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TCM to Pay Tribute to Oscar-Winning Actress Jennifer Jones - Daemon's Movies

Dec 21, 2009 11:23 PM

TCM to Pay Tribute to Oscar-Winning Actress Jennifer JonesDaemon's MoviesKing Vidor directed the lavishly colorful film, which also stars Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Herbert Marshall, Walter Hu...

Jennifer Jones Tribute on TCM - Alt Film Guide (blog)

Dec 18, 2009 2:39 PM

Hindustan TimesJennifer Jones Tribute on TCMAlt Film Guide (blog)Also in the Duel in the Sun cast: Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Herbert Marshall, Walter Huston and Butterfly McQueen. Beat the De...

Authentically Gish, Garbo, Tiger, Obama, and Uh-Huh, Palin - Big Hollywood (blog)

Dec 18, 2009 9:13 AM

Authentically Gish, Garbo, Tiger, Obama, and Uh-Huh, PalinBig Hollywood (blog)Lillian Gish's heartbreaking performance as the abused daughter in Broken Blossoms (1919) cemented the image of a sensi...

Jennifer Jones remembered with TCM movie marathon - NewsOK.com (blog)

Dec 18, 2009 7:19 AM

NewsOK.com (blog)Jennifer Jones remembered with TCM movie marathonNewsOK.com (blog)King Vidor directed the lavishly colorful film, which also stars Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Herbert Marshall,...

Oscar Winning Actress Jennifer Jones Dies at 90 - Fox 31 KDVR.com

Dec 17, 2009 12:07 PM

Fox 31 KDVR.comOscar Winning Actress Jennifer Jones Dies at 90Fox 31 KDVR.comShe was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in "Duel in the Sun" (1946) with Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gi...

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones dies at 90

Dec 17, 2009 11:38 AM

Excerpt ...said. Jones also was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in Duel in the Sun(1946) with Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore, and lauded for her work in ...

David Lynch's blend of beauty, dread and sinister jokes -- and Laura Dern's ... - Salon

Dec 15, 2009 8:29 AM

SalonDavid Lynch's blend of beauty, dread and sinister jokes -- and Laura Dern's ...SalonWhether people are watching a Lillian Gish silent at a nickelodeon on Flatbush Avenue, watching a Lucas spac...

Broken Embraces - IndieMoviesOnline

Dec 11, 2009 8:25 AM

IndieMoviesOnlineBroken EmbracesIndieMoviesOnlineFrom its earliest days of DW Griffith and Lillian Gish, such teams come to mind as: Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich; George Cukor and Kathe...

Festival of Silent Films in Krakow - Krakow Post

Dec 11, 2009 4:38 AM

Festival of Silent Films in KrakowKrakow PostThe grand leading ladies of the silent film era are all represented: Pola Negri, Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish and Louise Brooks, amongst others. ...

'Tis the season for off-the-beaten-screen Christmas movies - The Tidings

Dec 10, 2009 3:40 PM

The Tidings'Tis the season for off-the-beaten-screen Christmas moviesThe TidingsRachel Cooper (silent film legend Lillian Gish) a feisty old lady, gives shelter to the children. Virtue triumphs at ...

The Broadway Boys come to Westport Country Playhouse - Connectcut Plus

Dec 10, 2009 1:34 AM

The Broadway Boys come to Westport Country PlayhouseConnectcut Plus... Little Sheba" with Shirley Booth, "The Trip to Bountiful" with Lillian Gish, and "Butterflies Are Free" with Keir Dullea and B...

Matt Cavenaugh and WEST SIDE STORY Host Children of 'Early Stages' Program ... - Broadway World

Dec 8, 2009 10:31 AM

Matt Cavenaugh and WEST SIDE STORY Host Children of 'Early Stages' Program ...Broadway WorldFounded in 1983 by theatre legends Alvin Ailey, Lillian Gish, Michael Bennett, Helen Hayes and Jack Gilfo...

Matt Cavenaugh and WEST SIDE STORY Host Children of 'Early Stages' Program Tonight, 12/8

Dec 8, 2009 10:26 AM

Excerpt ...they attend a performance of the smash hit Broadway revival of West Side Story. Founded in 1983 by theatre legends Alvin Ailey, Lillian Gish, Michael Bennett, Helen Hayes and Jack Gi...

From Silence to Sound – A Perilous Career Journey - Smart Data Collective (blog)

Dec 7, 2009 1:33 PM

From Silence to Sound – A Perilous Career JourneySmart Data Collective (blog)Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," made in 1915 and launching the career of Lillian Gish, is considered the first breakthro...

Westport Country Playhouse Presents The Klezmatics 12/17

Dec 4, 2009 1:43 PM

Excerpt ...Town" with Paul Newman, and in earlier years "Come Back, Little Sheba" with Shirley Booth, "The Trip to Bountiful" with Lillian Gish, and "Butterflies Are Free" with Keir Dullea and ...

