#herbert brenon

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Peter Pan (1924) Directed by Herbert Brenon

#Peter Pan 1924 #Herbert Brenon #literature #Peter and Wendy #j.m. barrie #userfish #userbunneis #userlaro #userlockescoles #userraffa #tuserheidi #singinprincess #userelio #filmgifs #classicfilmblr #fyeahmovies #ours #by natty

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Lon Chaney and Loretta Young in Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

"Director Herbert Brenon loved to pick on and ridicule a 14-year-old Loretta Young in her first big role, but was civil with her whenever Lon Chaney was present on the set. Chaney noticed this and never left her side, even if his character wasn't needed for shooting that day. He directed her throughout the shoot and became her surrogate father on the project. "I shall be beholden to that sensitive, sweet man until I die", said Young of Chaney." source

#laugh clown laugh #lon chaney #lon chaney sr. #loretta young #1928 #1920s movies #herbert brenon #drama

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PETER PAN (1924)

#peter pan #peter pan 1924 #betty bronson #classicfilmsource #mine #herbert brenon #here am I queue me

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William E. Shay-Theda Bara "Kreutzer sonata" 1915, de Herbert Brenon.

#Theda Bara #William E. Shay #Herbert Brenon

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The Spanish Dancer (1923)

#the spanish dancer #pola negri #herbert brenon #1923

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Films Watched in 2023:

15. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - Dir. Herbert Brenon

#Laugh Clown Laugh #Herbert Brenon #Lon Chaney #Loretta Young #Nils Asther #Bernand Siegel #Silent Cinema #Films Watched in 2023 #My Edits #My Post

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A Lon Chaney Double Feature

Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924)

Cast: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott, Ford Sterling, Tully Marshall. Screenplay: Carey Wilson, Victor Sjöström; titles: Marian Ainslee; based on a play by Leonid Andreyev. Cinematography: Milton Moore. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

He Who Gets Slapped is not a film for coulrophobes (people with a fear of clowns). It's crawling with them, performing antics that are supposed to be, to judge from the hilarity they induce in the audiences shown in the film, side-splittingly funny. The film seems to be based on the highly dubious premise that watching someone get slapped repeatedly is one of the funniest things ever. (There may be people who think so, to judge from the perennial popularity of the Three Stooges.) The whole movie is an artificial concoction, anyway, and only the brilliance of Lon Chaney gives it some grounding in real-life feeling. It was one of the films that launched the MGM studios on the road to Hollywood dominance, and the first one to feature Leo the Lion in the credits. It's also a film that contemporary audiences should watch to see the young Norma Shearer, when she was at her freshest and most natural. In He Who Gets Slapped, her love interest is John Gilbert. It was only after the advent of sound that Shearer's husband, MGM's creative director Irving G. Thalberg, decided to make her into a great lady, the cinematic equivalent of Katharine Cornell, putting her into remakes of Broadway hits like The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin, 1934), which had starred Cornell, or Strange Interlude (Robert Z. Leonard, 1932), which had featured another theatrical diva, Lynn Fontanne. She is barely in her 20s in He Who Gets Slapped, however, and she's delightful, with no trace of the diva to come.

Lon Chaney and Loretta Young in Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Laugh, Clown, Laugh, Herbert Brenon, 1928

Cast: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald, Nils Asther, Gwen Lee. Screenplay: Elizabeth Meehan; titles: Joseph Farnham; based on a play by David Belasco and Tom Cushing. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Marie Halvey.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh puts him in clown makeup again, but the film is a grand showcase for Chaney, whose reputation as the man of a thousand faces was somewhat misleading. He had one well-worn face that, no matter how much he distorted or disguised it, shone through. Here he's given an opportunity to perform without disguise through much of the film, and the range of expressions available to him is astonishing. The leading lady is 14-year-old Loretta Young. That she often looks her age is one of the more disturbing things about the film, in which she's supposed to be in love with both Chaney, who was 45, and the improbably pretty Nils Asther, who was 31. The cinematography is by James Wong Howe. Laugh, Clown, Laugh was eligible for Oscar nominations in the first year of the Academy Awards, and Chaney should have received one. The closest the film came to an award was the one that Joseph Farnham received for title writing (the one and only time the award was presented). But Farnham's award was for the body of his work over the nomination period, and not for a particular film.

