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*Pickford and Thomas Meighan-M'LISS (1919)* *Banky and Valentino-THE EAGLE (1925)* *Renee Adoree and Ramon Novarro-1929* *Mary Brian and Fredric March-The Marriage Playground*

Wendy, Did I ever post this before? Far from the Saintly Maria of Metropolis! *Brigitte Helm-German Bombshell*

*Clara Bow with Fredric March-"Famous Peepers Laskey!"* *"Sailors Arms"*

*Jacqueline Logan-"Hug a Cub Today!"*

*Corinne Griffith-Tippy Toes*

*Jacqueline Logan and Richard Arlen in The Blood Ship-1927* *"Love On The Rocks"*

ugaarte, Happy Thanksgiving. Actually, a couple of those Turkey photos are new this year. I had only posted the Dorothy Sebastian/Gwen Lee previously. Hope that you will be around here more often from now on. *Constance Talmadge-"Little Miss Ritsy"* *Dolores Costello-Candle At Night* *Doris Kenyon-Pretty Creature*

Wendy, Here is one of your stills now Colorized. *Evelyn Brent-"Queen Evil!"*

Douglas Fairbanks *THE BLACK PIRATE (1926)* is coming out on Blu-Ray next month. So maybe TCM will run this new version in the future. The current DVD does not do justice to the original Technicolor process used for the film.The much more recent BFI restoration, which I assume that they are using as the basis for this release is supposed to be a dramatic improvement.

The great *Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Orchestra* are going to score Buster Keaton's *THE CAMERAMAN* live at the *2nd Annual TCM Classic Film Festival* in April. I sure wish that TCM would heir these guys to score Colleen Moore's *HER WILD OAT* so we could finally have a nicely restored *Colleen Moore* feature premier on TCM in the coming year. Also here we are another year in the books and still no *THE BIG PARADE* on DVD as long since promised. The same with *WINGS,* and I don't think TCM is running the Photoplay version in February either. Hope that I'm wrong, and that it is at least a new transfer from Paramount. Not the same old murky copy that TCM got stuck with a couple years ago.

The downfall of so many of the Silent Stars is very hard to figure in retrospect. Take Clara Bow for example. There was nothing whatsoever wrong with her voice. In my opinion her voice is better than Jean Harlow's. I think it was really the scandal sheets and not her voice that hastened the premature end to her career. John Gilbert's voice is just fine. It wasn't even remotely high-pitched as contemporary mythology would have us believe. I don't really think Garbo's voice was all that great personally, but she succeeded best in sound. Along with Ronald Colman who had been a giant Silent Star himself during the 20's.

Hey Jonas, Hope that you saw *THE VIKING* last night?

I'm sorry folks but Chapter 4 was a Clunker. Virtually unwatchable.When this series was first announced I was hoping that something spectacular was in the works. While the series started out with allot of promise, boy has it really gone downhill since than. I believe that the opportunity was there for something truly special to take shape and sadly this has fallen far short of any sort of greatness in my estimation. The editing is extremely choppy, and it seems to be getting steadily worse with each succeeding episode. Extending this thing to at least 10 chapters would have definitely been a bright idea.

*THE VIKING* was filmed in stunning Two-Color Technicolor. Don't miss it!

This film has not aired on TCM since the late 90's, and is not on DVD. The Two-Color Technicolor is often breathtaking. Great vintage scoring track as well. Pauline Starke is terrific as the lovely Lady Helga. Leroy Mason is dashing and handsome as the deposed prince. And Donald Crisp is virtually un-recognizable as the legendary Leif Ericson. Don't miss tonight's broadcast.

Wendy, I've had this Mary Brian photo in the My Pictures file for several weeks. I wasn't really that happy with it at the time.So I never posted. Mary Brian generally played the ultimate girl next door type character in most every film. What a Cutie. From Wendy in 1924's *PETER PAN,* to the straight laced Mary Brown in William Haines *BROWN OF HARVARD.* As the daughter of W. C, Fields In *RUNNING WILD.* She was very pretty and extremely wholesome. Mary isn't in the 1926 *BEAU GESTE* much, but her Isobel is stunningly beautiful. The betrothed of Ralph Forbes in the picture. Incidentally, don't forget the long awaited return of *THE VIKING* this evening on Silent Sunday Nights.

This weeks Silent Sunday feature *THE VIKING* tonight was filmed entirely in Two-Color Technicolor, and looks spectacular. Don't forget to tune in for this very rarely shown film. It is not currently available on DVD. *Pauline Starke-"Dreamy Viking"*

*Mary Brian-Miss Goody, Goody* *Betty Compson-A Rustle Of Silk*

*Renee Adoree as Fifi Lorraine in THE BLACKBIRD (1926)*

*Gwen Lee And Dorothy Sebastian-Pilgrims Pride* *Barbara Kent-"Well Basted"* *Raquel Torres-Blushing Bird!*

Ed, I think I have had *OLD HEIDELBERG* in my Top 10 for a long time. Great movie. Kind of makes you wonder all the more about Lubitsch lost Silents such as *KISS ME AGAIN (1925)* and *THE PATRIOT (1928).* On the other hand *THREE WOMEN* is not lost and is rarely seen. Same with *FORBIDDEN PARADISE* and the incomplete *SO THIS IS PARIS.* *Ramon Novarro as Prince Karl Heinrich*

Lynn, I'm not trying to be disrespectful. I could have just posted the link again, but that would mean going through the whole thread in order to find his comments. Allot of people probably wouldn't do this. That is why I posted just his portion here. There are at least a couple others I would like to quote as well. I haven't done so. Anyway, why should he mind? I don't know if Chris is even registered here or not? I just wanted other people's take on his comments.I'm sure that he's interested in them too.

There are no more Silents I believe until Sunday, well really early Monday morning with the return of *THE VIKING (1928)* The first All Two-Color Technicolor feature ever produced by MGM. The last time this film aired was probably in 1999 or 2000! So it is long overdue for another showing. If people don't like Black and White check it out. This is the best Two-Color Technicolor I have seen in any Silent film or early talkie. I can't thank Chuck Tabesh enough for scheduling this one again after over a decade.

I believe that it is *THROUGH THE BACK DOOR (1921).* One of my favorite Pickford features. It is a terrific story about a girl separated from her mother who later believes her to be dead. She returns home after the War. Working as maid in her Mothers home, thought the Mom is not aware of it.

Lo! Some pretty harsh criticism of the series from Unknown Video's Chuck Snowden: *Please note, this Post has been removed out of respect for the author until further notice. May return pending consent.* Link to Nitratevill thread: http://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=7630&start=60