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*"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?
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*Farewell My Philip! Colleen Moore, And Gary Cooper From Lilac Time (1928)*
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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*
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*Esther Ralston-Cat-Nip!!!*
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*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)*
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*Charles Farrell And Janet Gaynor From 1929*
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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.
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*Betty Compson-Fine Profile*
*Esther Ralston-Cat-Nip!!! (To The Fella's!)*
*Mary Brian-Mighty Fair Maiden*
*Mary Brian-Great Big Baby Blues!*
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*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)*
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*Farrell, and Gaynor-A Very Striking Couple!*
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*Charles Farrell, and Janet Gaynor-"The Sweethearts".*
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Kate,
*Your Perfect On-Screen Couple. The Much Too Handsome Charles Farrell, and the very Beautiful Janet Gaynor.*
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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!
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Some captures from the TCM France Presentation of Henry King's THE WHITE SISTER, which was broadcast back in 2006:
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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.
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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?
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Unfortunately, No. Hedy passed away back in 1999, or 2000 I believe?
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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*
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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.
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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!*
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Lynn,
Yes, I already reported on this a few days ago in several threads. Very exciting news! Maybe the annual event will return after all? I sure hope so! And don't forget THE MOCKERY either, which James Schafer had previously announced some months ago, that He was busy scoring.
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Wendy,
I have both Colleen Moore's LITTLE ORPHANT' ANNIE, and Raymond Griffith's PATHS TO PARADISE with Betty Compson. Unfortunately, neither film is complete. However, I recently heard something to the effect that the missing last reel of PATHS TO PARADISE has been found.
Here is a unusual photo of Renee Adoree from 1923 with Blonde Hair! Apparently, she is wearing some sort of costume in this picture? And already they are sticking her in baggy outfits to hide her voluptuous figure it seems? I'll bet that she wasn't happy about this matter?
*Renee Adoree-What sort of Costume Is This???*
Or maybe it is supposed to look like This?:
*Renee Adoree- As an Irish Tom-Boy?*
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coffeedan,
TCM will certainly be running BARDLEYS THE MAGNIFICENT, but I have no idea how soon this will be. As far as I know, Rodney Sauer and Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra are still scheduled to record the score in January. You have to figure that at the very earliest we will see this on TCM would be the late Spring, but it could easily slip into the Summer months, or even the Fall. Flicker Alley is notorious for pushing back it's planned DVD releases several months as well.
Already we are assured of TCM premier's of two Warner's owned Silents in 2009. Henry King's THE WHITE SISTER (Metro, 1923) with Lillian Gish, and Ronald Coleman, and Benjamin Christianson's THE MOCKERY (MGM, 1927) with Lon Chaney.
Having seen them both, I can say that while I like BARDLEYS, I still prefer THE COSSACKS, which I know exists in an excellent print. Again, I am more concerned with getting THE BIG PARADE back on TCM, not to mention DVD, then I am BARDELYS.
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Ed,
Say, I sent you an Animated Christmas Card earlier today, Did you receive it? I sent several cards, but I am not sure it anyone got them?
Yes, TOL'ABLE DAVID is one of the finest American films of the early 20's. Did you see the version with the Robert Israel score?
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I think TCM has aired the sound re-make of THE WHITE SISTER, but I am not sure? I believe I have a recording I got from someone, which I have never watched? I'll see if I can find it, and if there is a TCM Logo during the broadcast?
Henry King was among the great directors of the Silent Era, with such notable features as TOL'ABLE DAVID (1921), STELLA DALLAS (1925), and THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH (1926) to his credit. I would love to know if Warner's has a nice 35 Millimeter print of STELLA DALLAS stashed away in the vaults someplace? This is quite an important film.
ANNIE LAURIE (1927)
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Ed,
Did you get the package that I sent you earlier in the week?