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Betty Compson-Richard Barthelmess "Weary river" 1929, de Frank Lloyd.

#Betty Compson #Richard Barthelmess #Frank Lloyd

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The Last Flight, the 1931 English-language film. In the shot below are (left to right) David Manners, Helen Chandler (as the girl they befriend), Richard Barthelmess, John Mack Brown and Elliott Nugent.

#vintage #beauty #smoking cigarette #sexy smoking #cigarette #sexy smoker #actress #hollywood #actor #the last flight #1931 #david manners #helen chandler #richard barthelmess #john mack brown #elliott nugent

[citizenscreen]

Richard Barthelmess training for his role in Alfred Santell’s THE PATENT LEATHER KID (1927).

#richard barthelmess

[adrian-paul-botta]

Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish - Way Down East

#Richard Barthelmess #lillian gish #Way Down East

[markonpark]

Richard Barthelmess. Vintage promotional photo of the Hollywood silent film star. https://markonpark.etsy.com/listing/1600404462

#richard barthelmess #old hollywood #silent films #silent film star

[daniellesdarrieux]

Bessie Love & Richard Barthelmess in Soul Fire (1925)

#richard barthelmess #bessie love #1920s #silent film #classicfilmedit #rbpics #juliaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #that jawline amiriiiiiiiight?

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More coverage of the Tailwaggers party, this time in Photoplay!

Bette Davis in a dress by Orry-Kelly with a puppy

Norma Shearer with a Cleopatra haircut

Mary Pickford and Richard Barthelmess

Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck and a very wise looking dog

#bette davis #orry-kelly #norma shearer #barbara stanwyck #mary pickford #richard barthelmess #robert taylor #1930s

[nathancone]

Movie watch: HEROES FOR SALE (1933)

I've been slowly making my way through a William Wellman pre-code set I acquired a few years ago and finally popped on this film about two WWI veterans and the diverging paths they take following the war. For most of the film, we follow Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess), who returns home with a bad morphine addiction after being treated for injuries at the front.

He loses his job, but kicks the drug habit, landing in Chicago where things begin to look up as he finds work, love, and a steady upward climb. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes and Tom is pulled away from his son, and back on the streets among the thousands of men out of work in the Great Depression.

Owing to its pre-code production, "Heroes For Sale" deals frankly with drug addiction, police brutality, and corruption. There's a silver lining at the end of the picture, but it's otherwise a bleak look at the state of America in the early 1930s. Recommended.

#pre code movies #Great Depression #1930s #William Wellman #richard barthelmess

[byneddiedingo]

Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

Cast: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Berenger, Nathan Selby. Screenplay: D.W. Griffith, based on a story by Thomas Burke. Cinematography: G.W. Bitzer. Film editing: James Smith.

The raw pathos of Broken Blossoms has probably never been equaled on film, thanks to three extraordinary performers. Lillian Gish is a known quantity, of course, but it's startling to see Donald Crisp as one of the most odious villains in film history. Crisp, whose film-acting career spanned more than fifty years, from the earliest silent shorts through his final performance in Spencer's Mountain (Delmer Daves, 1963), is best known today for fatherly and grandfatherly roles in How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941), Lassie Come Home (Fred M. Wilcox, 1943), and National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1944), but his performance as Battling Burrows is simply terrifying. As the cockney fighter, he displays a macho strut that might have influenced James Cagney. Richard Barthelmess is no less impressive as Cheng Huan, known in the film mostly as The Yellow Man. We have to make allowances for the stereotyping and the "yellowface" performance today, but Barthelmess (and Griffith) deserve some credit for ennobling the character, running counter to the widespread anti-Asian sentiments and fear of miscegenation in the era. Barthelmess, who became a matinee idol, makes The Yellow Man simultaneously creepy and sympathetic. And then there's Gish, who as usual throws herself (almost literally) into the role of the waif, Lucy. It's an astonishing performance that virtually defined film acting for at least the next decade, until sound came in and actors could rely on something other than their faces and bodies to communicate. True, some of her gestures lent themselves to parody, as when Buster Keaton steals Lucy's trick of pushing up the corners of her mouth to force a smile in Go West (1925), but parody is often the sincerest form of flattery.

#Broken Blossoms #D.W. Griffith #Lillian Gish #Richard Barthelmess

[howardhawkshollywood]

Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess make an awkward triangle in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). John Carpenter recently listed his 10 greatest films for the British film magazine Sight and Sound's decennial list of the 100 greatest films. Only Angels Have Wings was one of four Howard Hawks films on Carpenter's list that included Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo and Scarface.

John Carpenter names the 10 greatest films of all time (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

#cary grant #rita hayworth #richard barthelmess #only angels have wings

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The Last Flight (1931) William Dieterle

April 15th 2024

#the last flight #1931 #william dieterle #richard barthelmess #helen chandler #david manners #johnny mack brown #elliott nugent #walter byron #single lady #spent bullets #pre-code #PreCodeApril

[gatutor]

Helen Chandler-Richard Barthelmess "Midnight Alibi" 1934, de Alan Crosland.

#Helen Chandler #Richard Barthelmess #Alan Crosland

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Schallert, E. (1930). "Are The Stars Good Parents?" Picture-Play Magazine, Vol.31~32, p.72

#richard barthelmess #mary hay barthelmess #mary barthelmess

[citizenscreen]

Richard Barthelmess, Jean Harlow, Mervyn LeRoy, and Paul Muni at a dinner at Warner Bros to Honor Naval Officers and Congressmen.

#richard barthelmess #jean harlow #mervyn leroy #paul muni

[adrian-paul-botta]

Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish ''Way Down East''

#lillian gish #Richard Barthelmess #Way Down East

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Richard Barthelmess. Vintage promotional photo of the Hollywood silent film star. https://markonpark.etsy.com/listing/1600404462

#richard barthelmess #silent film #silent film star #vintage hollywood #promotional photo