It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Great illustrated article about the entertainment industry, sensationalist media and censorship in the 1920’s:
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Vanities/
Featuring: Ziegfeld Follies, chorus girls, Nita Naldi, bathing beauties, Louise Brooks, “Anything Goes”, Buster Keaton, Tarzan and the Sheik, cocaine, murder, Woodbury’s soap, American Intelligence vs. Anglo-Saxon Civilization.
See also: The E Pluribus Unum Project
In homage to a great piece of cinema history, and a lovely breed of canines, I present to you the first official portrait of the mysterious Dux of Ginestra. Dux mea lux! Evviva!
“The German people are wonderful. They do not touch you, yet they have their arms around you – always.”
From Photoplay, May 1928
“And Ber-lin!” Would that we could reproduce Greta Garbo’s enunciation of Ber-lin. The love there is in it. “I will never forget when I came to it. The smell of the City. An amazing [...]
My genius sister once asked me something about whom I would cast to play the characters in Goldenbird, just for fun. That was terribly hard to answer. In fact, I didn’t come up with any good answers then.
But imagine my surprise when I found the perfect Falco, while looking for something completely different…
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