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 #:
000187
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

BEAU GESTE ( 1926) 173 The increasing percentage of above-the-average productions showed that the films were slowly growing up. The year 1926 saw one of the best silent pictures ever made, Beau Geste. Produced by William Le Baron and magnificently directed by Herbert Brenon, the picture told the exciting and moving tale of three brothers in the Foreign Legion. In this scene are the oldest and youngest brothers, played by Bonald Colman (left) and Ralph Forbes. BELOW The cast was superb. Noah Beery, Neil Hamilton, Colman, and Forbes (right to left in order named) gave fine performances. William Powell (extreme left), a virtual unknown, got off to a flying start in his career by playing a bit part for all it was worth. ABOVE RIGHT Temporarily leaving the dramatic roles she customarily played, Norma Talmadge emerged as a comedienne in Kiki, an adaptation of Belasco's play about a street waif and a dramatic producer. Ronald Colman played opposite her.