Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Peg o' My Heart (Robert Z. Leonard, 1933) Cast : Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, J. Farrell MacDonald, Juliette Compton, Irene B...

Robert Donat and Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armor Countess Alexandra : Marlene Dietrich A.J. Fothergill : Robert Donat Duchess...

John Gilbert and Renée Adorée in The Cossacks Lukashka : John Gilbert Maryana : Renée Adorée Ivan : Ernest Torrance Prince Olenin Sti...

Lillian Gish in The Wind Letty : Lillian Gish Lige : Lars Hanson Roddy : Montagu Love Cora : Dorothy Cumming Beverly : Edward Earle ...

Henry Daniell and Greta Garbo in Camille Marguerite Gautier : Greta Garbo Armand Duval : Robert Taylor Baron de Varville : Henry Danie...

It has always struck me as odd that Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932) won the 1931-32 best picture Oscar, when Dinner at Eight , a simi...

Remembered today chiefly because it was the film that won Marie Dressler the best actress Oscar (for what was by no means her best screen ...

The Red Mill is a surprisingly well-preserved silent film, with crisp images -- the cinematography is by Hendrik Sartov, a Danish directo...

Two years before A Free Soul , Norma Shearer made this rather thin talkie, which shows clearly her evolution from silence into sound. She ...

It's been many a year since I read The Scarlet Letter , but I'm pretty sure that any high school students who think they can get b...

Watching Mary Pickford in The Love Light is exhausting. She is continuously on , rough-and-tumbling with her brothers, gamely sending the...