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Ed, Who does it look like if not Garbo? I found this photo on my slave-drive, in a file marked "Garbo". It had been there since at least 2005. So I colorized it last night. Seems to be making a Hit here!

Karin, Say, I have quite a few Richard Barthelmess films. Including some pretty rare titles. *Great Vintage Poster for SCARLET SEAS With Beautiful Betty Compson.* *Barthelmess gave an Oscar Nominated Performance in the role of THE PATENT LEATHER KID (1927), With Molly O'Day (Sister of Sally O'Neil.)*

Karin, Again, I use more or less a combination of "Adobe Photo-Shop", and "Microsoft Picture It" on these photos. I enjoy coloring them, but it is a rather tedious and time consuming process. Especially, when you are as picky as I am. I have dozens of others on my slave-drive that I will probably never get to. Incidentally, are you still getting some movies from me? The Summer is almost over already, and I am frustrated. Here is a Photo of Corinne Griffith from "The Divine Lady" that I just colorized last week sometime. She looks so pretty. *Lovely Corinne Griffith in "The Divne Lady" (1929)*

Here are a couple of Beautiful Photo's of Mary Pickford that I recently colorized.

OK, This one probably should work well as a "Candid". What do you think?

*John Gilbert With Lillian Gish From King Vidor's LA BOHEME (MGM, 1926)* src=http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm358/gagman66/JohnGilbertAndLillianGishFromLeBohe.jpg> *Very nice publicity photo of Garbo And Gilbert Together.* *Gilbert, With Renee Adoree From THE BIG PARADE*

*John Gilbert With Lillian Gish From King Vidor's LA BOHEME (MGM, 1926)* src=http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm358/gagman66/JohnGilbertAndLillianGishFromLeBohe.jpg> *Very nice publicity photo of Garbo And Gilbert.* *Gilbert, With Renee Adoree From THE BIG PARADE*

Yes, this is indeed Bessie Love, before the Bob! Looking allot more like Mary Pickford here, with Her long and curly locks of hair!

Ed, No, I haven't gotten to A KING ON MAIN STREET yet. I am currently working on WHISPERING WIRES, and THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY. The music on the copy you found, was clearly dubbed in from some dreary drama wily-nilly, probably off an old Blackhawk tape, with Lee Erwin playing the Wurlitzer or something? Not intended for this film at all! Even when Bessie Love is dancing and playing the Ukulele, with a Jazz Band in the background, we still hear the same dreary Turkish harem music? Awful is right! Hey, I was surprised to learn that A KING ON MAIN STREET not only had some 2-strip Technicolor when first released, but purportedly this footage still exists somewhere? We should try to find out more about this.

Karin, Whoops! This vintage magazine cover painting of Motion Picture Classic reveals that Eleanor Boardman apparently had Emerald Green eyes, rather than Brown? Now I will need to go back and fix the earlier photo's that I had already colorized! Oh, well....

April, Sorry, I had forgotten that you said you had seen THE BIG PARADE some years ago. If you have not already done so, please vote for DVD releases for both THE BIG PARADE, and WHAT PRICE GLORY?, on the TCM Movie Data Base. They are supposed to share the info with all of the studios. TCM programmer just told me a few weeks ago that THE BIG PARADE is definitely coming out in 2009, but I have heard that each year since 2004, when the new restoration was completed, and we are still waiting for a TCM premier let alone a DVD. WHAT PRICE GLORY? meantime looks pretty good, but could stand use some additional work as well.

Bessie Love sure knew how to Charleston! She was the Hollywood Champ at at! Here is a intersting article from Photo-play Magazine in 1924.

April, Hey, I'm so glad that you finally watched WHAT PRICE GLORY? I am so pleased after all these months. While I love the film myself, I must tell you that some of the people I know just hated this movie after their having seen King Vidor's THE BIG PARADE before-hand. I don't kniow why, but they just did not like it at all by comparrison? In this case, you have actually seen WHAT PRICE GLORY?, first, so I will be quite interested to see what you think of THE BIG PARADE afterward? WHAT PRICE GLORY?, is definitely not as good as THE BIG PARADE, but than very few films are. So now, When do you think you might be able to fit THE BIG PARADE into your busy schedule??? Anytime soon? *The following Moved over here from another thread I started a few weeks ago.* Just a little taste of Raoul Walsh Classic World War 1 drama WHAT PRICE GLORY? Some capture still's from my DVD-R of the film. It's a shame you can't hear the Erno-Rapee-Lew Pollack Fox-Movie-tone score with the images. Just fabulous! Including "Charmaine"! King Vidor had actually planned to make WHAT PRICE GLORY?, in late 1924 at MGM. When He discovered that Fox had already snapped up the rights. So Vidor produced THE BIG PARADE instead. Ironically, By the time WHAT PRICE GLORY? was finally released in late 1926, it had become Fox's attempt to try an top THE BIG PARADE. WHAT PRICE GLORY? was not able to match the THE BIG PARADE'S unprecedented level of success. However, it was still one of the biggest, and most popular films of the second half of the 1920's. Making Major Stars of both Victor McLaglen, and Delores Del Rio. Edmund Lowe was already a well established Star by this time. WHAT PRICE GLORY is an awesome film! One of my favorite Silent's. Very different from THE BIG PARADE, even though the story was written by the same guy, one "Lawrence Stallings"! It is not as good as THE BIG PARADE, but then what is? WHAT PRICE GLORY? had been a huge hit on the Stage in 1923-24. McLaglen and Lowe in the rolls of "Captain Flagg" and "Sergeant Quirt" are both hilarious, as they constantly bicker back and forth among each other. In the early part of the picture, Quirt repeatedly steals all of Flagg's Woman, including a saucy Phyllis Haver in a guest part as the shameless seductress "Shanghai Mabel". She of the much ogled backside. Picking up stray Marines at the drop of a handbag! Haver is always funny and is a genuine hoot here! She should have been in more of the picture though. There was plenty of room for her to stick around for awhile. The beauteous melody "Charmaine" written expressly for the films original release score, by the prolific composing duo of Erno Rapee', and Lew Pollack, went on to become a number one hit record, with lyrics added for Guy Lombardo, & His Royal Canadians in 1927.

