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 #:
000161
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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THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) 147 The tale of the princess and the thief was played against a series of fantastic Oriental settings, designed by William Cameron Menzies, that were a triumph of the scenic designer's art. Above is Julanne Johnston as the princess. Miss Johnston was a Fairbanks discovery, having first attracted his attention as a dancer in the prologue to Robin Hood. ABOVE RIGHT Another acrobatic actor, in a somewhat different field, was Buster Keaton. In fact, he came from a family of acrobats and started bis career in vaudeville, traveling in their act. On the screen he was long a favorite, playing dead-pan comic roles in his own two-reelers. He and Joseph Schenck, his producer, eventually became brothers-in-law, for Schenck married Norma Talmadge and Buster married her sister Natalie. He is shown here in one of his most successful pictures, The Navigator, made in 1924. BELOW William S. Hart, meanwhile, entered upon his tenth year as a favorite player in Westerns. Here he is in Singer Jim McKee, a 1924 horse opera. The girl at the left is Mary Holden; at the right is none other than our former favorite Sennett bathing girl, Phyllis Haver.