A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Page scan 000147 from A pictorial history of the movies

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000147
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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SAFETY LAST (192 3) 133 In 1923 Charles Chaplin undertook the unprecedented step of writing, directing, and producing a picture in which he himself did not appear. This was A Woman of Paris, a film whose satire and realism were far removed from what the public had been led to expect of the typical Chaplin comedy. Adolphe Menjou played an urbane, cynical man of the world with a subtlety and consummate smoothness that carried no suggestion of the stock movie villain, while Edna Purviance created a polished demimondaine who bore no resemblance to the usual screen vamp. It was a courageous venture for its time, one that deserved success— and got it. One of the most ambitious undertakings of Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures, a film version of Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was lavishly produced in 1923. As Quasimodo, the hunchback, Lon Chaney further enhanced his reputation as a great character actor. BELOW Harold Lloyd had followed A Sailor-Made Man with another comic hit, Grandma's Boy, in 1922. Now he turned out another success, this time in seven reels, Safety Last. The picture, as you can well understand from this shot, contained hilarious and frightening situations that only Chaplin has ever equaled.