Silent Movie Cornucopia...
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dangermousieToday's picspam of the day is courtesy of a silent stills website and is stills from a bunch of silent movies. I picked most because they had such delicious titles: "Changing Husbands," "Are Parents People?" (I've seen that one), "Her Body in Bond," "Putting Pants on Phillip," and "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model."
From ridiculous (Fifth Avenue):
To sublime (Barbed Wire):
Hah!
The look of the heroine in Remodeling her husband could stand some remodeling itself:
I do so wish cute men were delivered by Airmail:
Among Those Present is the very awesome Harold Lloyd:
The leads of Chu Chin Chow seem as taken-aback by cut-rate Orientalism as I am:
Probation Wife' lipstick makes her look more like Probation Hooker:
Big Parade. I have no snark as this anti-war WWI movie is one of my all-time favorites.
Why the Mysterious Lady that is Greta Garbo is clinging so to such a wimpy-looking man we will never know...
Red Dice seems to be the kind of gambling I could go for:
If this is supposed to be the office of Office Scandal, I don't want to venture a guess as to what kind of work they do there.
Putting Pants on Phillip provides us with an early case of false advertising by making the gentleman wear a kilt:
My Official Wife does not look pleased by the title:
Are Parents People? A question for the ages.
Night of Love or Grime of Love? You decide:
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model is sadly neither beautiful nor wearing a cloak. She is, however, horrified by the movie title.
The lady in the picture does not seem to be taken by the suggestion of Changing Husbands:
The Heroine does not want to pay up even if she did put Her Body in Bond.
Lady Windermere's Fan. Oscar Wilde would probably hit that.
Movies are realism. After all, we see this every day on Fifth Avenue:
Mystery of the Hindu Image. Yeah.
As published in Confessions of a Queen: "My husband is too old but he buys me the best headgear!"
If I marry again clearly I will need to get a room ASAP.
Gloria Swanson is not please by Affairs of Anatol. Anatol is sleeping on the couch tonight! (Btw, this movie is hilarious).
The heroines of Claw contemplate their disappointment that they are not in the world's first horror movie:
The hero of Seventeen is probably 117 now:
What with the lipstick on the "man" and the utterly male face of the "woman", The Barker looks like the first gay romance movie:
This movie has the right idea. Marriage can be a lot of fun!
Look at Harold Lloyd, all adorable as The Freshman!
A still from, IMO, the best silent movie ever made, King Vidor's bleak The Crowd:
Barbed Wire cannot stop their love, in this excellent movie dealing with the love of a Frenchwoman for a captured German officer during World War I and the opprobrium they suffer (I love this movie!).
From ridiculous (Fifth Avenue):
To sublime (Barbed Wire):
Hah!
The look of the heroine in Remodeling her husband could stand some remodeling itself:
I do so wish cute men were delivered by Airmail:
Among Those Present is the very awesome Harold Lloyd:
The leads of Chu Chin Chow seem as taken-aback by cut-rate Orientalism as I am:
Probation Wife' lipstick makes her look more like Probation Hooker:
Big Parade. I have no snark as this anti-war WWI movie is one of my all-time favorites.
Why the Mysterious Lady that is Greta Garbo is clinging so to such a wimpy-looking man we will never know...
Red Dice seems to be the kind of gambling I could go for:
If this is supposed to be the office of Office Scandal, I don't want to venture a guess as to what kind of work they do there.
Putting Pants on Phillip provides us with an early case of false advertising by making the gentleman wear a kilt:
My Official Wife does not look pleased by the title:
Are Parents People? A question for the ages.
Night of Love or Grime of Love? You decide:
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model is sadly neither beautiful nor wearing a cloak. She is, however, horrified by the movie title.
The lady in the picture does not seem to be taken by the suggestion of Changing Husbands:
The Heroine does not want to pay up even if she did put Her Body in Bond.
Lady Windermere's Fan. Oscar Wilde would probably hit that.
Movies are realism. After all, we see this every day on Fifth Avenue:
Mystery of the Hindu Image. Yeah.
As published in Confessions of a Queen: "My husband is too old but he buys me the best headgear!"
If I marry again clearly I will need to get a room ASAP.
Gloria Swanson is not please by Affairs of Anatol. Anatol is sleeping on the couch tonight! (Btw, this movie is hilarious).
The heroines of Claw contemplate their disappointment that they are not in the world's first horror movie:
The hero of Seventeen is probably 117 now:
What with the lipstick on the "man" and the utterly male face of the "woman", The Barker looks like the first gay romance movie:
This movie has the right idea. Marriage can be a lot of fun!
Look at Harold Lloyd, all adorable as The Freshman!
A still from, IMO, the best silent movie ever made, King Vidor's bleak The Crowd:
Barbed Wire cannot stop their love, in this excellent movie dealing with the love of a Frenchwoman for a captured German officer during World War I and the opprobrium they suffer (I love this movie!).
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Date: 2008-12-10 01:23 am (UTC)Guh Greta Garbo is so beautiful!
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Date: 2008-12-10 07:18 pm (UTC)A wealthy father turns his back on his son after he marries a woman whose mother is a bordello madame in this routine melodrama. Charlie Jordan (Lloyd Hughes) weds Jocelyn Margot (Doris Kenyon), much to the consternation of his father John (Hobart Bosworth). Charlie and his bride travel to a South Seas island where he takes a job on a plantation. Jeffrey Wingate (Frank Mayo) is sent by the elder Jordan to try to buy off Jocelyn and keep her out of the family. She refuses and soon gives birth to a son. Charlie dies and Jocelyn and her child return to San Francisco. She seeks vengeance by re-opening her mother's bordello and inviting John and his society friend to the event in an attempt to humiliate and discredit him. Joceyln backs down from the plan and earns the respect of her father-in-law, who gives his blessing for her to marry his personal secretary Wingate. Anna Q. Nilsson, Dorothy Brock, and Myrtle Stedman co-star.
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Date: 2008-12-10 07:29 pm (UTC)Do you rent/buy these or are they out there to download/watch somewhere? Silents aren't very available generally - I only saw Metropolis because my community college had it in the library (along with Birth of a Nation which we watched in my cinema class & um.. that's an interesting movie....) & I had to buy it off Amazon.
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Date: 2010-09-08 05:55 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing the pics!
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