Seeking copy of Hollywood Revuew of 1929

[movieman1957]

I love Jobyna and Lloyd together. She compliments Harold nicely. Interesting name too.

[LsDoorMat]

"The Desert Song" (1929) was actually made and completed by Warner Bros. in October and November of 1928. It would have been a real stand-out by the day's standard if it were not for one problem. Warner Bros. had a schedule of film release from which it never deviated. They had films slated for release six months in advance and scheduled things such that they could shut down the studio for the last two months of the year and thus cut costs. You'd think that the unusual circumstances thrust upon the industry caused by the dawn of sound would cause Warners to rethink this approach temporarily. It didn't. As a result, "The Desert Song" sat on the shelves through the winter break until its scheduled release date of May 1929. By that time sound recording in film had come a long way and The Desert Song actually looked dated compared to what was being released.

 

This film was considered lost until someone found a black and white print in Jack Warner's personal vault. This badly worn print is all that survives of the Techicolor early sound print. "perfectjazz" on youtube has posted eleven parts of the film so far. I have never seen all of the segments, so I don't know how many more segments she has to go. Part 1 is at

 

[Desert Song Part 1|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_y8WLhjCao]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myrna as a vamp in yet another Warner Bros. film.

[LsDoorMat]

I previously posted this on the precode thread. I'm putting it over here to because it is early sound (1930).

 

Everyone else who commented on this film on imdb prior to myself did so between Dec 30, 2003 and early January 2004. That would lead me to believe that everybody saw it on TCM during that timeframe - and not before and not since. That's a shame, since it is a very unusual and interesting precode. So, when WHV says there is no real demand for many of their precodes on DVD they should remember that it might be because few people have ever seen them.

 

Directed by Michael Curtiz, this 1930 film is a French farce, but the pace and dialogue are very characteristically pre-code Warner Bros. The story involves a man (Frank Fay) who was presumed killed in a train wreck five years before. His wife has since remarried (James Gleason),and tonight her first husband's friends shall gather at her home to toast his memory. She is in need of a hairdresser, and her maid (Marion Byron) calls up her own for the short-notice appointment. Imagine the surprise of all concerned when the hairdresser bears a complete resemblence to the allegedly dead man. Only one problem - the hairdresser doesn't recognize his wife or any of his old friends at all.

 

Leading man Frank Fay is unremembered today, and he had a meteoric rise to fame courtesy Warner Bros. and matching meteoric fall courtesy the public's response to his films. Watching him today I just think he was given the wrong kind of roles. I think he pulled the part off of the amnesiac hairdresser very convincingly with just the right balance of comedy and pathos. It is quite touching when he realizes that he has been considered dead for five years and that his wife's affection is lost to someone else whom he strongly dislikes and he sings "their song" to her just once more in an attempt to woo her back. However, Mr. Fay was not a dashingly handsome man, and I think the fault lies at the feet of the Warners for trying to turn him into a musical comedy version of Clark Gable. The absolutely most tiresome part of this film is all of the women who knew Fay's character before his "death" in the train wreck declaring "What a man! What a man!" whenever they look at his portrait. There are title cards with the same statement at various points in the film declaring the same thing just in case the audience forgets what a desirable hunk of man Fay is supposed to be.

 

Lilyan Tashman lends strong support as the first wife's current best friend and lover of Trebel (Fay) the hairdresser, not knowing he has a previous identity. The catty rivalry between Tashyman and the wife's maid (Marion Byron) is priceless pre-code stuff if only we could forget who they are fighting over (Fay) - it is too much of a suspense of belief. James Gleason still has some color in his hair as he plays the second husband of Trebel/Noblet's first wife, one who greatly resents all of the "What a man!" comments. Here he shows what made him one of the great character actors of the 30's and 40's.

 

P.S. has anyone else who might have seen this film happen to notice that when Fay and Gleason finally have a showdown and strip down to their underwear to duke it out that they are wearing exactly the same style of underwear?? It is as strange as the elephant with the question mark painted on it in "Manhattan Parade", another Warner Bros. precode that has had only one airing as far as I know.

 

If you ever get a chance to view it, give it a try. I finally tracked a copy down at bestvideo.com, but it did have artifacting so bad that it knocked out the sound on one of my DVD players, although it played fine on the other two I have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leopold Trebel's first wife and her friend Sylvaine (Lilyan Tashman) conspire about how to handle the unexpected return of Leopold, presumed dead for five years and now a womanizing hairdresser with no memory of his former life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leopold's current wife arrives with their two sets of twins in tow. Expecting to find Leopold with a woman, she is surprised to see him in a compromising position with the man of the house, Gustave Corton (James Gleason).

