In her honor, I am adapting a variant of a meme floating around the movie blogosphere ("meme"—I'm not even sure what that is unless it's plural and has the word "screaming" in front of it): Twenty Favorite Movie Subjects I Have Previously Mentioned In My Blog So Far.
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford
Frances Marion (the Silent Era's best screenwriter)
German Expressionism (here, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
Charles Chaplin
Lillian Gish
Buster Keaton
Greta Garbo
Harold Lloyd
Lon Chaney
Clara Bow
The Joan Crawford/Anita Page Flapper Trilogy (throw in Dorothy Sebastian on the left and you've got the cast of Our Dancing Daughters)
Louise Brooks (wallpaper courtesy of Sylvie at Doctor Macro's High Quality Movie Scans)
Ronald Colman (with Lili Damita)
The Marx Brothers
Marie Dressler
James Cagney
pre-Code permissiveness (here, in the person of Joan Blondell)
The movies of René Clair (that's the opera scene from Le Million)
Sex Symbols (in this case, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow)
and most importantly, Katie-Bar-The-Door
Have I forgotten anyone?
Twenty Favorite Movie Subjects I Have Previously Mentioned In My Blog So Far is -- especially in your hands -- a most excellent meme indeed! And nope, I don't think you've left anyone out but -- as Mr. Mule can attest -- I could be wrong!
ReplyDeleteThere can never be enough Brooksie!
ReplyDeleteNo shit, Sherlock
You know, although the rumour mills [and my autobiography] lend me an air of licentiousness, at least in my youth, I'd like to dispel that myth.
But I can't. I see your photos and just want to gobble them up. Each and every one.
Except Marie Dressler.
and that loathsome Lon Chaney. . . .
Let me leave you with this thought:
There can never be enough Brooksie!
Actually, Marie Dressler has one of my favorite movie faces of all time ...
ReplyDeleteAww, I'm famous!
ReplyDeleteDropping by to say that your collection of talents has made my head explode. Bravo!
you silly monkey man -- I don't dispute her movie face!
ReplyDeleteBut surely not even a behatted, bespactled buffoon would want to eat up Marie Dressler. . . . .
unless you're
odd.
Are you odd?
Not odd, but definitely a bit tetched.
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