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More San Francisco Silent Film Festival Fun!

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has gotten a little longer for its 20th anniversary. A day has been added to the festival! The event now runs Thursday, May 28, 2015 through Monday, June…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Film Festivals, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Silent Film
Nov, 08, 2014
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CMBA Forgotten Stars Blogathon: The Time Bebe Daniels Couldn’t Get Out of a Speeding Ticket

It reads like a publicity stunt out of the movie Bombshell. Silent film sweetheart Bebe Daniels was ticketed for speeding, tried, convicted, sentenced to jail, and forced to serve time. Rather than being planned like the stunts…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Bebe Daniels, Blogathons, CMBA, Forgotten Stars
Oct, 31, 2014
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World War One in Classic Film Blogathon: Dark Journey (1937)

Vivien Leigh viewed Dark Journey as a “personal failure.” It was her sixth film, but “her first true leading role,” and her lack of confidence during the production made her overly critical of her performance. She might not…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Blogathons, Conrad Veidt, Spy Films, Vivien Leigh, War Films, World War One in Classic Film
Sep, 07, 2014
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That’s Not Musidora! A Case of Mistaken Identity Compounded by Tumblr

Perhaps it’s not unexpected that an actress who’s best remembered for playing a disguised thief suffers from a case of mistaken identity on the internet. In the silent film Les Vampires, Musidora plays Irma Vep, who…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Musidora, Silent Film
Sep, 01, 2014
33 Comments

World War One in Classic Film Blogathon

“Art is a wound turned into light,” said painter Georges Braque. It’s only fitting then that the place of light and shadows, the cinema, was where those early generations turned to make sense of…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Blogathons, Documentaries, Drama, Mexico, Movie Streams & Downloads, Must Watch List, Old Time Radio, Trailers, Tune in or DVR, World War One in Classic Film
Aug, 02, 2014
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Fabulous Films of the 50s CMBA Blogathon: It Should Happen to You (1954)

Garson Kanin originally wrote It Should Happen to You as a vehicle for Danny Kaye. When his creative partner and wife Ruth Gordon read it, she knew who would be perfect for the part—Judy…

Beth Ann Gallagher
1950s, Blogathons, Classic Movie Blog Association, CMBA, Comedies, Era, Fabulous Films of the 50s, Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford
May, 26, 2014
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Romantic Comedy Blogathon: Love Crazy (1941)

Love Crazy opens with Steve Ireland (William Powell) singing along with It’s Delightful to be Married. The film reunites him with frequent co-star Myrna Loy, playing his wife Susan. Together in the Thin Man series,…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Blogathons, Comedies, Myrna Loy, Romantic, Romantic Comedy 2014, Screwball, William Powell
May, 07, 2014
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Added to the Must Watch List: Finding Vivian Maier (2013)

What would you do if you stumbled upon the work of a talented artist, completely unrecognized in her lifetime? John Maloof bought a lot of photographic negatives at an auction. He hoped they would…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Documentaries, Must Watch List
Apr, 26, 2014
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You Know You’re A Film Fanatic When–Judy Holliday!

You know you’re a film fanatic when you get emotional defending Judy Holliday’s 1950 Oscar win for Born Yesterday to your husband–and he agrees with you the whole time!

Judy had formidable competition that year….

Beth Ann Gallagher
Appreciations, Awards, Comedies, Judy Holliday, Oscars, Performances
Apr, 05, 2014
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The Little Tramp at 100, Part 1

Last month, The San Francisco Silent Film Festival joined a worldwide celebration of Charlie Chaplin with The Little Tramp at 100. Three programs celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Little Tramp persona’s first film…