'Deerpark' book weaves lively, rich town history - Times Herald-Record

Dec 3, 2009 11:40 PM

'Deerpark' book weaves lively, rich town historyTimes Herald-RecordThe part Cuddebackville played in the development of the movies has glamour written all over it, as the first great movie stars, M...

Handsome yet remote, James Mason broke the mold of a Hollywood idol - Boston Globe

Dec 2, 2009 11:28 AM

Boston GlobeHandsome yet remote, James Mason broke the mold of a Hollywood idolBoston Globe(Conversely, it can be enhancing for an actress; think of Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vanessa Redgrave, Mer...

He '02 Co-Authors Book on Filmmaker Tim Burton - Wesleyan Connection

Nov 30, 2009 8:12 AM

Wesleyan ConnectionHe '02 Co-Authors Book on Filmmaker Tim BurtonWesleyan ConnectionHer essay on actress Lillian Gish is forthcoming in an anthology published by MoMA on women artists in the museum...

The Reunion Tour, for Clothes Only - New York Times

Nov 24, 2009 11:47 AM

New York TimesThe Reunion Tour, for Clothes OnlyNew York TimesMs. Casas, the owner of Chelsea Girl and Laurel Canyon, looks like Lillian Gish playing an urban cowgirl in a Robert Altman film. Her r...

Critical Shopper: The Reunion Tour, for Clothes Only

Nov 24, 2009 11:42 AM

Excerpt ...After college, they both worked in the music industry. Ms. Casas, the owner of Chelsea Girl and Laurel Canyon, looks like Lillian Gish playing an urban cowgirl in a Robert Altman fi...

Stuart Oderman: talking to the piano player - Examiner.com

Nov 23, 2009 10:56 PM

Examiner.comStuart Oderman: talking to the piano playerExaminer.comA long time friend and correspondent of Lillian Gish, Oderman has also played for her films with the actress in attendance on more...

Vermont seasons (weather) play starring role in movies

Nov 19, 2009 5:08 AM

Excerpt ...braved brutal March conditions in White River Junction and Hartland. Typical of melodramas in the silent era, lead actress Lillian Gish portrayed a lady in distress. But, in her 1969...

Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter and Will & Jada Pinkett Smith Join FELA! Producing Team

Nov 16, 2009 1:33 PM

Excerpt Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Will & Jada Pinkett Smith have enthusiastically joined the producing team of Fela!, the new Broadway musical based on the life and music of African composer and...

Birth of a Nation, dir. D.W. Griffith

Nov 5, 2009 4:29 AM

Excerpt To distill the stylistic advances of over three hundred films, Griffith abandoned the fixed point of view of the audience in the stalls and made his camera selective. He saw that there ...

Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 3

Nov 2, 2009 9:16 PM

Excerpt 1916 A new play by a new playwright opens at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village, far from Broadway and Times Square, but the play and the author will soon revolu...

Taste of Tuscany

Oct 28, 2009 4:51 PM

Excerpt The following items appear on the various menus at Chovy's Italian Casual restaurant in Meadville: Tuscan potato chips; Tuscan turkey panini; Filet Toscano; Tuscan style grilled chicken...

Special something about 'Mary' doc just might connect with Academy voters

Oct 28, 2009 2:22 AM

Excerpt It's too bad Oscar voters can't transfer those five extra best picture noms to the documentary feature race, where having a few more slots would really come in handy. Among the docs alr...

Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 14

Oct 13, 2009 9:33 PM

Excerpt 1912 The first Broadway stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women with Alice Brady and Carson Davenport opens at the Playhouse Theatre. 1893 Lillian Gish, film acting pioneer...

Kim Morgan: Psycho Stepfather Supreme: Night of the Hunter

Oct 13, 2009 12:07 PM

Excerpt ...here is that, even as he loses himself in the role, you constantly fight a bizarre attraction to this animal (think of Lillian Gish's teenage orphan who can't resist) and then recoil...

John Galliano: Hollywood Divas Wake Up

Oct 11, 2009 9:48 PM

Excerpt His theme was a Hollywood awakening from a half-century long scriptwriters' strike, so the movie divas, in this case the models, were raring to go when they hit the catwalk on Wednesday...

Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 8

Oct 7, 2009 9:10 PM

Excerpt 1936 Hamlet opens tonight at the Empire Theatre. John Gielgud in the title role racks up 132 performances, a record at that time for any Shakespeare play on Broadway. Guthrie McClintic ...

Jeff Conaway (59)

Oct 4, 2009 10:04 PM

Excerpt This tall, good-looking romantic leading man became a heartthrob during his three-year (1978-81) stint playing out-of-work actor Bobby Wheeler on the ABC sitcom "Taxi", then left the se...

Treasures found

Oct 1, 2009 2:42 PM

Excerpt "Where else can you find a piece of Americana like this?" asks Jim It's just one of a hundreds of pieces of "treasure" that have found their way into a building in Town Plaza Shopping C...

