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Greta Garbo photographed by Ruth Harriet Loiuse
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Remade by Greta Garbo: Camille
Studio manager of Rasunda was relegated to Vilhelm Bryde during 1923. Author Forsyth Hardy Gaines an account, "His influence was most clearly seen in 'Damen med Kamelioarna', a static, theatrical...
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Sven Gustafson screenwriter, Europa 1942-1948
While Alva, apart from appearing as an extra with sister Greta for the Swedish Silent film director John Brunius, only made one screen appearance, that of a part in the film "Two Kings" ("Tva...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Greta Garbo in Torrent ( Bell, 1926)
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Greta Garbo in The Temptress
Greta Garbo as continuance of VampAuthor Roger Manvell, in his volume The Film and the Public notes that after World War I, the genres that were already in place began to take a new turn with the new...
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Greta Garbo in Wild Orchids (Sidney Franklin, 1929)
Motion Picture News during 1929 quietly reported, "Clarence Brown will direct Greta Garbo in Heat for M. G.M.", later that month it adding, "Greta Garbo...has just completed The Divine Woman and will...
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Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo, 1928)
While editor of Film Comment magazine, Richard Corliss signed the dedication of his biography of Greta Garbo, "To My Own Mysterious Lady, who taught me all I know." Apparently, he had met his wife at...
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Greta Garbo in The Single Standard (1929, Marsh)
John Bainbridge gives an account of Greta Garbo having returned from Sweden in which the studio and public had expected her to arrive in Los Angeles and her instead having gotten off the train early...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: (The Hell Ship 1923, Victor Sjostrom)
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View ArticleBodakingen, The Tyrrany of Hate (Gustaf Molander, 1920)
“The King Boda” (“Tyranny of Hate/Boda kungen”, 1920) was the first film to bear the name of Gustaf Molander as director. It was also the first film to be photographed by Adrian Bjurman. The film stars...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Sarah Bernhardt in Les Amours de la reine Élisa...
Directing in 1912, Louis Mercatan had filmed stage actresss Sarah Bernhardt for four reels using only long static shots; there are twenty three scenes in the film and of twenty two intertitles, only...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The New York Hat (D.W. Griffith, Biograph)
Directed by D.W. Griffith, the film features the first photoplay written by Anita Loos. Subsequently, Loos was to write the scenarios and screenplays to films which starred Douglas Fairbanks. The New...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: An Unseen Enemy (Griffith, 1912)
The year 1912 was to mark the first film with Lillian and Dorothy Gish, “An Unseen Enemy”, directed by D.W. Griffith.Silent FilmLillian and Dorothy Gish
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Synd (Gustaf Molander, 1928)
Swedish silent film director Gustaf Molander had in fact been at the Intima Theatern from 1911 to 1913.In regard to the film “Synd”, Forsyth Hardy writes, “The Merzback influence had helped to scale...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Orphans Of The Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)
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Scott Lord Silent Film: One Exciting Night (D. W. Griffith, 1922)
After having directed Carol Dempster in “One Exciting Night” (Eleven reels), D.W. Griffith, by then having become a producer for United Artists, followed in 1922 by directing Dempster in the film “The...
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