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Annie, Wow! After all this time, the thread is still going Strong here! Maybe if we Spice things up a little bit, they will finally run THE BIG PARADE again???

Well, it's great to see TELL IT TO THE MARINES finally running again. This picture hasn't been shown since at least 2006, and probably 2005? To bad that they can't schedule the broadcast at a half way decent hour. More Chaplin, and Lloyd Birthday Tributes, which are slated most every year. Including Lloyd's 1964 Compilation THE FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE, which is not on DVD, and TCM has only aired maybe once or twice in the past. The debut of Victor Seastrom's THE PHANTOM CHARIOT, also known as THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT is certainly a big surprise! Far as I know this movie has yet to be released on DVD here in the States? It is in print over in Sweden though. I guess this answers questions concerning the premiers of THE MOCKERY, BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT, and THE WHITE SISTER. Not to mention the new restoration of THE BIG PARADE. We will not be seeing any of those until at least May, at the very earliest. Most will probably slip into the Summer or Fall. I wonder if any of the scores are even completed yet? By the way, BARDELYS is being screened at the Kansas City Silent film Festival in March, and Rodney Sauer and Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide laugh accompaniment for that event. They were scheduled to record their new score for the pictuure sometime this month, but that was the last I heard. This was probably back in late October. No real updates since that time.

*Charles Farrell, and Janet Gaynor From LUCKY STAR (1929)*

*Marion Davies In Nightgown* *Marion Davies-Very Glitzy!* *Constance Talmadge, Giant Eyes* *Clara Bow-Heavenly Gaze* *Bebe Daniels-One Saucy Senorita!*

Angie, Actually, I rather goofed on the LILAC TIME still. I failed all together to note the ribbon in Colleen's hair. However, I caught it later on and have fixed this portion, and reposted the photo. Here are several more that I had not posted before. I know that you will love all the Clara Stuff I worked on this past weekend. In the first one, I wish I could get the skin-tone of the legs to match the upper-body, but it doesn't seem to be possible. Other than that it looks really good, but what sort of an outfit is that? I know that you really liked HULA. I have several excelent quality stills from this feature now. I thought colorizing them would be very difficult due to all the plants and such, but it wasn't that tough really. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the results. Blast! The Portrait in the Feather-Boa still needs work! Now I can see that the hair has to much color, and it crawls off into the air! Not good. *Clara Bow, What on Earth?* *Clara Bow, She Be Hula! From HULA (Paramount, 1927)* *Clara Bow, Beachy-Keen!* *Clara Bow-Heavenly Gaze* *Clara Bow, Bare Shoulders* *Clara Bow, Skimpy Party Dress* *Marion Davies In Nightgown* *Marion Davies-Very Glitzy!* *Constance Talmadge, Giant Eyes* *Bebe Daniels-One Saucy Senorita!*

Ed, Did you get the package that I sent you earlier in the week?

*"Farewell My Philip!" Colleen Moore, And Gary Cooper From LILAC TIME (1928)* A couple weeks ago, I confirmed that the original synchronized track of this picture has been found, and restored! That was certainly big news, because the audio at one time was considered to be lost. However, I do not know about the film itself, rather it has has undergone much restoration? I hope it has. If the surviving elements have been restored too, there is no reason that they can not show this picture on TCM once transferred to broadcast format. I assume that this hasn't been done yet?

*Farewell My Philip! Colleen Moore, And Gary Cooper From Lilac Time (1928)*

Kate, As I mentioned several months ago, Milestone is supposed to be releasing POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL, THE HOODLUM, and the brand new restoration of SPARROWS. I say they are supposed to be. In any event, that doesn't sound like much to me, so I hope there is quite a bit more. Restored prints of REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, THE LITTLE AMERICAN, JOHANNA ENLISTS, POLLYANNA, DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDON HALL, and especially LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY would be wonderful. *Mary Pickford Dancing Waif, From Tess Of The Storm Country (1922)* *Mary And The Orphans, From Sparrows (1926)* *Mary Pickford-The Queen*

*Esther Ralston-Cat-Nip!!!*

*Betty Compson-Fine Profile* *Mary Brian-Great Big Baby Blues!* *Mary Brian-Mighty Fair Maiden* *Carmel Myers, Gypsy Deadlin'* *Vilma Banky-Sweet Innocent Face* *June Collyer, Ever So Glamorous!* *Laura La Plante-Magic Dimples! Much To Cute!* *Esther Ralston-Cat-Nip!!!* *Eleanor Boardman, Elegant And Classy!* *Lina Basquette From THE NOOSE (1928)*