FELA! Arrives On Broadway At The Eugene O'Neill Theatre 10/19

Sep 23, 2009 2:39 PM

Excerpt Fela! is produced by Stephen & Ruth Hendel, Roy Gabay, Edward Tyler Nahem, Chip Meyrelles/Ken Greiner and Daryl Roth/True Love Productions. THE CREATIVE TEAM Bill T. Jones (Conceiver ...

For Pete Seeger, the only downside of turning 90 is fame

Sep 11, 2009 2:52 AM

Excerpt loquacious: Singing — that's what he does. He sings for people, and people inevitably sing along with him. And in this year of firsts, singing at one of the world's great jazz festivals...

For Pete Seeger, the only downside of turning 90 is fame

Sep 11, 2009 2:52 AM

Excerpt loquacious: Singing — that's what he does. He sings for people, and people inevitably sing along with him. And in this year of firsts, singing at one of the world's great jazz festivals...

For Pete Seeger, the only downside of turning 90 is fame

Sep 11, 2009 2:52 AM

Excerpt loquacious: Singing — that's what he does. He sings for people, and people inevitably sing along with him. And in this year of firsts, singing at one of the world's great jazz festivals...

For Pete Seeger, the only downside of turning 90 is fame

Sep 11, 2009 2:52 AM

Excerpt loquacious: Singing — that's what he does. He sings for people, and people inevitably sing along with him. And in this year of firsts, singing at one of the world's great jazz festivals...

O'Shaughnessy: Folk icon inspires boatload of fun

Sep 7, 2009 1:44 PM

Excerpt Pete Seeger performs at Hunts Point Riverside Park, where he received Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Kids rowing by in wooden boats they built themselves, on the Bronx River at Hunts...

HAIR's Saycon Sengbloh Will Join Bdwy's FELA!, Previews Begin 10/19

Aug 30, 2009 11:31 AM

Excerpt HAIR's Saycon Sengbloh will join the cast of Fela!, the new Broadway musical based on the life and music of African composer and performer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. It was report earlier thi...

The Legacy of Florence Harding, a Most Modern First Lady

Aug 30, 2009 8:21 AM

Excerpt Katherine A. S. Sibley is the author of First Lady Florence Harding: Beyond the Tragedy and Controversy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009).  This past spring, first lady Mich...

UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News

Aug 14, 2009 11:09 AM

Excerpt LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Rocker Steven Tyler said he is grateful the tumble he took from a stage last week at an Aerosmith concert in Sturgis, S.D., wasn't worse. Tyler, 61, was h...

Pete Seeger to receive Gish Prize

Aug 14, 2009 5:08 AM

Excerpt NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. folk musician and human rights activist Pete Seeger has been named the winner of the 2009 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Seeger, 90, is to be presented ...

Broken Blossoms

Aug 11, 2009 5:00 PM

Excerpt American filmmaker D .W. Griffith essentially invented the template for what it means to be a director. He set the standard for the scope, vision, technical prowess and even polarizing ...

Ingmar Bergman: Dangerous liaisons

Aug 11, 2009 4:11 PM

Excerpt At times, when I was researching my book "Ingmar Bergman: the Life and Films of the Last Great European Director", I felt as if I was trespassing on hallowed turf. Since Bergman died tw...

Good Manners: Three Etiquette Tips that Will Increase Your Social IQ

Aug 11, 2009 12:51 PM

Excerpt Good manners have never been more important. Lillian Gish, a famous actress from the early days of film, stated it perfectly "You can get through life with bad manners but it's easier w...

Cinephile Summer Camp: A Dispatch from Tilda Swinton & Mark Cousins’ Magical “Pilgrimage”

Aug 10, 2009 11:24 AM

Excerpt Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins welcome "a pilgrimage." Photo by Peter Knegt. Eight and a half days ago, at a train station in a tiny Scottish village, I stood awkwardly with forty stran...

Live fast, act young: The stars who don't act their age

Jul 8, 2009 4:41 PM

Excerpt Childhood has always been a negotiable concept for Hollywood marketing chiefs. Right from the earliest days of silent movies, children in films have often been played by young adults wh...

Live fast, act young: The stars who don't act their age

Jul 8, 2009 4:41 PM

Excerpt Childhood has always been a negotiable concept for Hollywood marketing chiefs. Right from the earliest days of silent movies, children in films have often been played by young adults wh...

Carol Olson: Remembering a pair of acting legends

Jul 4, 2009 2:22 PM

Excerpt ...advice, and she speaks to him through the car. Then in 1987, she was nominated for an Academy Award for playing a neighbor of Lillian Gish and Bette Davis in a movie titled "The Whal...

Eva Marie Saint (85)

Jul 3, 2009 9:52 PM

Excerpt Though her film appearances were sporadic at best – less than 20 movies between 1955 and 2006 – Academy Award winner Eva Marie Saint enjoyed revered status among her peers due to her em...

