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Two new releases of Pandora's Box coming this Fall
Two new releases of Pandora's Box, the sensational silent film starring Louise Brooks as Lulu, are scheduled to be released this Fall. Here is what we know.Criterion has just announced they will be...
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Reminder: A Girl in Every Port, starring Louise Brooks, screens at NY MoMA on...
A Girl in Every Port, the 1928 Howard Hawks silent film starring starring Louise Brooks and Victor McLaglen, is set to screen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on August 1. This special...
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Program notes: Howard Hawks' A Girl in Every Port, starring Louise Brooks
Here are the program notes I (Thomas Gladysz) wrote in 2013 for Howard Hawks'A Girl in Every Port when it was screened at the University of Wisconsin Cinematheque. The film will be screened on August 1...
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All Around the World with A Girl in Every Port (1928)
The 1928 Howard Hawks buddy film, A Girl in Every Port, tells the story of two sailors (Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong) and their romantic adventures in various ports around the world. The film...
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Love ’Em and Leave ’Em, starring Louise Brooks, SELLS OUT at BFI in London
Louise Brooks is a star.... today, more than ever!Just a week ago, the A Girl in Every Port (1928) screening at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) drew so many people that it had to moved to a larger room...
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In Memory of Louise Brooks
A dear friend, who once met Louise Brooks and spoke with her regularly and who now wishes to remain anonymous, sent me this snapshot of Louise Brooks'grave in Rochester, New York. It nearly brought me...
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The Show Off, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1926
The Show Off, featuring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1926. The film a satiric comedy about an insufferable braggart who disrupts the life of a middle-class family. While remembered today...
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Prix de beauté, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1930
Prix de beauté, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1930. In her last starring role and last European film, Louise Brooks plays a typist stuck in a dull job who wins a beauty contest. Like...
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The Street of Forgotten Men, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in...
The Street of Forgotten Men, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1925. The film underworld romance set among fake beggars and their “cripple factory” in the slums of the Bowery in New York...
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Louise Brooks, the Kansas Cleopatra
Louise Brooks, the Kansas Cleopatra . . . apparently so. A seller on eBay is currently offering a "LOUISE BROOKS the Kansas Cleopatra" t-shirt for sale. The seller (not me) says the shirts were...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, to screen on Silent Movie Day
This year, the annual Silent Movie Day will take place on September 29. Celebrations -- in the form of screenings -- are taking place all over the United States, as well as in Europe. Click on their...
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Nifty new illustrations of Louise Brooks
Corrine Adams is a gifted artist / illustrator and fan of Louise Brooks. Recently, she sent me some charming print-outs of her recent illustrations of Brooks, which she said have an "art-deco" look. In...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, rereleased in the UK
Now out in the UK is the Eureka / Masters of Cinema edition of Pandora's Box. This re-release of the 1929 German classic starring Louise Brooks comes as a region B Blu-ray with a run-time of 133...
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Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, to screen in Denver on September 27
The Denver Silent Film Festival has announced its opening night film will be William Wellman's acclaimed hobo drama, Beggars of Life (1928), starring Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen and Louise Brooks....
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Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1928
Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1928. Directed by William Wellman the year after he made Wings (the first film to win an Academy Award), Beggars of Life is a terse...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Ambler, PA
Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, will screen in Ambler, Pennsylvania (outside Philadelphia) on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 as part of the national silent movie day celebration. And what's more,...
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Overland Stage Raiders, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1938
Overland Stage Raiders, starring John Wayne, was released on this day in 1938. It was Louise Brooks' last film. In Overland Stage Raiders, the “Three Mesquiteers”(led by Wayne) fight bad guys in the...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Cambridge, Mass
Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, will screen at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusettson Friday, September 27 and Sunday, September 29, 2024 -- as part of a venerable theater's weekend...
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Reminder, Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Rochester, NY
This year, the now annual Silent Movie Day takes place on September 29, and to celebrate, the 95 year old Little Theater in Rochester, New York will screen Pandora's Box, which stars longtime Rochester...
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Alpha Video Releases 3 Film Louise Brooks Collection on DVD
JUST AN FYI: Alpha Video, a budget label, has just released the Louise Brooks Collection, a three film - three disc set comprised of the Eddie Sutherland directed It's the Old Army Game (1926), the...
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