A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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 #:
000148
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:
March 28, 2024
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134 THE TWENTIES Such pictures as A Woman of Paris and Nazimova's productions had shown that producers could film a serious story, with a fair chance of success. Thus it was that First National ventured to offer an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie, giving Blanche Sweet one of her best roles. BELOW Marion Davies started in the chorus, was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies, and made her screen debut in 1917. In 1923 Cosmopolitan Pictures starred her in Little Old Xetc York. In the scene below, she is the lad at the whipping post. At the left, Harrison Ford is giving Louis Wolheim his come-uppance. Gloria Swanson, whose appetite for costumes seemed insatiable, played in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, an adaptation of Ina Claire's successful stage vehicle of 1921. The story concerned a millionaire whohad divorced seven wives and taken an eighth. The Oriental sequences are pure movie. Huntley Gordon, above, played Bluebeard.