El Paso Herald, Texas, January 6, 1928

Silent star profiles.

Top left - bottom right: Ivor Novello, Ramon Novarro, Sessue Hayakawa, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Farrell, John Barrymore, Lars Hanson, Buster Keaton.

After 101 years – and a $20 find at a yard sale – Clara Bow’s lost film premieres

The Pill Pounder, one of the key titles in the CV of the iconic flapper, has enjoyed a belated revival at the San Francisco Silent film festival

Film-maker Gary Huggins inadvertently snapped up a slice of lost silent film history at an auction in a car park in Omaha, Nebraska, that was selling old stock from a distribution company called Modern Sound Pictures. Hoping to bid on a copy of the 1926 comedy Eve’s Leaves that he had spotted on top of a pile, Huggins was informed that he could only buy the whole pallet of movies, not individual cans. The upside? The lot was his for only $20. 

Huggins soon discovered that his new pile of reels included 1923’s The Pill Pounder, a silent comedy that had been thought to be lost for decades. It is a short, two-reel film, shot on Long Island, New York, and directed by Gregory La Cava, best known for later classics such as My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937).

Philosopher in Meditation painted by Rembrandt (1606 - 1669)

bette davis in ex-lady (1933)

Sidney Poitier photographed by Gordon Parks, 1959.

Norma Shearer (1930s)

Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney enjoying some ice cream

Now, Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that’s a mother’s love, I want no part of it.

a place in the sun — 1951

Montgomery Clift

Elizabeth Taylor