Overall reaction: bleh

I believe TCM is broke. I've been unable to interest them in any projects for a while now. Whatever budget they have to license new films seems to be going to pet projects of various hosts and "event" things like the National Registry of Films. But this is just my opinion.

The final night of the Star of the Month salute to Marion Davies starts tonight with Peg o' My Heart (1933). This is one of Marion's most charming talkies and there was a significant write-in campaign for her for an Oscar. She was also elected to the Academy in May of 1933 as sort of a precursor of ...

Here's 15-year-old Mary Astor in front of the old Belgrade Hotel in Brother of the Bear (1921), her film debut. This is about 5 miles from where I live. The hotel burned to the ground in the 1950s.

I have two of Mary Astor's first films, which were filmed in Maine in 1921. She was 15 years ago and starred in Brother of the Bear , which was her film debut) and My Lady o' the PInes . The former was filmed about 5 miles from where I live at the Belgrade Hotel on Long Pond. The hotel was one of t...

The dream dance number "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines" is one of the more bizarre Hollywood production numbers with Marion Davies and Bing Crosby watching themselves perform a dance number with scarecrows and farm hands. Crosby was never in better voice than in his film. He also sing...

The third night of the salute to Marion Davies kicks off Tuesday at 8pm Eastern with several of her best MGM talkies like The Bachelor Father, Five and Ten, Blondie of the Follies, and Going Hollywood.

Copyrights have ended for all American films 1927 and before. The only "control" anyone has over the films in the public domain is if they are in private archives (like Eastman) of if there are donor restrictions (some of these go back to the 1970s) on films that have been donated. If film...

I have two of Mary Astor's first films, which were filmed in Maine in 1921. She was 15 years ago and starred in Brother of the Bear , which was her film debut) and My Lady o' the PInes . The former was filmed about 5 miles from where I live at the Belgrade Hotel on Long Pond. The hotel was one of th...

And the irony is that the train accident that injured Reid as they were transporting crew and equipment to the lumber camp in Korbel, Calif. was virtually re-created in the film because it was part of the storyline. And so Reid had to re-live the nightmare.....

My restoration of the Wallace Reid film The Valley of the Giants (1919) will get its first big screen showing at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angele on Feb. 11. https://theautry.org/events/film/silent-treatment-film-series-valley-giants-1919 https://i.postimg.cc/5yydQ9P9/split-screen...

First talkie was the Oscar-nominated Hollywood Revue of 1929 . First starring talkie was Marianne , which was made first as a silent film with Davies starring with Oscar Shaw and then completely remade as a talkie with Lawrence Gray as co-star. The silent version was shown in the sticks and overseas...

The Marion Davies salute continues tonight with two more silents: the comedy classics The Patsy and Show People.

TikiSoo wrote: ↑January 6th, 2023, 8:57 am

drednm wrote: ↑January 6th, 2023, 7:39 am Another jump of a few years for the next two silents (Jan 10) with The Patsy and Show People, both 1928.

I sure hope these aren't new versions, as I copied all of them from last TCM broadcasts & enjoyed them all.

Same versions TCM always shows ... from the Warners/MGM library....

Another jump of a few years for the next two silents (Jan 10) with The Patsy and Show People, both 1928.