Apropos of nothing is a photograph I stumbled over at "Pluck You, Too," a website devoted to—get this—movies. Imagine that. But I thought it might give you an idea how popular Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks were back in their heyday ...
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
3 comments:
Click to enlarge, as they say. Just amazing.
Click to enlarge, as they say
That's what I told her . . . .
wow. what a cheap joke
I like Chaplin and Fairbanks as much as the next general, but I wonder why, exactly, they're gracing these pages when Jean Harlow is not.
Jean.
Harlow.
start yer countdown. . . .
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