Word: novarro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage version of the general's work had been running 21 years, had been seen by 20 million fans, had grossed $10 million. In 1926, M-G-M turned it into the first of the cinemammoths, a $4,000,000, two-hour spectacle starring Ramon Novarro as Ben-Hur and Francis X. Bushman as Messala. By 1936, the film had grossed almost $10 million, and the book had become the biggest bestseller (more than 2,000,000 copies) in U.S. history, not counting the Bible...
From the first night (Faust, sung in Italian, with Christine Nilsson as Marguerite, Campanini in the title role, and Franco Novarro as Mephistopheles), regular seat holders howled about obstructed views, and singers complained about the strenuous demands the huge house placed on their voices. But nobody ever complained about the acoustics: Architect Cady had the good sense to face the auditorium with wood and to build an egg-shaped masonry sound chamber beneath the orchestra pit. During its early years, the Met removed the seats, held charity balls and a flower show on the orchestra floor. When Impresario Henry Abbey...
...they continue to play around the world. A few well-remembered oldtimers are still on the list: No. 21, The Big Parade (1925), with John Gilbert, $5,500,000; No. 46, The Four Horsemen (1921), with Rudolph Valentino, $4,500,000; No. 83, Ben Hur (1926), with Ramon Novarro...
...others: a 1913 four-reeler with James K. Hackett and Alan Hale, a 1922 adaptation with Lewis Stone, Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, a 1937 production with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Raymond Massey and Douglas Fairbanks...
...from balcony boxes to backstage. Ferrer makes a smartly menacing Marquis, and Granger is a fine, swashbuckling figure, although he suggests little of that "gift of laughter" of which Sabatini wrote. Also on hand, in a minor role: Lewis Stone, now 72, who played the villainous Marquis to Ramon Novarro's Scaramouche in MGM's 1923 silent version...