Honored at Last: Keaton, Lloyd, Gish, Pickford, Barthelmess, Gaynor, Novarro
(See a note at the end about Gloria Swanson's bracelets) The First Gala 1955 This is a photo essay about a gala occasion in 1955, when the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York, held the first...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Vanished Latin Lovers
Rudolph Valentino in Blood and SandFilm fans who are familiar with stars of the 1920’s and 1930’s might notice one big difference between the decades — namely, what happened to all the Latin Lovers?...
View ArticleThe “Mae West” Effect
Lady Lou checks out the scene in She Done Him WrongIn 1933 talk about women's fashion was suddenly news, though the headlines it engendered weren't exactly solomn: "Bed Slat Figure Wanes as Women's...
View ArticleInvisible Woman: the Great Minna Gombell
I've been a classic film buff since I was about nine years old, when my parents let me -- heck, they encouraged me -- to stay up late (on a school night) to watch the great Greta Garbo romantic comedy...
View ArticleRobert Benchley: Everybody’s Friend
In the enjoyable wartime musical The Sky's the Limit, starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie, a key scene takes place at a banquet held to honor industrialists who contributed to the massive effort to...
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