Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Lloyd George: "Last week, with Dame Lloyd George and our daughter Megan, I entered a cinema. Said I as the film Ben Hur unreeled: 'I have never before watched a motion picture except at private projections in my own house...
...while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic...
...evening both musical and comic. A cinema actress seeking escape from an annoying, unbusinesslike producer, visits her graceful dancing and tinkling song upon Pleasantville, Kan., where she works as a skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here, wiggle around...
John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
...From Me (Reginald Denny). A young man is at great pains to bankrupt his large department store, in order to rid himself of a fiancée with designs upon his money. Hence, floorwalkers go roller-skating along the aisles, a "million dollar" fashion show is wedged into the film. He loses the undesirable fiancée, almost loses the store, wins the beautiful stenographer. But this, Take It From Me, is nothing to go out of the way to encounter...