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Tuesday, November 29, 2005: Old Hollywood
I love old Hollywood, and I just saw a fascinating and beautiful period piece tonight: "The Cat's Meow" about a death on William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. Charlie Chaplin is protrayed by Eddie Izzard, a character in his own right!
It reminded me about "RKO 281" which I saw a few months ago. It tells the story of Orson Welles trying to make "Citizen Kane, " and Hearst's campaign to destroy it when he finds out about the subject matter.
AND then there is the great book "Without Lying Down" by Cari Beauchamp, and about Frances Marion, one of the first screenwriters in Hollywood. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8227.html
She was friends with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Anita Loos, who wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." I have yet to see the documentary based on Beauchamp's book: http://milestonefilms.com/movie.php/without/
Perhaps I will rent "Chaplin" again with Robert Downey, Jr.
I love old Hollywood, and I just saw a fascinating and beautiful period piece tonight: "The Cat's Meow" about a death on William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. Charlie Chaplin is protrayed by Eddie Izzard, a character in his own right!
It reminded me about "RKO 281" which I saw a few months ago. It tells the story of Orson Welles trying to make "Citizen Kane, " and Hearst's campaign to destroy it when he finds out about the subject matter.
AND then there is the great book "Without Lying Down" by Cari Beauchamp, and about Frances Marion, one of the first screenwriters in Hollywood. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8227.html
She was friends with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Anita Loos, who wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." I have yet to see the documentary based on Beauchamp's book: http://milestonefilms.com/movie.php/without/
Perhaps I will rent "Chaplin" again with Robert Downey, Jr.
posted by unkljim @ 9:14 PM
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