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 #:
000199
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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HOTEL IMPERIAL (1926) 185 Mauritz Stiller was invited to come to Hollywood as a director because of a film he had made in Sweden in 1923, called The Story of Gosta Berling. In the picture was a young actress protegee of his, and when he came to America he brought her along, with the understanding that she was to have a contract, She got the contract, but the studios paid no attention to her for a while. She was Greta Garbo. In the photograph above, she appears with Lars Hanson in a scene from the Swedish film. Stiller was also instrumental in bringing Hanson to America, where he played leading roles, as in The Scarlet Letter. BELOW Stiller never quite succeeded in hitting the pace of the Hollywood mills. One of his most nearly successful pictures was Hotel Imperial, made in 1926. In this scene we see Pola Negri and Max Davidson.