[scottman1932]

This is the kind of film Ernst Lubitsch did best, too bad Warners didn't borrow him from Paramount. It might have been a better film

[gagman66]

 

*Charles Farrell, and Janet Gaynor, One Gorgeous Couple*

 

 

 

 

 

*Farrell, and Gaynor "Bashful Hearts" From LUCKY STAR (1929)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Farrell And Gaynor "My Angela Mia" From STREET ANGEL (1928)*

 

 

 

 

 

*Farrell and Gaynor, Fond Embrace*

[gagman66]

 

*John Gilbert And Eleanor Boardman, "OPEN SLEIGH!" From WIFE OF THE CENTAUR (1924)*

[gagman66]

 

*Norma Talmadge, Snazzy, Canary Dress*

 

 

 

 

*Renee Adoree, Sly Expression*

 

 

 

 

*Renee Adoree, Expensive Coat*

 

 

 

 

 

*Mary Brian Medieval Royalty*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Mary Brian, Pilot Cap*

 

 

 

 

 

*Eleanor Boardman, Sporty Outfit for TELL IT TO THE MARINES (1926)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Vilma Banky, In Two-Strip*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Vilma Banky with Leading Man Walter Byron: From THE AWAKENING (1926)*

 

 

 

*June Collyer, Knockout City!*

 

 

 

 

*Olive Borden, Dagger Eyes*

 

 

 

 

*Bebe Daniels Up-Close*

 

 

 

 

 

*Esther Ralston, Ever So Glamorous*

 

 

 

 

 

*Marceline Day, The Lovliest Beer Maiden!*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*"The La Plante' Shuffle!"*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Laura La Plante in DANGEROUS INNOCENCE (1925)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Laura La Plante, Ribbons And Bows*

 

 

 

 

 

*Laura La Plante and A Scruffy Tom Moore From LOVE THRILL (1927)*

 

 

 

 

 

*Janet Gaynor, Darling Pant Suit*

 

 

 

 

 

*Janet Gaynor, With Pet Schnauzer*

[gagman66]

 

*Clara Bow, Wind Blown Hair*

 

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, Evil Pouty Pose!*

 

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow in Arab Girl Costume*

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, Office Background*

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, Purple Pajama Suit With Cape*

 

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, Elbow Smash!!!*

[gagman66]

Everyone,

 

By the way, here is a link to a recently formed John Gilbert Fans group on Vintage Life Network. I just discovered this group last night and joined for the first time. There is also a Rudolph Valentino group, Greta Garbo Group, Norma Shearer, 1920's group, Silent films Group, TCM group, Flapper Beauties group, and much, much, more!

 

 

http://vintagelifenetwork.ning.com/group/johngilbert

 

 

 

*Be sure to check out the Brand New On-line Group for John Gilbert Fans on Vintage Life Network. You will also find numerous other neat groups to join!*

 

This is the link to my own Web-page on VLN:

 

 

http://vintagelifenetwork.ning.com/profile/TheGiant

[gagman66]

 

*Colleen Moore In Authentic Two-Strip Technicolor From IRENE (1926)*

 

 

 

 

*Lunch Counter Colleen from HER WILD OAT (1927)*

 

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore, Young And Very Pretty*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore Is THE DESERT FLOWER (1925)*

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore, Afternoon Serenade*

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore on Phototplay Cover with Long Hair. Lovely Painting.*

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore on Motion Picture Magazine Cover, Pretty The Pilgrim*

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore, Precious Pixie Portrait*

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore, Oriental Style*

[gagman66]

 

*Corinne Griffith "Such A Sweetheart!"*

 

 

 

 

*Corinne Griffith Flapper Extraordinary!*

 

 

 

 

*Corinne Griffith "Glimpse Of Heaven"*

 

 

 

 

 

*Corinne Griffith-Frail Delicate Beauty*

 

 

 

 

*Corinne Griffith, Springtime Fashion*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*A decidely Un-glamorous Corinne with Baby*

[gagman66]

Follow this link to see view one of the most awesome sequences ever filmed!

