took place at Culver Stud read more

Classic Film Aficionados Golgotha (AKA: Behold the Man or Ecce Homo) was the first sound film of the life of Christ, it was directed and written by Julien Duvivier, with the cinematography by Jules Kruger, the costumes were designed by Jacques-Philippe Heuzé, the makeup artist was Acho Chakatouny; read more

Classic Film Aficionados As we can see from the posters, lobby cards, programs and ads for Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, every means and all tools were used to promote this film, yet, because of its budget (most expensive of the silent era at 3.9 million) it lost money on its initial run, finally m read more

  On Tuesday, April 19th, 1927 the “King of Kings’ premiered in New York City; an epic religious moving-picture on a Biblical scale directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Jeanie Macpherson, cinematography by J. Peverell Marley. The principal photography took place at Culver Stud read more

Classic Film Aficionados Golgotha (AKA: Behold the Man or Ecce Homo) was the first sound film of the life of Christ, it was directed and written by Julien Duvivier, with the cinematography by Jules Kruger, the costumes were designed by Jacques-Philippe Heuzé, the makeup artist was Acho Chakatouny; read more