Showing posts with label Emil Jannings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emil Jannings. Show all posts
Thursday, November 17, 2011

A Pola Negri Double Feature: The Eyes Of The Mummy And Carmen

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Before Marlene Dietrich, before Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren or even Greta Garbo, Polish film star Pola Negri made the journey from Europe t...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

And While We're At It, Three Looks At Richard Barthelmess

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Richard Barthelmess was born in 1895 to a theatrical family and was working on the stage when a friend of his mother, film star Alla Nazimov...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

A Musical Interlude: Marlene Dietrich In The Blue Angel

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While I was working on my essay about the best picture of 1929-30, it occurred to me I've written about all of the nominees at some leng...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

G.W. Pabst, Emil Jannings, Louise Brooks ... And Quentin Tarantino

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Katie-Bar-The-Door and I just got back from a Thursday afternoon matinee (which somehow sounds dirty, but isn't)—Quentin Tarantino's...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

The Katie Award Nominees For 1928-29

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If the Academy was in the ballpark the first year it handed out Oscars, it completely blew it the next. This year the winners were chosen b...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Must-See Movies Of 1927-28

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Director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich has called 1928 the greatest year in the history of movies, which is definitely saying somethi...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards For 1927-28

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PICTURE: Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (prod. William Fox) ACTOR: Lon Chaney ( Laugh, Clown, Laugh ) ACTRESS: Mary Pickford ( My Best Gi...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Best Actor Of The Silent Era: Charles Chaplin (Part One: "And The Nominees Are ...")

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Decades after the demise of silent movies, one star from that era remains instantly recognizable: Charles Chaplin. And when it came time to...
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