Eva Marie Saint (85)

Jul 3, 2009 9:52 PM

Excerpt Though her film appearances were sporadic at best – less than 20 movies between 1955 and 2006 – Academy Award winner Eva Marie Saint enjoyed revered status among her peers due to her em...

Hanging out in La Jolla

Jun 28, 2009 2:02 AM

Excerpt It was early afternoon when we arrived, so we made our first stop at La Jolla Shores and bounded into the surf, desert denizens overwhelmed by the sudden abudance of water. It took an h...

Classic Movie Review: "The Unforgiven"

Jun 8, 2009 7:51 AM

Excerpt My classic movie review continues with some oldies, but goodies like "The Unforgiven." This old west drama starred Audrey Hepburn as Rachel Zachary and Burt Lancaster as her adopted bro...

Hush, hush: Silent Movie Mondays begin June 8

Jun 5, 2009 3:51 PM

Excerpt ...effect." Next up (June 15) is Henry King's 1924 pirate tale, "Romola," an adaptation of a George Eliot novel starring Lillian Gish and her sister, Dorothy, and featuring Ronald Colma...

Today In Theatre History: JUNE 4

Jun 3, 2009 9:32 PM

Excerpt ...70 years old. 1973 Mike Nichols' production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya opens at the Circle in the Square on Broadway. Lillian Gish, George C. Scott, Nicol Williamson, Julie Chri...

It's time to reclaim the word spinster

Jun 2, 2009 5:01 PM

Excerpt In the end it wasn’t a great week for Susan Boyle, so the least we can all do is reclaim the S-word from the grip of tragedy and the valley of dried-up tears. After all, marriage havi...

It's time to reclaim the word spinster

Jun 2, 2009 5:01 PM

Excerpt In the end it wasn’t a great week for Susan Boyle, so the least we can all do is reclaim the S-word from the grip of tragedy and the valley of dried-up tears. After all, marriage havi...

Lakeshore update: Point Creek area cleanup planned

May 28, 2009 4:12 AM

Excerpt TOWN OF CENTERVILLE The Point Creek Natural Area Management Committee is inviting interested volunteers to help remove invasive bush honeysuckle and build trails from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...

Lakeshore update: Point Creek area cleanup planned

May 28, 2009 4:12 AM

Excerpt TOWN OF CENTERVILLE The Point Creek Natural Area Management Committee is inviting interested volunteers to help remove invasive bush honeysuckle and build trails from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...

Yousuf Karsh and Edward Steichen exhibit opens at National Gallery

May 14, 2009 12:01 PM

Excerpt OTTAWA • In 1936, Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh paid his first visit to Edward Steichen's studio in New York. Steichen was the American celebrity portraitist of the time, whose image...

Faces of Successful Iranian Americans: Shirin Neshat: Pursuing a Dream

May 7, 2009 9:07 AM

Excerpt (Following is an excerpt from a publication in Persian, , by the Bureau of International Information Programs of the State Department.) "The most important message [I can give to other ...

Faces of Successful Iranian Americans: Shirin Neshat: Pursuing a Dream

May 7, 2009 9:07 AM

Excerpt (Following is an excerpt from a publication in Persian, , by the Bureau of International Information Programs of the State Department.) "The most important message [I can give to other ...

Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays Hits Paramount Theatre, First Screening 6/8

May 5, 2009 8:33 AM

Excerpt Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays this June at The Paramount Theatre, Mondays at 7:00 p.m. This all classic silent film series features lovely women...

Laughton Directs "The Night Of The Hunter"

May 1, 2009 9:21 AM

Excerpt The Night of the Hunter (1955) garners many accolades and praise for its spellbinding perfection. Like many classic film gems, at the time of the films release, it was not a critical n...

New Museum Theater Celebrates Bill T. Jones

Apr 22, 2009 3:58 AM

Excerpt The Visionaries Series at the New Museum spotlights leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and related disciplines of contemporary culture, whose inn...

New Museum Theater Celebrates Bill T. Jones

Apr 22, 2009 3:58 AM

Excerpt The Visionaries Series at the New Museum spotlights leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and related disciplines of contemporary culture, whose inn...

Valentina !

Mar 15, 2009 4:49 AM

Excerpt Actresses, awards and cinematic musings with Nathaniel R and guests At the Valentina exhibit -- very cool at the Museum of the City of New York. The gown to the left is for Hllywood bea...

Valentina !

Mar 15, 2009 4:49 AM

Excerpt Actresses, awards and cinematic musings with Nathaniel R and guests At the Valentina exhibit -- very cool at the Museum of the City of New York. The gown to the left is for Hllywood bea...

THE HAT SQUAD: HORTON FOOTE

Mar 5, 2009 3:42 AM

Excerpt Celebrated playwright Horton Foote has passed away at the age of 92. His plays explored the small moments that have great meaning in the lives of ordinary people. Mr. Foote wrote the sc...