Karin, Not a very good photo of Eleanor Boardman, who I have seen in several films other films besides THE CROWD. She is very pretty in SOULS FOR SALE (1923), and King Vidor's WINE OF YOUTH (1924). A very fine actress, she is great in TELL IT TO THE MARINES. Here is a photo that I colorized of Eleanor apparently taken during the production of Frank Borzage's THE CIRCLE (1925)?

calvinnme, The version TCM runs of A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS is more or less the Thames Silents one from 1984, but without the Thames production credits. It's interesting that we hear the MGM Lion Roar, then it cut's to the Carl Davis score, even though the music credits read Dr. William Axt. The ending Thames credits, including Davis name were also removed. Some of them are still on the MGM Laser-disc release though. The film will probably need to be re-mastered some for a DVD release, even though the Thames print is actually quite good, especially for a 1984 transfer. I also have this film from ARTE network in Europe with the Axt-Mendoza score, and the print might be a little more recent transfer? Oddly enough, the print that actually has the Axt-Mendoza score, does not list their names, or anyones for the musical credits. if you look closely, one of the primary sub-plots that is more than just slightly inferred is Diana (Garbo), Miscarries, after her final tryst with Neville (Gilbert). That is why She was in the Hospital to begin with. After losing their Child (which she has kept from him), Diana subsequently, loses the will to live. The flowers in the room, Constance remarking that "In Three months We will have been married a whole year" to Neville, The title-card from Louis Stone's character remarking "You Mean That You Didn't Know?" Diana's reaction to the flowers, It's all there an rather easy to figure out what's really going on.

Beautiful Blue Eyed Blond Laura La Plante rose to fame in Clarence Brown's BUTTERFLY (Universal, 1924), with Norman Kerry, and Margaret Livingston. This film still exists and was recently restored by UCLA Film And Television Archive. Laura was a gifted actress equally adept at drama as Comedy. One of her best roles, was in Clarence Brown's acclaimed drama SMOULDERING FIRES (1925). Laura was often paired with Reginald Denny at Universal, and the two formed a popular comic team in films such as SKINNERS DRESS SUIT (1926). Today, La Plante is probably best known for Paul Leni's 1927 Comedy-thriller THE CAT AND THE CANARY. She also Starred in the Original big sreen adaption of SHOW BOAT which was still mostly a Silent, in 1929.

OK, Here's another one folks. This Silent film actress is very pretty, but who is She? I can't tell? Does anybody else have any ideas as to Her identity?

So tell me please, does it count that I have been tortured all Summer long by Miss Goddess waiting for her to watch and comment on Raoul Walsh WHAT PRICE GLORY? If not, it sure should???

calvinnme, Yes, there are several services that will allow you to download video's from Youtube. I have used a couple of these, though not very often. Still I don't know how the video's are uploaded in the first place?

calvinnme, Hey, I have never seen either of these clips before. Thanks for posting. I am not a youtube member as of yet, I was wondering what one does to post there? Are these Flash videos, AVI, or what is the format they use? Do they accept several formats? How does it work? Do you know?

calvinnme, I have THE PRIMITIVE LOVER, as well as A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS, THE DUCHESS OF BUFFALO, and a few other Constance Talmadge comedies. She was very funny, and Marion Davies seemed to later adopt her humous style somewhat. They also looked quite a bit alike, Connie rocketed to fame in the roll of 'The Mountain Girl" in D. W. Griffith's epic INTOLERANCE (1916). I have a few more Norma Talmadge features than Constance, but other than KIKI (1926) with Ronald Coleman, I can't think of the titles? Here are a couple of photo's I colorized recently of the famed Talmadge Sisters. Very Stunning Portrait of Norma Talmadge "The Drama Queen" of the Sister's. Decent portrait of Constance Talmadge The Comedienne of the two. Connie was actually much prettier than she appears in this photo.

mark, Here's the problem. It's because young adults grew up on this crap, and they actually think it's good television! They literally have no basis of comparison to draw from, what's even ****, is that many of them don't seem to want any!

ugaarte, Wendy, Etc, I am struggling to locate the William S. Hart posters, but I'll find them eventually. I have lot more Tom Mix stuff as well. Here are three pretty good pieces.

Wendy, I had Hart's THE TOLL GATE (1920) in Super 8 Millimeter from Blackhawk, but not TUMBLEWEEDS. The Tom Mix titles I had were IN THE DAYS OF THE THUNDERING HERD, JUST TONY, and RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. BLackhawk had a few others, including THE GREAT K &A TRAIN ROBBERY, and SKY HIGH, but those are the only titles I remember. Hard to believe that there are no Mix Western's on DVD. He was such a giant name. Most of the Bill Hart poster's are probably from films released during the teens, and not the 20's? So I should put those in a different thread.