 

 

http://silent-and-classic-european.ning.com/video/the-big-parade-1925bound-for

[gagman66]

Here are direct links to Ten clips in relative order (there is footage omitted between), of a very big MGM Silent that has never been seen on TCM to date! I sincerely hope that it will be before to long. Has gotta be one of my favorite movies! You are going to really love this stuff!

 

A huge cast John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Ernest Torrence, Nils Asther. And two Big name directors of the day George W. Hill, and Clarence Brown from 1928. Take a gander, and enjoy!

 

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928enter

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928romantic

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks1928lover-not

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks1928lover-not-a

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928the-royal'>http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928the-royal'>http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928the-royal'>http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928the-royal

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928watch-fires

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks1928-torrid

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928the

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928-betrayal

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/the-cossacks-1928broken-dreams

[gagman66]

 

*Colleen Moore, Short And Sweet*

 

 

 

 

*Colleen Moore With George K. Arthur, "Oppsie, We Fawd Down! To Cute Of a Klutz!" From IRENE (1926)*

[gagman66]

 

 

 

*Diana (Garbo) and Neville (John Gilbert) from Clarence Brown's "A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS" (1928)*

 

 

 

 

 

*Garbo, "Diana's Despair-Losing Neville"*

 

 

 

 

 

*Garbo and Dorothy Sebastian As Constance*

 

 

 

 

 

*Garbo, "Stoic Intensity"*

[ugaarte]

Hi Gagman. . .

 

Just had to let you know that I enjoyed those clips of the "Cossacks" 1928. . .

(there were a couple of those links that I was unable to get into...), but all in all,

it was very enjoyable . . .and such a great score, too.

 

And those pics of Janest Gaynor & Charles Farrell were just wonderful.

They look so wonderful together. I also liked the picture of Janet Gaynor dressed in

plaid, w/ a green beret. . .she looks very Sottish.

 

Also the picture of Laura La Plante all dressed n Lavender Ribbons and Bows,

She appears so Sweet & Endearing.

And those other pics of Esther Ralston, Bebe Daniels, Olive Borden, Vilma Banky,

Eleanor Boardman, Renee Adoree, Norma Talmadge & Mary Brian are just so spectacular.

Mary Brian just looks adorable in that Pilots Cap, but her face will always put me in the

mind of 'Wendy' in Peter Pan.

 

And I also enjoyed all those pics of Clara Bow and Colleen Moore. The picture of Clara Bow

dressed in Arab garb, is very striking...she almost has a look like Louise Brooks.

And Colleen Moore, That was such a Fabulous Picture of her in 'Oriental Style'....I can see

having a poster of that hanging on my wall. She was totally Fabulous ! I also loved those

Magazine covers she appears on....'Morion Picture' Magazine & 'Photoplay' Magazine.

 

My hats off to you, again, Gagman !

Thanks,

Ugaarte

[gagman66]

ugaarte,

 

Hey, good to see you back here again. Thanks for the compliments as always. I skipped a fair amount of THE COSSACKS in between, and the last 35 minutes or so, none of that was posted at all. It was never my intention to post the full film. This is a really a great feature and deserves some serious attention from Warner's and TCM. I mean the France 3 broadcast was in 2001! That is a long time ago already, and yet to be aired on TCM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To be honest, I am not real happy with the way the videos looks once uploaded on GAOH. They move to slow, and there is a bad ghosting effect. The actual source material isn't like that. Which clips did not play? I will check the URL's. OK, I just revised the links to where they all lead to GAOH. So they should be OK now? Let me know if you are still having trouble?

 

I really wish that TCM would show this movie. Personally, I think it is John Gilbert's best feature other than THE BIG PARADE. At least among the films that I have seen, which is most of them that survive. Plus Renee Adoree is just fantastic. Ernest Torrence is great as Ivan the leader of tribe. You have Nils Asther. THE COSSACKS should be much better remembered, because if it were more widely seen it's reputation would definitely be on the rise among MGM Silents. Incidentally, Did you look at the other videos that I posted there? You will find some real surprises among them if you do. Can't elaborate here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I removed one of the Janet Gaynor picks, because it is much to large, and needs to be resized. I had a few more Corinne Griffith photos, but either I didn't post them, are they are someplace else on this forum? They started a Colleen Moore group on VLN. So please join up as we could use more members. A couple already dropped out. There is a Marion Davies group, Pickford group, Garbo, Gilbert, Harold Lloyd, Clara Bow, Flapper Beauties, All kinds of them.