Eyes On The Prize

Feb 24, 2009 7:41 AM

Excerpt For two decades now, the Pritzker Prize has mirrored the best and the worst in contemporary architecture. For many observers of the arts, indeed, the very idea of such a prize is deeply...

Eyes On The Prize

Feb 24, 2009 7:41 AM

Excerpt For two decades now, the Pritzker Prize has mirrored the best and the worst in contemporary architecture. For many observers of the arts, indeed, the very idea of such a prize is deeply...

Review-a-Day for Mon, Feb 23: Douglas Fairbanks

Feb 23, 2009 1:57 AM

Excerpt Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance A review by Robert Gottlieb Bounding, sprinting, diving, hurdling, he arrived in the last act in time to say "I love you" to the slim princes...

Review-a-Day for Mon, Feb 23: Douglas Fairbanks

Feb 23, 2009 1:57 AM

Excerpt Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance A review by Robert Gottlieb Bounding, sprinting, diving, hurdling, he arrived in the last act in time to say "I love you" to the slim princes...

Erno Laszlo: Rediscovering a Hollywood Classic

Feb 22, 2009 10:47 AM

Excerpt I love a good Hollywood story, and since the Academy Awards are tonight, I thought it would be a good time to talk about Erno Laszlo.  You may know his products from Saks, but you may n...

Note by Note, He Keeps The Silent-Film Era Alive

Feb 14, 2009 11:20 AM

Excerpt Stuart Oderman, who has performed alongside the likes of Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin, leaned against a piano at the Museum of Modern Art and reminisced about some numbers from...

Note by Note, He Keeps The Silent-Film Era Alive

Feb 14, 2009 11:20 AM

Excerpt Stuart Oderman, who has performed alongside the likes of Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin, leaned against a piano at the Museum of Modern Art and reminisced about some numbers from...

Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 25

Jan 25, 2009 2:50 AM

Excerpt 1915 It'll be 90 in the Shade for only 40 performances. The unpaid actors will refuse to go on in this musical with a Jerome Kern score and book by Guy Bolton. Richard Carle and Marie C...

An Old, Bad Idea for the Arts

Jan 23, 2009 3:13 PM

Excerpt By David A. SmithAs the economy struggles, one inevitably hears more and more about the very real problems facing the arts. It seems that every time one opens the paper, there's a new s...

DVDs you should have seen in 2008, but didn't

Jan 13, 2009 7:18 PM

Excerpt Well, here's one New Year's resolution I can actually fulfill. After that it's back to the booze and criminality! To the dismay of publicists and DVD distributors everywhere, this colum...

Hollywood he-man: In front of the camera and behind it, Clint Eastwood has made his mark

Jan 8, 2009 10:21 PM

Excerpt Old actors never die. They prefer to let their really old film characters die for them. Movie history is filled with the swan songs of late-life stars, running the geriatric gamut from ...

New Box Set Allows Viewers to Rediscover D.W. Griffith's Films

Jan 2, 2009 6:52 AM

Excerpt The director D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is probably best remembered for his 1915 epic, "The Birth of a Nation," the most ambitious and commercially successful film made in the United Sta...

New Box Set Allows Viewers to Rediscover D.W. Griffith's Films

Jan 2, 2009 6:52 AM

Excerpt ...Volume Two" ($89.95) includes only one famous film -- the Victorian tearjerker "Way Down East" (1920), with heroine Lillian Gish riding the ice floes down the Connecticut River -- bu...

Trapped and Tortured

Dec 22, 2008 4:23 PM

Excerpt Lee David Zlotoff's "The Spitfire Grill" tries to take a road less traveled to higher ground that's seldom explored by today's movies. This slender fable with religious overtones is con...

Film review: La Bohème

Dec 20, 2008 4:03 PM

Excerpt There have been numerous cinematic reworkings of Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème and of Puccini's opera, ranging from King Vidor's 1926 silent La bohème starring Lillian Gish ...

Griffith Masterworks 2 (Review)

Dec 18, 2008 10:35 PM

Excerpt A young and lovely woman sits near a fire attending to her knitting. An older, avuncular man enters. The woman smiles at him, rises, and moves toward the fire to light his pipe. The sce...

Una Merkel had looks for silent films, voice and talent for talkies

Dec 8, 2008 3:50 AM

Excerpt Known as a wisecracking supporting actress in classic motion pictures and later as a dramatic actress on the stage, Una Merkel was the only daughter of Arno E. Merkel Jr. and Elizabeth ...

William Gibson: Playwright best known for his depiction of Helen Keller, 'The Miracle Worker'

Nov 30, 2008 4:15 PM

Excerpt The playwright William Gibson wrote two of Broadway's most successful post-war plays, both of which enjoyed runs of nearly two years – Two for the Seesaw, a two-character piece depictin...

Unveiling silent-film era

Nov 27, 2008 9:15 PM

Excerpt What better place than a library for an exhibit on silent films? Photos, biographies, lobby cards, posters, and other items from the silent era are on display in "Silent Movies" at the ...

