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Monday's question: In what Clint Eastwood movie did the stuntmen outnumber the actors, 87 to 37?
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Greetings, everybody! I have spent most of this morning perusing another old issue of Liberty for the week ending June 30, 1928. Lots of movie-related material in this issue -- most interesting is "Please May I Bob My Hair?" by Mary Pickford, in which she reacts to the public outcry from a seemingly innocent statement that she was considering a change of hairstyle. The article is accompanied by several pictures showing Mary in a short blonde wig "posed especially for Liberty", a composite photograph showing her in a modern bob by a French hairdresser, and another exclusive pose showing her with her hair pulled back and tucked under (at least, this is how it looks).
Here is just one of her many reasons for shearing her locks: "I feel that I am too small a person to wear as much hair as I have. It is thick and massive and, if allowed to have its own way, will fall below my waist. I have learned to dress it fairly skillfully, and compress it into a comparatively small coil at the back of my neck, but even then it seems out of scale, too great for a small person to carry around. This seems to me an unanswerable argument."
But what really caught my eye was film critic Frederick James Smith's most anticipated films for the coming 1928-29 season. The biggest events, he said, include:
--THE WEDDING MARCH, because Eric von Stroheim made it
--Gloria Swanson's next, because Eric will direct it
--F. W. Murnau's FOUR DEVILS
--THE CANARY MURDER CASE, because William Powell will play Philo Vance
--Its rival crime thriller, THE BELLAMY TRIAL, because you will see a duplicate of our favorite international character, Brother Willie
--OCTOBER, made by S. M. Eisenstein, director of THE CRUSER POTEMKIN, and based on John Reed's Ten Days That Shook The World
--The coming Garbo-Gilbert smoker, THE CARNIVAL OF LIFE
--Ronald Colman's appearance in A TALE OF TWO CITIES
--Lillian Gish's THE MIRACLE
--Cecil De Mille's THE GODLESS GIRL
--Emil Jannings' THE PATRIOT, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and anything else Herr Jannings may do during the year
Don't know about you, but I like to know what became of the Garbo-Gilbert picture and THE MIRACLE. I'm also surprised at Ronald Colman trying to take on Dickens at this early date. My gosh, the things that might have been!
Anyhow, let's get on to this week's movie trivia . . .
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Friday's question: Of what actor did D. W. Griffith say, "He has such verve. We can use his body"?
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No, I think this is THE RED KIMONA (1925), which was shown on TCM not too long ago. The writer and producer of the tilm, Dorothy Davenport Reid (or Mrs. Wallace Reid, as she was often billed), explained that it was based on actual events, "narrating" the real circumstances of the story at the beginning and end -- an unusual convention for a silent film.
As best I remember, It told the story of a woman escaping from a life of prostitution, but unable to shake the stigma of her past life. One man sticks by her, and he later enlists in the war, and finds her after he comes back.
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Thursday's question: What did the Balaban & Katz chain start doing in their movie theaters in 1928 that was soon imitated by every movie theater in the country to this day?
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You did it again, vallo! 'Way to go!
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Wednesday's question: What film noir classic centers around a payroll robbery at the Prentiss Hat Factory?
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Wrightsville is right, vallo13! Good job!
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Yes, Larry, let us know how everything went!
By the way, good to see you didn't give up on the boards. I wish we had more people like you who knew the movie business "way back when" posting here.
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Tuesday's question: What is the name of the town invaded by the Black Rebels motorcycle gang in the 1953 film THE WILD ONE?
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Nope -- sorry, Ken.
No other takers? Yesterday's answer: Ava Gardner, who was born in the village of Grabtown (or Grabton), North Carolina.
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Alix, you're in luck. The 1925 STELLA DALLAS has just been released on DVD by Sunrise Silents. Here's more info:
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Monday's question: For which of his movie star wives did bandleader Artie Shaw write "The Grabtown Grapple"?
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Greetings, everybody! Not much happening here -- just finished sending some happy birthday wishes to Mongo. Make sure you do the same, okay?
Now, on to this week's movie trivia . . .
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Friday's question: In what film did Lana Turner play a role originally played by Pauline Frederick?
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Since this is the 78th anniversary of the premiere of THE JAZZ SINGER, the film that began the talkie revolution --
Thursday's question: In THE JAZZ SINGER, Jack Robin (Al Jolson) scores his first sensation in a rathskeller called Coffee Dan's, which really existed in what American city?
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Good job, shaina! You are correct!
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Wednesday's question: What film actress's real last name was Tuvim?
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No takers?
Yesterday's answer: Jim Carrey, who posed in sailor garb on the cover of Linda Ronstadt's 1986 compilation album Round Midnight.
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I think one of the reasons is that Gilbert's performance in QUEEN CHRISTINA, as good as it was, was actually a throwback to the roles he had played in silent pictures. It probably seemed old-fashioned to 1933 audiences.
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If the type size was the same as in the block where we compose messages, it would be just about perfect.
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THE KISS was also MGM's last silent film. I think MGM was the only major studio that had any silent films on its release schedule during the 1929-30 season.
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Hey, Laura, good to see you back! What have you been up to? We've missed you here on the boards . . .
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Tuesday's question: What future film and TV star posed on an LP cover with singer Linda Ronstadt in 1986?
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Trivia -- Week of October 17, 2005
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You're no rookie, Ralph! You are correct!