▼
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
26 May 2025

On an Eminent Author's Lost Film

›
A brief addendum to last week's post on Basil King's 1912 novel The Street Called Straight .    Seven Basil King novels have made it...
19 May 2025

The Long and Winding Street

›
The Street Called Straight By the author of The Inner Shrine [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1912 415 pages Olivia Guion seems a most dislik...
22 February 2025

Elinor Glyn Saturday Movie Matinee

›
An addendum to last week's post on Beyond the Rocks by Elinor Glyn . A lost film found! I first read about  Beyond the Rocks in univer...
2 comments:
17 February 2025

No Holiday Amusement

›
Beyond the Rocks: A Love Story Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [1922] 327 pages In the afterglow of Valentine's Day comes a tale of forb...
2 comments:
07 November 2024

Mishandled by Hollywood?

›
An addendum to last week's post on "Woman-handled" by Arthur Stringer .   Much of yesterday was spent reading 'The Surviva...
01 November 2024

Handled by the Saturday Evening Post

›
'Woman-handled' Arthur Stringer The Saturday Evening Post , volume  197, issue 44 May 2, 1925 A critic writes: "In your New Yea...
09 October 2024

Pearl White is The White Moll!

›
The Moving Picture World 2 October 1920 A follow-up to last week's post on Frank L. Packard's The White Moll . TheWhite Moll was the...
01 October 2024

A Feminine Jimmie Dale?

›
The White Moll Frank L. Packard New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 306 page s Walt Disney failed to interest NBC in  Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gr...