If the Shoe Fits

Nov 23, 2008 9:00 PM

Excerpt The Salvatore Ferragamo story could be a plot lifted straight out of a Fellini film: nine-year-old boy, one of 14 siblings living in a remote Italian village, takes up shoemaking. Somet...

Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: D. W. Griffith

Nov 17, 2008 9:03 PM

Excerpt D. W. Griffith, one of the most celebrated figures in American film, is probably the only silent-movie director whose name is known to the general public. And yet, as a new boxed set fr...

Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: D. W. Griffith

Nov 17, 2008 9:03 PM

Excerpt D. W. Griffith, one of the most celebrated figures in American film, is probably the only silent-movie director whose name is known to the general public. And yet, as a new boxed set fr...

Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 3

Nov 2, 2008 9:40 PM

Excerpt 1916 A new play by a new playwright opens at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village, far from Broadway and Times Square, but the play and the author will soon revolu...

2 brothers, perfect harmony

Nov 2, 2008 4:37 AM

Excerpt Music is a refrain that runs through families. Psychologists who study the developing psyche know the effect of music on human values, identity and culture. Take the case of two br...

2 brothers, perfect harmony

Nov 2, 2008 4:37 AM

Excerpt Music is a refrain that runs through families. Psychologists who study the developing psyche know the effect of music on human values, identity and culture. Take the case of two br...

If the Shoe Fits

Oct 30, 2008 9:16 PM

Excerpt The Salvatore Ferragamo story could be a plot lifted straight out of a Fellini film: nine-year-old boy, one of 14 siblings living in a remote Italian village, takes up shoemaking. Somet...

If the Shoe Fits

Oct 30, 2008 9:16 PM

Excerpt The Salvatore Ferragamo story could be a plot lifted straight out of a Fellini film: nine-year-old boy, one of 14 siblings living in a remote Italian village, takes up shoemaking. Somet...

Win Never Apologize DVDs and DVDs

Oct 28, 2008 5:11 AM

Excerpt ... Few knew Lindsay Anderson better than Malcolm McDowell: it was Anderson who launched McDowell's career by giving him his first starring role, as the rebellious Mick Travis in If…, w...

Griffith and Coppola

Oct 20, 2008 2:05 PM

Excerpt To the Editor: In his otherwise masterly article on Abel Gance's Napoleon [“Napoleon Conquers America,” April], Richard Grenier writes: “As history the film lies somewhere between Parso...

Two Great Actresses

Oct 14, 2008 4:33 AM

Excerpt Bookmark this article at these sites Profile America Tuesday, October 14th. Two of the leading figures of the American theater have birthdays noted this month. Lillian Gish was born o...

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2008 with 78 to follow.

Oct 14, 2008 2:31 AM

Excerpt Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include William Penn, the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, in 1644; Irish political leader Eamon de Valera in 1882; Dwi...

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2008 with 78 to follow.

Oct 14, 2008 2:31 AM

Excerpt Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include William Penn, the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, in 1644; Irish political leader Eamon de Valera in 1882; Dwi...

A Man Who Knew Everyone

Oct 3, 2008 4:26 PM

Excerpt Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) may be known today almost entirely as the man who wrote "Our Town" -- that theatrical chestnut about life and death in a small town -- but in his time he was...

Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: October 25, 1938):Special Guest: Silent-Film Star Lillian Gish

Sep 25, 2008 10:55 PM

Excerpt Information, Please! was one of the most popular, and literate, shows on American radio, airing from 1938-1948 and running briefly as a TV show in 1952. Its format was novel: instead of...

Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: October 25, 1938):Special Guest: Silent-Film Star Lillian Gish

Sep 25, 2008 10:55 PM

Excerpt Information, Please! was one of the most popular, and literate, shows on American radio, airing from 1938-1948 and running briefly as a TV show in 1952. Its format was novel: instead of...

Redford to receive Gish prize

Sep 24, 2008 1:56 PM

Excerpt Robert Redford will receive the 2008 Dorothy and Lillian Gish prize. In its 15th year, the kudo, which comes with a $325,000 grant, recognizes artists who have helped push the boundarie...

Robert Redford to receive Gish Prize

Sep 24, 2008 1:14 PM

Excerpt ...YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. actor, filmmaker and activist Robert Redford has been chosen to receive the 2008 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, it was announced Wednesday. © 20...

Trip to Bountiful, with Denver Favorite Brady, Begins Sept. 19 in CO

Sep 18, 2008 9:19 PM

Excerpt Denver Center Theatre Company opens its 2008-09 season with Horton Foote's rueful coming-home play, The Trip to Bountiful, directed by Penny Metropulos, Sept. 19-Oct. 25. In the Space T...

Goings on About Town: On the Horizon

Sep 7, 2008 9:06 PM

Excerpt “Rapture,” at the Fisher Center, at Bard College. Despite California’s superior light and climate, New York remained a center of movie production during the big-studio era. In conjuncti...

