
Piece: The first Academy Award for Best Actor, which Emil Jannings won for his performances in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. 1928.
Where: Filmmuseum Berlin.


Piece: The first Academy Award for Best Actor, which Emil Jannings won for his performances in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. 1928.
Where: Filmmuseum Berlin.

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Until I heard yesterday’s announcement that David Bowie is planning to release an new album, I had been half-thinking that he had secretly died sometime during his last decade of relative silence. Thank goodness this isn’t the case and here’s hoping that the new material will be at least up to snuff with where he left off 10 years ago because if I recall correctly he was on something of a tear. The new single seems like a good start.
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Posted in cinema, context, cute couple alert

“Mary Pickford‘s first real part, playing opposite David Miles, in ‘The Violin Maker of Cremona,’ a one-reel drama released by Biograph July 7, 1909.”

“‘The Lonely Villa,’ a Griffith one-reel melodrama produced at Biograph in 1909, with Marion Leonard, at the telephone, and Mary Pickford at her right.”

“Mary Pickford, pictured in 1916 when the fate of half a dozen motion picture corporations hung in the balance as the producers battled to get her name on a contract.”