*Charles Farrell And Janet Gaynor From 1929*

Angie, I have seen LUCKY STAR before. Again, this film was completely lost until 1991, when a print was uncovered in the Netherlands. Originally the final reel had spoken dialogue, but that does not survive. Which is just as well. While I am very impressed with the restored print on the DVD, Jorge's makeshift all Tango score was much, much better than Chris Caliendo's disappointing work here. Caliendo fails miserably to bring out the unique qualities of the film, and set up strong themes for the individual characters in the movie. By contrast his score to CITY GIRL is allot more pleasing to the ear, but nowhere near as good as my own score that I dubbed for the film last year. And I was never even remotely satisfied with all of my selections either. Only a portion of it. Caliendo seems to be a hit or miss guy with his scores. I am really surprised that CITY GIRL, and LUCKY STAR,. are both in so much better shape than either SEVENTH HEAVEN, and STREET ANGEL? Personally I, I think the transfers of those two films were made several years earlier. We know for a fact that 7TH HEAVEN set on the shelf for 5 years after the commentary track was recorded un-released.

*Betty Compson-Fine Profile* *Esther Ralston-Cat-Nip!!! (To The Fella's!)* *Mary Brian-Mighty Fair Maiden* *Mary Brian-Great Big Baby Blues!* http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm358/gagman66/VilmaBankyInnocentFace.jpg> *Vilma Banky-Sweet Innocent Face* *Carmel Myers, Gypsy Dealin'* *Eleanor Boardman, Elegant And Classy!* *Laura La Plante-Magic Dimples! Much To Cute!* *Lina Basquette From THE NOOSE (1928)*

*Farrell, and Gaynor-A Very Striking Couple!*

*Charles Farrell, and Janet Gaynor-"The Sweethearts".*

Kate, *Your Perfect On-Screen Couple. The Much Too Handsome Charles Farrell, and the very Beautiful Janet Gaynor.*

Jorge, It's possible, but PEG 'O MY HEART probably doesn't have big enough names in the cast? I would think a really good possibility would be TWELVE MILES OUT. Plus they seem to have anything with Joan Crawford scored, even when it isn't very good like THE BOOB (1926), and SPRING FEVER (1927). At any rate, I still hope it's Colleen Moore's HER WILD OAT!

Some captures from the TCM France Presentation of Henry King's THE WHITE SISTER, which was broadcast back in 2006:

alix1929, Scottman, Everyone, Well, it's already been announced that we will be getting THE WHITE SISTER, along with THE MOCKERY and BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT. In meantime, did anyone else watch Lois Webber's THE BLOT (1921) last night, or rather this morning? Far as I know, this was another TCM Premier? I sure wasn't expecting much, but what we got was a nicely restored Thames Silents version with a solid Jim Parker score. The only trouble was that either the second half of the film was missing, or the second half of the story was a completely different movie that we did not get to see? Does anyone know? In truth, I liked Miss Webber direction at this time much better than I do D. W. Griffith's! The film was not saturated with an over abundance of descriptive narrative type title-cards, instead of conversational ones, like most of Griffith's movies seem to be. Plus there was some wonderful camera work, and fine cinematic touches throughout. Good cast too. Mr. Parker is very underrated, He Composed a Fantastic score for the Photo-play version of Harold Lloyd's GIRL SHY, though that version is not the one currently on DVD. The New-Line release has a Robert Israel score instead. Very good, and I love Robert, but in this case I just prefer the Parker score.

Mike, Lordy Mama!!!! Woof. Woof! Well, in Frank Capra's THE YOUNGER GENERATION (Columbia, 1929), Lina Basquette seems allot more svelte than she appears in THE GODLESS GIRL? She also looks quite a bit more attractive in the film too. You might be surprised in-fact? I have a couple of posters to SHOW FOLKS, that I don't think I have posted here yet? I will see if I can find them or not?

Unfortunately, No. Hedy passed away back in 1999, or 2000 I believe?

Annie, This fun photo is supposed to be Renee Adoree from 1923 with Blonde hair! I have never seen her as a Blonde before. Still I have never questioned that this is her though. She is just so darn Cute here! *Renee Adoree-In Costume as an Irish Tom-Boy. How Adorable!* And here is Connie Talmadge. I didn't remember that Thalberg had planned to Mary Her? That's an very interesting story. *Constance Talmadge-Glamorous Portrait*

Say, look what I stumbled upon here, Some spooky tinted stills from Tod Browning's legendary Vampire yarn the lost LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT! These are very sharp and clear, and sure make you wish that a print would turn up someplace. The Erie Blue of the evening sets the foreboding mood.

musicalnovelty, Sorry for mixing up Nena with Lina. I simply took the caption as gospel when I saw it that this was Lina Basquette. I didn't look into it any futher. How was SHOW FOLKS by the way? I would love to see this movie! OK, here is another one. This is supposed to be Renee Adoree with Blonde hair! I have never seen her as a Blonde before. Have never questioned that this is her though. She is just so darn Cute! *Renee Adoree-In Costume as an Irish Tom-Boy. How Adorable!*