Posts tagged with "Our Dancing Daughters"
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
So seriously, I made a little online tour of the rep cinema’s last night to see what’s on offer this weekend, and felt very disappointed that I can’t go out to a silent film screening this week. The Toronto Silent Film Festival spoiled me! It might just be me and the dvds this weekend, folks. [...]
TSFF Review: Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
For me, there are two alternating pleasures in watching silent movies. The first is the opportunity to watch a fledgling medium, one that is still so much with us today, being born. Silent movies showcase the intuitive genius of a lot of early filmmakers who seemed to just know what to do with these moving [...]
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
Wowee – is my feets sore from doing the Charleston with Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters! Last night was the opening night of the Toronto Silent Film Festival and fabulous it was. But despite sipping bathtub gin til the wee hours of the morn, this jazz baby is hard at work this morning to [...]
TSFF Preview: Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
The Toronto Silent Film Festival kicks off on March 29, 2012 with Our Dancing Daughters. Or maybe I should say it Charlestons off. This 1928 silent classic directed by Harry Beaumont is a jazzy look at the flappers and fops of 1920′s America and stars a very young Joan Crawford. And I mean very young, [...]
Film Friday | Weekly Roundup
Wowee! It’s been quite the Buster Keaton -centric week! Buster is near and dear to my heart, so to see such an outpouring of affection and appreciation for him gives me the warm and fuzzies (I think that’s the correct technical term). Pretty Clever Films will be Bustering it up all month, so watch out [...]
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Tracy Wuster
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Silent Czarina
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Christina Stewart
There are soooo many lost films. Unfortunately we …
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Christina Stewart
Jon, what a great list! Jannings is another actor, …
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Brandy Dean
I think we all know which movie I *wish* was lost. …