Goings on About Town: On the Horizon

Sep 7, 2008 9:06 PM

Excerpt “Rapture,” at the Fisher Center, at Bard College. Despite California’s superior light and climate, New York remained a center of movie production during the big-studio era. In conjuncti...

The Remarkable Gish Sisters

Sep 5, 2008 6:43 PM

Excerpt When siblings share the same profession, envy and competition can destroy family bonds. Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine were an example of this. Conversely, there were the Gish si...

The Remarkable Gish Sisters

Sep 5, 2008 6:43 PM

Excerpt When siblings share the same profession, envy and competition can destroy family bonds. Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine were an example of this. Conversely, there were the Gish si...

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

Sep 1, 2008 11:09 PM

Excerpt Although bolstered by pictorially outstanding clips, abundant private footage and running commentary from beyond the grave by the subject herself, "Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies...

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

Sep 1, 2008 11:09 PM

Excerpt Although bolstered by pictorially outstanding clips, abundant private footage and running commentary from beyond the grave by the subject herself, "Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies...

Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson, Opens: 08/15/2008

Aug 15, 2008 9:15 PM

Excerpt ... A live documentary of Malcolm McDowell's celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their highs and lows, and their encounters with colleagues Alan Bates, Bette Davis, John Ford, John Gielgud...

'A Wedding' at the Lobero Theatre

Aug 10, 2008 4:01 PM

Excerpt ... SANTA BARBARA -- Every wedding he ever attended was, in some way, a disaster, the late filmmaker Robert Altman claims in a featurette that accompanies the DVD of his 1978 comedy, "...

'A Wedding' at the Lobero Theatre

Aug 10, 2008 4:01 PM

Excerpt ... SANTA BARBARA -- Every wedding he ever attended was, in some way, a disaster, the late filmmaker Robert Altman claims in a featurette that accompanies the DVD of his 1978 comedy, "...

Orphan storm

Jul 8, 2008 10:15 PM

Excerpt It opens on a note of heavy moral correctitude, as titles inform us that "A woman, who pray God there be no more like, has offered for sale her unborn child. Think of it: a helpless lit...

Orphan storm

Jul 8, 2008 10:15 PM

Excerpt It opens on a note of heavy moral correctitude, as titles inform us that "A woman, who pray God there be no more like, has offered for sale her unborn child. Think of it: a helpless lit...

Mad Libs celebrates 50 years

Jul 5, 2008 6:10 PM

Excerpt My earliest memories of Mad Libs date to junior high, when Marcy Merti and I would explode into giggle fits over inappropriately placed nostrils, double-knit pilgrims and one particular...

Crime

Jun 23, 2008 9:55 PM

Excerpt Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Information for the crime section comes from reports provided by area law-enforcement agencies and collected by Repository staff members. CANTON...

Crime

Jun 23, 2008 9:55 PM

Excerpt Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Information for the crime section comes from reports provided by area law-enforcement agencies and collected by Repository staff members. CANTON...

The Blind Spot of 'Genius': Kojima and Griffith [Games And Film]

Jun 22, 2008 12:47 PM

Excerpt I'm really fond of the Brainy Gamer, mostly because Michael Abbott's posts almost always live up to the title of the blog; this week, he tackled the question of 'genius' and auteurs, am...

Music Review: Tiny Town, Quaint House, Big Voices

Jun 13, 2008 8:30 PM

Excerpt CENTRAL CITY, Colo. The city is not so central anymore, though it played host to a Republican convention of some sort in 1871 and was visited by President Ulysses S. Grant two years lat...

Music Review: Tiny Town, Quaint House, Big Voices

Jun 13, 2008 8:30 PM

Excerpt CENTRAL CITY, Colo. The city is not so central anymore, though it played host to a Republican convention of some sort in 1871 and was visited by President Ulysses S. Grant two years lat...

It’s a Deal: Fast Times at Beverly Hills’ Maison 140

Jun 10, 2008 3:29 PM

Excerpt Celebrities are always in need of posh escapes; less-expected is the posh escape to the home of a celebrity. Maison 140, named inconspicuously for its location on 140 South Lasky, was o...

TV films

May 30, 2008 8:40 PM

Excerpt Despite sometimes awkward attempts at modernity in facing racial problems, amythic quality evokes the old west in The Unforgiven (Virgin 1 Saturday 9.00pm). Audrey Hepburn may not convi...

TV films

May 30, 2008 8:40 PM

Excerpt Despite sometimes awkward attempts at modernity in facing racial problems, amythic quality evokes the old west in The Unforgiven (Virgin 1 Saturday 9.00pm). Audrey Hepburn may not convi...

Mad Libs at age 50: Put in a good word

Apr 17, 2008 6:32 AM

Excerpt My earliest memories of Mad Libs date to junior high, when Marcy Merti and I would explode into giggle fits over inappropriately placed nostrils, double-knit pilgrims, and one particula...

