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Salute Your Undershorts
Screens Story May 2, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: The secret Hollywood history behind No Pants Day
"...But the truth is actually much more sinister. New research has revealed that Trouser-Free Day was actually started in Hollywood in 1928 by a secret cabal of gin-soaked movie producers, writers, and actors interested as much in flaunting societal convention and toppling democracy as they were in making movies, a group that included such closet anarchists and degenerates as Norma Shearer, Conrad Veldt, Samuel Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor, Lillian Gish, Will Rogers, the entire cast of King Vidor's The Big Parade, and Wallace Beery (who, honoring the wishes of the other members of the group, kept his pants on)..."
Duel in the Sun
Film Review June 20, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: David O. Selznick produced and wrote the script (based on the novel by Niven Busch) for this sexually charged western. Jones plays a young woman of mixed race caught between...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: King Vidor. Starring: Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish..."
Something Weird
Screens Story February 16, 2001
by Jerry Renshaw
Description: How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.
"...Kodak's George Eastman House has one of the pre-eminent archives, with prints of such extremely rare film treasures as Georges Méliès' films from the turn of the century, the Lumière brothers' first experiments with film, a 1920 rendition of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone, and all the silent films of Cecil B. DeMille, King Vidor, Thomas Ince, and others..."
Hollywood Babble On
Screens Story July 25, 1997
by Alison Macor
"...She received much acclaim for her grittily realistic portrayal of the prison system and her ability to adapt her script for sound (a new technique at the time) through her inclusion of dramatic sound effects in George Hill's The Big House. Marion won an Academy Award for her moving portrayal of the relationship between an ex-prize fighter and his son in King Vidor's The Champ..."
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