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Silent Movie Star Mini Biography: Pola Negri
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 4, 2013
Still causing controversy after all these years… Pola Negri (1897-1987) Country of birth: Poland Birth name: Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec The basics: Raised in poverty, Pola Negri was a trained ballerina whose dancing career was ended by tuberculosis. Negri tried her hand at acting, made her fi read more
MARY OF THE MOVIES: MARY FULLER, Part Two
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 4, 2013
Reblogged from 11 East 14th Street: "'Do you care for photoplays, other than your own? Seeing them, I mean?' I stammered. "'Yes, indeed. I am an inveterate photoplay fan. I think every player who has any ambition at all, any desire to get ahead in his work, should spend as much or more time seei read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: Motion Picture Directing by Peter Milne
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 3, 2013
Nice embossed cover… So far the 1922 motion picture correspondence course has covered acting and screenwriting. But what about that man (or woman!) with the megaphone? Directing movies also has its own volume in the series and it by far my favorite. The writing is smart and flippant, just the read more
Acting Like Adults, Young April Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 3, 2013
Rudolph Schildkraut’s man-child king discovers his equally childish son (Joseph Schildkraut) locked in battle with his despotic brother. What’s a king to do? Royally kick him, naturally. And then bap him on the head with the ancestral crown. I love the way this scene is performed. It&# read more
The Little American (1917) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 1, 2013
Mary Pickford joins the war effort in this rare collaboration with director Cecil B. DeMille. One woman, two armies, oh dear. Pickford plays Angela, an American girl so patriotic that she contrived to be born on Independence Day. However, she is in favor of outsourcing her love life: her two suitor read more
Silent Movie Star Mini Biography: Colleen Moore
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Mar 1, 2013
A true twenties icon Colleen Moore (1899-1988) Country of birth: USA Birth name: Kathleen Morrison The basics: Colleen Moore was a movie-struck teenager when her uncle helped D.W. Griffith get Birth of a Nation and Intolerance past the Chicago censors. In exchange, he asked for a six-month contract read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: Photoplay Writing by William Lord Wright
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 28, 2013
That familiar red cover Another day, another book from the New York Institute of Photography’s correspondence course for all would-be participants in the silent film industry. This 1922 book explains how to write for the movies. I got my copy from Alibris. It was actually fairly cheap. You ca read more
John Barrymore: Nyanyanya! A Beloved Rogue Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 28, 2013
This GIF sums up everything I like about John Barrymore’s swashbucklers. He was an incredibly handsome leading man and respected actor who was not afraid to act in a manner befitting a Wascally Wabbit. Why have a leading man and comedy relief when your leading man is the comedy relief? What read more
Silent Movie Star Mini Biography: Joseph Schildkraut
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 28, 2013
He will always be Chevalier de Vaudrey to me… Joseph Schildkraut (1896-1964) Country of birth: Austria The basics: Son of esteemed actor Rudolph Schildkraut, a star of the Yiddish stage. Joseph Schildkraut was a star of both stage and screen. He made several films in Austria before he was cas read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: Screen Acting by Inez and Helen Klumph
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 27, 2013
My copy, somewhat worn but in good shape overall. And now for something a little different. This book was published in 1922 as a textbook in a correspondence course from the New York Institute of Photography. The series promised to teach the reader everything they needed to know in order to join th read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: Conrad Veidt on Screen by John T. Soister
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 26, 2013
My copy, excuse the glare, the cover is very shiny. There is only one thing I love more than a good silent movie: A good Conrad Veidt movie. And if it is a Conrad Veidt silent movie… This book was a gift from a friend who understood my unwavering fangirliness when it comes to all things Veidt read more
About Silent Movies #3: My first 5 silent movies
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 26, 2013
So, what kind of silent movie fan are you? In my experience, they usually come in three varieties: Fortunate folks whose friends or family were lovers of the silent cinema and who introduced it to them when they were young. And, of course, the viewers who remember silent cinema from the first go-r read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: The Parade’s Gone By… by Kevin Brownlow
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 26, 2013
My paperback copy. I dearly long for hardcover. This was the first book on silent cinema that I ever bought. I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction. Film historian Kevin Brownlow has proven to be one of the strongest advocates for silent cinema and, as it turns out, he is a heckuva w read more
Theme Month! March 2013: I Loved a German
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 25, 2013
Welcome to the very first Theme Month here at Movies, Silently! The theme for March 2013 is “I Loved a German” Throughout the month, I am going to review movies that involve Germans in love. We will be looking at propaganda pictures, dramas, comedies and maybe an adventure or two. A ra read more
What gender were you again? Barbed Wire (1927) Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 25, 2013
One of the early, happy scenes from Barbed Wire. Pola Negri is trying to name her calf but has to change her mind midway when she discovers that her boy is a girl. Cute scene. I love that saucy look Pola gets. Harkens back to her old Lubitsch days in Germany. read more
Silent Movie Myth #3: The Firsts
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 24, 2013
Those discount trivia books that litter the shelves of chain bookstores have a lot to answer for. They state with great confidence that The Jazz Singer was the first sound movie, The Birth of a Nation was the first feature film, that The Great Train Robbery was the first film with a story… Ac read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: Classics of the Silent Screen by Joe Franklin
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 24, 2013
Cover of my used copy Ok, first thing’s first. The “research assistant” for this book was esteemed silent film historian William K. Everson so we know that we are in good hands. This is yet another long out of print book that I added to my collection. It’s pretty easy to fin read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: Silent Films 1877-1996 by Robert K. Klepper
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 23, 2013
Big thick book-o-reviews This book was a bit of an investment but I am overall happy with it. It is a big, big, BIG guidebook to silent films arranged chronologically and then alphabetically by the late Richard K. Klepper. What is it?: The book is 500+ pages of silent movie reviews, 646 in total. E read more
Physical Music, Why Change Your Wife Animated GIF
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 23, 2013
Animated GIF from the silent movie Why Change Your Wife, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Poor Thomas Meighan just wants to dance with his wife, Gloria Swanson. What a sleaze! Oh, and the horrid physical music he is listening to? The foxtrot. read more
Silent Movie Bookshelf: From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 23, 2013
My somewhat tattered copy A psychological history of the German Film, if you want the full subtitle. I love silent German cinema; I admire its fierce creativity and its willingness to take crazy risks. And there is also, of course, Conrad Veidt. But enough of that. How is the book? Well, the title read more