#He Who Gets Slapped #Laugh Clown Laugh #Victor Sjöstróm #Herbert Brenon #Lon Chaney #Norma Shearer #Loretta Young

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There is no reference to the third girl in the photo of Herbert Brenon on the set of Peter Pan (1924). Herb was born in Dublin, and had 124 director credits from 21 1912 shorts to 1940. He was Oscar nominated at the first Oscar ceremony for the long forgotten Sorrell and Son. His other notable credits include silent versions of Beau Geste and The Great Gatsby, and Laugh Clown Laugh with Lon Chaney.

#peter pan #herbert brenon #sadie campbell #crystal rapp

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#pola negri #adolphe menjou #the spanish dancer #herbert brenon #1923 #goya

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Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) Herbert Brenon

July 20th 2022

#laugh clown laugh #1928 #herbert brenon #lon chaney #loretta young #bernard siegel #nils asther #cissy fitzgerald

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On December 21, 1928 Laugh, Clown Laugh debuted in the Netherlands.

#laugh clown laugh #laugh clown laugh 1928 #herbert brenon #lon chaney #romantic film #romantic drama film #romantic drama #silent films #silent film #1920s film #1920s #black and white film #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

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Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

#laugh clown laugh #lon chaney #lon chaney sr. #1928 #1920s movies #herbert brenon #drama #vintage movie ads

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Affiche du film "Ris donc, Paillasse !" (Laugh, Clown, Laugh), drame muet américain réalisé par Herbert Brenon avec Lon Chaney et Loretta Young - 1928

#et pendant ce temps-là #cinéma #cinema #film #movie #film muet #silent movie #drame #drama #ris donc paillasse ! #laugh clown laugh #affiche de film #film poster #lon chaney #loretta young #herbert brenon #1928

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Pola Negri-Antonio Moreno "La bailarina española" (The spanish dancer) 1923, de Herbert Brenon.

#Pola Negri #Antonio Moreno #Herbert Brenon

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The Flying Squad (1940)

"If I go, it will be of my own volition!"

"Yeah, and if you don't go, the volition will be from my boot. Come on, get out."

#the flying squad #1940 #edgar wallace #crime film #thriller #british cinema #films i done watched #doreen montgomery #herbert brenon #sebastian shaw #phyllis brooks #jack hawkins #basil radford #manning whiley #ludwig stössel #kathleen harrison #cyril smith #henry oscar #kynaston reeves #allan jeayes #something else dug up from the deep dark pit of my drafts; this is maybe 5 or 6 yrs old and perhaps as a side effect of being such #an old draft i was unable to add more tags so im editing this after posting. yeah i definitely intended to write a whole thing about this #bc at the time i was writing reviews of edgar wallace films as i watched them; as i said this is an old old draft and alas i remember #more or less nothing of this film and so i have nothing to add here... i think it was probably ok? #like several other Wallace properties this was adapted multiple times and there had already been a few versions by 1940 in fact

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21 giugno … ricordiamo …

21 giugno … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Elettra Romani, attrice teatrale, comica e cabarettista italiana. Nel 1949 esordì come ballerina di avanspettacolo, poi soubrette, e infine attrice sia drammatica che brillante. Nel 1959 si unì professionalmente e sentimentalmente al comico Alfonso Tomas con cui svolse tournée di avanspettacolo: i due poi nel 1980 formarono il “Duo Tomas”, coppia comica cabarettistica. Nel 1990 lavora in…

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#21 giugno #21 giugno morti #Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon #Allyn Joslyn #Allyn Morgan Joslyn #Carl Rogers #Carlos Romero #Carroll O&039;Connor #Elettra Romani #Elliott Reid #Emma Danieli #Herbert Brenon #John Carroll O&039;Connor #Mario Besesti #Nazzareno Natale #Remo Remotti #Richard Adler #Ricordando .. #Ricordiamo #Susan Bernard #Ted Reid #Valentina Fortunato