 

Hoping for a TCM premier of BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT when the May schedule is released. Maybe THE WHITE SISTER too? BARDELYS is being shown at the Annual Kansas Silent Film Festival in a couple weeks or so. They will also be screening the newly restored Constance Talmadge Comedy HER SISTER FROM PARIS (1925) with Ronald Coleman, and allot more. Here are some links providing additional details about the event:

 

 

 

http://www.kssilentfilmfest.org/kssff2009/notes.html

 

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/movies/story/960062.html

 

www.kssilentfilmfest.org.

[ugaarte]

Hey, I just had to let you all know that I watched 3 films of Mary Pckford, this past week,

from Netflix. The movies were :

 

1. "Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley" 1918,

 

2. "Through the Back Door" 1921, which also included a 2nd video of "Cinderella" 1914,

 

3. And 'Sparrows" 1926, which I was surprised to find myself a little on the edge of my seat,

as she is the oldest orphan child who escapes from a 'baby farm' where the children are

mistreated and starved. . .She leads 10 smaller children with her, with a baby strapped to

her back. . .They travel through swamplands and through limbs of trees dangling over

live aligators, each child clinging to broken limbs and swinging on ropes over the swamps. . . .

What a Great Movie. . . and the kids, what great performances they gave.

There was also a very touching scene, where she is rocking a very sick child in her arm,

And somewhere in the night, the child dies, and suddenly, the shabby, rickety Wall, of the barn where they are locked up in, changes to a Scenerio of trees and green pastures, with sheep

and lambs grazing around. And then Jesus appears and walks towards her, with his staff,

and picks up the child from her arms and Carries him, walking back towards the pasture as the Scenerio, changes back to the old, rickety wall again. I was So definately touched by this.

 

This video also included 2 other videos, both directed by D.W. Griffin:

"A Mender of Nets" 1910 and "Willful Peggy" 1912. These were short but very enjoyable, too.

 

I never realized Mary Pickford was of a small staturel.....she must have been around 4' 11",

because everyone 'towered' over her, even the women.

 

Gagman, I also enjoyed those posters of John Gilbert, in the "Cossack",

I just had to let you know. Thanks a lot.

 

Ugaarte.

[gagman66]

ugaarte,

 

Here are some colorized photos with a Valentine flavor.

 

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, "Heart Breaker!"*

 

 

 

 

*Darling Anita Smooched by Johnny Mack Brown*

 

 

 

 

*Gilbert And Garbo From LOVE (1927)*

 

 

 

 

*Gilbert And Garbo Romantic Publicity Photo*

 

 

 

 

*Delores Del Rio And Edmund Lowe, From THE LOVES OF CARMEN (1927)*

[gagman66]

ugaarte,

 

Here is a special Valentine treat just for you! Click on the link. Please don't be expecting to see any more of this movie though on GAOH.

 

 

http://goldenageofhollywood.ning.com/video/bardelys-the-magnificent

[ugaarte]

Dear Gagman. . .

 

Thank you so much for that Special GAOH Presentation of

'Bardleys the Magnificent 1926 - The Boatride'

with John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman. . . .

That was such a Romantic Boat ride down a soothing river

with weeping willows hanging over them. . .

and then to have the clip complete with a swashbucking scene....

 

Thank you again Gagman

 

Ugaarte : )

[gagman66]

 

*Young Marion Reading*

 

 

 

 

 

*Marion Davies, Buttons All Over The Place! (I guess?)*

 

 

 

 

 

*Marion Davies, Tina At he Door. From THE RED MILL (1926)*

 

 

 

 

*Marion Davies From SHOW PEOPLE (1928)*

[gagman66]

Everybody,

 

 

WOW! Here is a Fabulous Vintage Painted Poster for WINGS, and a couple gorgeous and unique photos of Clara Bow, that I have never seen before! Some really great stuff here! Take a gander!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, "Won't Take This Lying Down"*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Clara Bow, Beautiful Hair, and Smile! (What Dimples! I'm Blushing!)*

[gagman66]

Birthday Girl Dorothy Janis. 99 just yesterday. One of the last remaing Silent Screen Stars still living today. Certainly she was among the most beautiful of them all in her prime. No question. Here in these stills from THE PAGAN (1929).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gagman66]

 

*John Gilbert And Eleanor Boardman From "WIFE OF THE CENTAUR" (1924)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Ronald Coleman, And Vilma Banky From "THE NIGHT OF LOVE" (1927)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Delores Del Rio and Edmund Lowe From "THE BAD ONE" (1927)*