SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Janet Gaynor in SEVENTH HEAVEN. Margaret Sullivan in LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? To make this match the top image, you have to mentally Photoshop Alan Hale out, which is usually not a bad idea, although here he is essential to the plot so it might create problems later. But the set-up is identical: the attic home with [...]
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Sweet country girl Nancy (Janet Gaynor) is left at the altar by George, whom she's known since childhood. Nancy goes looking for George in the big city, and this being MGM movie land, she ends up at the New York City apartments of writer Malcolm Niles (Robert Montgomery) and his publisher and next-door neighbor, Robert Hanson (Franchot Tone). How lucky can a girl get? Before you know it, Nancy is cooking...
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Object of our affection : Janet Gaynor , actress. - A superstar of the silent screen, she was the first Academy Award winning Best Actress, for the films Sunrise , Seventh Heaven and Street Angel . She held the record as the youngest Best Actress winner for almost sixty years. - She successfully made the transfer to sound and was Oscar nominated again for the original film version of A Star is Born...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Sally Eilers in Bad Girl, Frank Borzage, 1930, from the "Murnau, Borzage and Fox" box setFox's staggering John Ford box last year was a euphoric shock for cinephiles who were used to the major studios treating the canon with, at...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
News: Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Murnau, Borzage and Fox DVD Collection on 9th December 2008 priced at $239.98 SRP. This 12-film collection aims to capture the iconic careers of directors F.W. Murnau and Frank Borzage...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Today is Friday, May 16, the 137th day of 2008. There are 229 days left in the year.
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Today is Friday, May 16, the 137th day of 2008. There are 229 days left in the year.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Today is Friday, May 16, the 137th day of 2008. There are 229 days left in the year.
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
There's a new film book out that should be a feast for the eyes: ADRIAN: SILVER SCREEN TO CUSTOM LABEL by Christian Esquevin. Adrian , as film fans will be aware, was a great MGM costume designer whose best-known work includes THE WOMEN, WATERLOO BRIDGE, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, ZIEGFELD GIRL, and even THE WIZARD OF OZ. He was married to actress Janet Gaynor. I own another book on Adrian's career, GOWNS...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
screened Monday, March 31 2008 on VHS in Jersey City, NJ TSPDT rank #854 IMDb Wiki Frank Borzage’s most celebrated film (winner of three of the inagural Academ Awards, including best director and actress) envisions romantic love as the ultimate absolution for a sewer cleaner (Charles Farrell) and a prostitute (Janet Gaynor). Borzage was one of the [...]
Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Here's one writer who can stay on strike for good, as far as the Siren is concerned: the one who decided it would be a kick to mock Sunrise during the Oscars. It takes some kind of four-door, chrome-plated, 400-horsepower nerve to diss that movie for being soooo old-fashioned and simple ("the Woman from the City"! tee-hee!) when it's visually and thematically more sophisticated than a whopping majority...
The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Sarah Churchwell has written a thought-provoking article over at Comment is Free about how women lose out at the Oscars unless it's ring-fenced as a woman's award. In 1928, at the first Academy Awards, there were 15 categories. Men won...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
The 80th annual Academy Awards ceremony has escaped a labor dispute and will take place as planned Sunday evening in Hollywood.
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
If Ellen Page (”Juno”) wins best actress, she’ll set a new record for youngest actress. Who holds that distinction today? Your options: Joan Fontaine (”Suspicion”), Janet Gaynor (”Seventh Heaven,” “Street Angel,” “Sunrise”), Audrey Hepburn, (”Roman Holiday”), Marlee Matlin (”Children of a Lesser God”). Quiz from The Envelope, which has the answer.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Oscar-nominations time being just around the corner (Jan. 22), I did a bit of research so you wouldn't have to be bothered with it yourself.
