Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Trifling Women Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blames Catholicism Ramon Novarro's extant films for Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), in which he plays the sly villain Rupert of Hentzau, and Scaramouche (1923), in the heroic title role, are also well worth a look. I haven't watched The Arab (1924), which has been recently brought back to the United States from foreign archives. My understanding is that the print is incomplete; even so, here's hoping The Arab will soon be restored and shown on TCM. The now lost Ingram-Novarro collaboration Trifling Women (1922) would probably have been a sumptuous treat — cinematographer John F. Seitz's work in that Gothic melodrama seems to have inspired his later chiaroscuro lighting for Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. The same goes for the idyllic Where the Pavement Ends (1923), a tale of interethnic romance set on a South Pacific...
- 10/31/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Claudette Colbert drawing by James Montgomery Flagg on Photoplay; two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer, whose “tempestuous life” is described in the magazine, turned 100 last January Inside The Hollywood Fan Magazine: Interview with Anthony Slide Part I I recall reading a quite negative and personal story in The New Movie Magazine written by columnist Herbert Howe about MGM star Ramon Novarro. How could something like that have been allowed, especially since it involved a star at the all-powerful MGM? Any other glaring instances of such negative stories taking place from the mid-20s to the early ’50s, during the height of the studio era? The New Movie Magazine was one of the best fan magazines to emerge in the late 1920s/early 1930s. [...]...
- 5/5/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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