Sentences with phrase «silent screen»

He made hundreds of silent Screen Tests, close up moving portraits of his subjects screened in slow motion.

When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought - iron fence, Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced it is suicide.

When Starter Eddie Blind threw the switch, Johnny Rotz broke quickly with Silent Screen but, passing the stands the first time moments later, it was Oh Fudge and Plenty Old who led the way.

Married three times, Virginia Bruce's first husband was silent screen idol John Gilbert, with whom she costarred in Downstairs (1932), an obscure but lively melodrama for which Gilbert had written the screenplay.

A new study reports e-readers may be sharing user information without consent; Victoria Strauss discovered a publicity firm's claims were far removed from reality; Charles Simic reveals his love for silent screen legend Buster Keaton; and other news.

In one of the most brilliant cast films ever, actual silent screen star Gloria Swanson returned to the movies to play the delusional Norma Desmond and actual silent star / director Erich von Stroheim (who worked with Swanson on the never - finished Queen Kelly, portions of which appear in Sunset Boulevard) plays her former director / current butler.

From 1963 through 1968 Andy Warhol produced nearly 650 films, including hundreds of silent Screen Tests, or portrait films, and dozens of full - length movies, in styles ranging from minimalist avant - garde to commercial «sexploitation.»

Designed by William J. Dodd, whose portfolio included such landmark buildings as the Los Angeles Herald - Examiner and The Pacific Center, this once private home sheltered famed New York attorney Samuel Untermyer as well as silent screen star Marion Davies, remembered as much for her 30 year affair with William Randolph Hearst as her movie roles and business savvy.

In his first start of the season Sonny Werblin's Silent Screen put on a plucky show at Hialeah as the 3 - year - olds there and at Santa Anita launched the campaign that leads to Churchill Downs in May

Personality caught Silent Screen just after they passed the eighth pole, but off to his left thundered My Dad George, with Ray Broussard riding frantically.

There was the showbiz sentiment that for more than a year now has enveloped Silent Screen, his owner Sonny Werblin and the loud and flashy entourage that trails this team around.

Midway up the backstretch Rotz gave Silent Screen his head and he shot to a quick two - length lead around the far turn.

A tall, dark - haired, often elegant silent screen actor, Larry Steers had appeared with the famous Bush Temple Stock Company and opposite matinee idol Robert Edeson prior to making his film debut with Paramount in 1917.

Silent screen cowboy Buddy Roosevelt reached perhaps the nadir of his career with this film, in which he plays a deputy marshal trailing a gang of claim jumping murderers lead by pudgy Olin Francis.

A handsome silent screen leading man with a widow's peak, lanky Niles Welch had appeared in stock prior to making his screen debut for the Vitagraph company in 1913.

Her next film appearance in 1949 turned out to be one of the finest achievements in anybody's career: Her Oscar - nominated virtuoso performance as faded, self - delusional silent screen star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's vitriolic Hollywood melodrama Sunset Boulevard.

The third collection of the brilliant «Treasures From American Film Archives,» which showcases 48 rarities made between the years 1900 to 1934, is loosely organized around themes of social issues and engagement and reveals a side of early cinema forgotten in the popularity of the comedy legends and silent screen heartthrobs.

Silent screen houses dotted the Island, most notably was perhaps Port Blakely's Please U Theatre.

Gordon's blatant creative «Kidnapping» of movies is best shown in 24 Hour Psycho (1993), in which the effect of stretching the iconic Hitchcock thriller into a daylong and silent screening challenges our understanding of the original version and the psychic themes it probes.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre hosts another of its popular Sounds of Silents screenings on Oct. 16: the 1925 classic «Phantom of the Opera» starring Lon Chaney, with live musical accompaniment by Berklee College of Music students.

This time I look for Silent Screen and Personality to go out there and give us some early speed, and we'll be a lot closer.

Inspired by songs written by MGM producer Arthur Freed at the beginning the sound era, Singin» in the Rain takes that seismic shift in film history for its setting, focusing on heartthrob screen couple Don Lockwood (Kelly) and Lina Lamont (the hilarious Jean Hagen) as the transition into sound — problem being that Lamont's voice, like many actual silent screen stars, doesn't fit her onscreen persona.

The print is amazingly detailed with photo prints of silent screen stars, w...

In all those little rituals played out again and again on the silent screen he stood for us, represented us.

Behind My Dad George, beaten another three lengths, was Silent Screen, who held third place by two lengths over the late - finishing High Echelon.

Other horsemen, in agreement that blinkers help a horse only 10 % of the time, were inclined to feel that Silent Screen, after missing some two weeks of serious training in Florida, was still «short» for the Derby, and that if he could handle the turns at Pimlico he might take an early lead and hold it.

Silent Screen was third, Robin's Bug fourth and Personality fifth.

Everyone was frightened of Silent Screen, even his trainer, Bowes Bond, who, in desperation to get the colt back to his winning ways of 1969, decided to run him for the first time in blinkers.

The disc's other menus are simple, static, silent screens.

1897 Natacha Rambova was born on this day in Salt Lake City and her life would definitely make for a juicy biopic subject: she was a dancer, a costume designer, and a set designer (who helped bring Art Deco to Hollywood) and there were rumors of bisexuality, affairs with famous Russian dancer, and of course a fateful marriage to the silent screen superstar Rudolph Valentino that ended in tragedy.

Compared, however, to Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in Billy Wilder's 1950 Sunset Blvd., a silent screen idol who plunges into her own psychotic world of illusion when she no longer fits into the new «talkie» world of movie making illusion, George Valentin displays only the fall of pride into self - pity.

Visionary Irish director of the silent screen Rex Ingram to be celebrated at the IFI on 9th Dec with screening of «Mare Nostrum», with live musical accompaniment from 3epkano

Stephen Totterdell takes a look at Ruth Barton's latest book, «Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen».

12:15 am (14th)-- TCM — Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder's classic noir explores the dark side of the rich and formerly famous, as a struggling screenwriter (William Holden) gets involved with a silent screen star seeking to make a comeback in the sound era.

The menu is a static, silent screen.

6:00 pm — TCM — Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder's classic noir explores the dark side of the rich and formerly famous, as a struggling screenwriter (William Holden) gets involved with a silent screen star seeking to make a comeback in the sound era.

Like the cutscenes, they are lifeless, silent screens of text that go so far as to talk about things that you literally can not do yet!

Marker's new video installation Silent Movie at first glance seems to be a reverie of a past aglitter with ineffable gestures, shadowy emotions, and a longing delicately attached to the silent screen.

The film evokes in a facetious way the silent Screen Tests (1964 - 1966) by Warhol shot during the same time period.

GRAD opened its doors to press, guests and exhibiting artists to celebrate Kino / Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen.

Another exciting exhibition coming up in London as part of the union is the «Kino / Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen» show opening on Janauary 17.