Virginia E. Lash

Apr 16, 2008 10:19 PM

Excerpt NAPLES, FL — Virginia E. (Zepp) Lash "Jinny," 87, of Westport Harbor, MA and Naples, Florida passed away in Naples on April 6, 2008. She was the beloved wife of Harold Lash to whom she ...

Popcorn & Candy: Love & Hate

Apr 10, 2008 3:16 PM

Excerpt DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. It seems that there have been a lot of film noir picks i...

Popcorn & Candy: Love & Hate

Apr 10, 2008 3:16 PM

Excerpt DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. It seems that there have been a lot of film noir picks i...

Silent Film Legends Lillian and Dorothy Gish

Mar 19, 2008 1:53 PM

Excerpt ...Gish and Dorothy Gish were actresses who were pioneers in the Hollywood movie industry. The Gish sisters made their mark in the silent movie era as actresses. Through the Lillian and...

Silent Film Legends Lillian and Dorothy Gish

Mar 19, 2008 1:53 PM

Excerpt Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish were actresses who were pioneers in the Hollywood movie industry. The Gish sisters made their mark in the silent movie era as actresses. Through the Lillia...

Award-winning Author Gish Jen to Speak at BHCC

Mar 5, 2008 2:48 PM

Excerpt BOSTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Award winning author and short story writer Gish Jen will speak at Bunker Hill Community College on Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Her presentation ...

Award-winning Author Gish Jen to Speak at BHCC

Mar 5, 2008 2:48 PM

Excerpt BOSTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Award winning author and short story writer Gish Jen will speak at Bunker Hill Community College on Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Her presentation ...

Inside George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch

Feb 27, 2008 9:30 AM

Excerpt ... The uninvited have been coming to Skywalker Ranch for decades, all drawn by the Force, however they choose to define it. Some don camouflage parkas and hike over the leafy Marin Co...

Inside George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch

Feb 27, 2008 9:30 AM

Excerpt ... The uninvited have been coming to Skywalker Ranch for decades, all drawn by the Force, however they choose to define it. Some don camouflage parkas and hike over the leafy Marin Co...

Silents at Washburn; classics at the Tivoli

Feb 21, 2008 10:17 AM

Excerpt Silents are goldenThe 12th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival begins today in White Concert Hall at Washburn University in Topeka.The free films — many shown with live musical ...

'M*A*S*H' memories have a home in Malibu

Feb 9, 2008 4:07 PM

Excerpt You could almost hear the distinctive thump-thump-thump of medevac choppers swooping in over the old "M*A*S*H" television series set in Calabasas. Except the only real noise here last w...

'M*A*S*H' memories have a home in Malibu

Feb 9, 2008 4:07 PM

Excerpt You could almost hear the distinctive thump-thump-thump of medevac choppers swooping in over the old "M*A*S*H" television series set in Calabasas. Except the only real noise here last w...

Mary Steenburgen (55)

Feb 7, 2008 9:27 PM

Excerpt This soft-spoken, offbeat, and appealing stage-trained actress won raves and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Melvin's flustered but caring wife in Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard...

Mary Steenburgen (55)

Feb 7, 2008 9:27 PM

Excerpt This soft-spoken, offbeat, and appealing stage-trained actress won raves and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Melvin's flustered but caring wife in Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard...

Writer/producer Robert Cunniff dies

Feb 5, 2008 4:45 PM

Excerpt Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer Robert Cunniff died Jan. 20 in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 81. Cuniff worked on influential news and talkshows including "The ...

Writer/producer Robert Cunniff dies

Feb 5, 2008 4:45 PM

Excerpt Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer Robert Cunniff died Jan. 20 in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 81. Cuniff worked on influential news and talkshows including "The ...

'MASH' camp comes alive

Feb 1, 2008 12:22 AM

Excerpt ... You could almost hear the distinctive thump-thump-thump of medevac choppers swooping in over the old "MASH" television series set in Calabasas. Except the only real noise here Thur...

Historian shares Lincoln insights in speech series

Jan 24, 2008 7:27 PM

Excerpt jason.wilson@journalstandard.com FREEPORT - Insights about 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's connection to Pretzel City were central themes of historian Bryon Andreasen'...

D.W. Griffith's silent treatment

Nov 2, 2007 6:02 AM

Excerpt Lillian Gish (left) plays Anna Moore, who experiences a humble redemption but not before being stranded on an ice floe (above) in "Way Down East." The National Gallery of Art is reviv...

The Legacy of Lillian Gish - FilmStew.com

Sep 3, 2007 4:52 PM

Excerpt Fourteen years after the passing of one of silent film's great stars, Springfield, Ohio is holding a party in her honor. Who was the greatest actress of the 20th century? It's a questio...

Chronicler of Chinese culture optimistic about U.S. diversity

Aug 14, 2006 1:42 PM

Excerpt ...than Scarsdale," Jen said. "It was extremely welcoming and extremely open." Jen was named after silent screen star Lillian Gish. The 50-year-old Jen's only giveaway to her ag...

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