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Fun Size Review: A Modern Musketeer (1917)
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 28, 2013
Douglas Fairbanks is a human hurricane in this action-comedy. Obsessed with adventure novels and too wild for his home in Kansas, he finds adventure and romance in Arizona. Villain to vanquish? Check! Damsel in distress? Check! Things to leap from? Check and check! Fairbanks’ stunts are fun read more
That villain must die, Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 27, 2013
Mack Sennett stars in one of his own comedies. He is a rube whose ex has become a film star. Being a bit thick, he believes that the villainous Ford Sterling is really threatening his erstwhile love. Sennett was a much better producer than he was an actor but this scene really cracked me up. Maybe read more
The Silent Life: Make yourself a hug-me-tight!
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 26, 2013
Why wouldn’t they want a hug-me-tight? If you have seen the D.W. Griffith/Lillian Gish melodrama Way Down East, you may recall an early scene in which Lillian presents a handmade hug-me-tight to her sophisticated city cousins. Ever wonder just what a hug-me-tight is? It’s basically a sh read more
Lost Film Files #22: The Face in the Dark (1918)
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 24, 2013
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
She’s America’s Sweetheart for a reason, Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 23, 2013
Other actresses have had the moniker “America’s Sweetheart” but no one has ever come close to Mary Pickford’s universal appeal. Her combination of beauty, spunk, sweetness and mischief remains just as irresistible today as it was in the 1910′s and 1920′s. Here s read more
Stella Maris (1918) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 22, 2013
Mary Pickford tackles two roles in this Dickensian soaper. She is Stella Maris: beautiful, rich, innocent and paralyzed. She is also Unity Blake: plain, penniless, ignored and abused. Both girls love the same man but he is trapped in an abusive marriage. Will true love win? And whose true love? Th read more
Silent Movie Time Capsule: In 1902, this was fantasy! Jack and the Beanstalk
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 21, 2013
Edwin S. Porter may be remembered for The Great Train Robbery but he directed a wide variety of films during his career. This 1902 fairy tale is the familiar story of Jack and his giant beanstalk. Porter works with his frequent collaborator, George S. Fleming. Obviously owing much of its visual st read more
Questions from the Google: Why do people like silent movies?
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 20, 2013
Welcome to another installment of Questions from the Google, a periodic series in which I attempt to answer some of the search engine queries that bring people to my site. This time around, I will be discussing some basic queries about famous silent films and the time period itself. You couldnR read more
The Silent Life in 1925: Bobbed hair or long tresses? You can have both!
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 19, 2013
By 1925, bobbed hair had established itself as the most stylish way for ladies to wear hair. But the ladies of the twenties soon discovered that short hair could be a bit limiting. Suppose you want an up ‘do but your hair is all clubbed? Photoplay magazine provides the answer. Wigs to the res read more
The wearer of the pants, Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 18, 2013
Margaret McWade has a small but memorable role as Wallace Beery’s wife in The Lost World. Beery’s character is a professor who is always loud and often violent. Well, the missus has had enough of her husband beating up guests in her house. The very idea! read more
Silent Movie Time Capsule: John Gilbert’s daughter posed with her mother, Leatrice Joy
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 17, 2013
Here is a lovely image from 1925 (published in Photoplay) of Leatrice Joy posing with Leatrice, Jr. Little Leatrice’s father was, of course, John Gilbert. A quick note on the name that mother and daughter share. According to IMDB, Leatrice was going to be Beatrice until her mother remembered read more
Help Wanted: What features would you like to see more of?
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 17, 2013
I would love to get everyone’s feedback on what features you enjoy the most and what you would like to see more of. What’s staying the same: I try to create at least one full-length (1500-3000 word) review once a week. I know everyone likes Silents vs. Talkies and I try to incorporate read more
Fun Size Review: The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 16, 2013
Zorro slashes his Z onto the silver screen for the first time and Douglas Fairbanks is the man who created the role. Funny, energetic and jam-packed with clever stunts. An ideal lightweight action/comedy and a perfect introduction to Fairbanks. If it were a dessert it would be: (via bhg.com) Mocha read more
The Lost World (1925) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 15, 2013
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may be famous for Sherlock but what he really loved writing were rousing adventure tales. The most famous of these concerned Professor Challenger and his intrepid band of explorers who discover dinosaurs in a lost world atop a plateau. Cutting edge stop-motion made the film read more
So long, you nuts. Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 14, 2013
Another wonderful Elmer Booth moment from The Musketeers of Pig Alley. Lillian Gish is the tomato of his dreams but she just wants to be pals. Oh well, plenty more fish in the sea, I guess. Booth played Gish’s loving brother in An Unseen Enemy, her movie debut, and Mary Pickford’s ex-c read more
Silent Movie Time Capsule: 113 years ago, Sherlock Holmes made his earliest known film appearance
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 13, 2013
The earliest known appearance of Sherlock Holmes in the movies is this 1900 comedic film entitled Sherlock Holmes Baffled. The movie runs for less than a minute and spoofs the famous detective by having him match wits with a thief who can disappear and reappear at will. A little historical context read more
Baby Peggy’s Pro Tips: Sneak attacks are good. Sneak attacks on sneak attacks are better.
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 12, 2013
Here is everyone’s favorite munchkin engaging in more mayhem. Baby Peggy is threatened with ambush so she plans a little ambush of her own. The GIF is from her short film Carmen Jr. PS, I think all small children should be decked out in Spanish gear, don’t you? read more
After the Silents: Warlock (1959)
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 10, 2013
Showdown in the old town of Warlock (via Doctor Macro) I am very happy to be writing about one of my favorite westerns. I am not an enormous fan of the genre but what I like, I really like. It helps, of course, that the movie stars three of my favorite actors of the era: Henry Fonda, Richard Widmar read more
Fun Size Review: The Sea Hawk (1924)
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 9, 2013
The New World doesn’t have a monopoly on piracy, as this film shows. Starts out as an Elizabethan romance and then takes a wild turn toward Algeria and the Barbary pirates. Milton Sills owns the hyper-masculine lead role, Wallace Beery chews scenery as an unscrupulous skipper and Enid Bennet read more
Sparrows (1926) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Dec 8, 2013
Mary Pickford dusts off her pigtails one last time in her final child role. One of her darkest films, Sparrows tells the tale of a band of orphans who escape from an orphan farm and cross a dangerous gator-infested swamp. A surprisingly moody slice of Southern Gothic from America’s Sweethear read more