Harry Langdon -- The First Hundred Years -- November 12, 2024

Wichita Eagle, 06-November-1924

Harry Langdon's career at the Mack Sennett Studio was a great success, but short comedies did not get much room in ads unless they starred Charlie Chaplin. We see here that Alla Nazimova's Madonna of the Streets was considered the important part of the bill.

Wichita Eagle, 06-November-1924

Here is a larger view of the bit about Harry Langdon in "The First Hundred Years."

Spokane Chronicle, 04-November-1924

Sometimes the ads included a small image of Harry. This election night show promised that results would be "Projected Upon Victor Dessert's Building" across the street. Patrons inside the theater received announcements. 

Spokane Chronicle, 04-November-1924

Mme Nazimova in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -- April 1, 2021

Photoplay, January, 1921

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Artistic Excellence the Dominating Note of New Type of Production Starring Nazimova

Reviewed by C. S. Sewell

Quite different from anything previously presented on the screen is the Nazimova production, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Either from a reading of the novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, of Kate Douglas Wiggin and Charlotte Thompson's drama, hearing Strauss' opera or seeing the presentation on the stage during the vogue of a few years ago, the majority of picture patrons are doubtless familiar with the story or at least that portion dealing with the... 

Alla Nazimova 75 Years -- July 13, 2020

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Actress Alla Nazimova died 75 years ago today, on 13-July-1945. She was born in Russia and came to America early in the 20th Century.  After starring on Broadway, she moved to motion pictures.  She had some huge  hits, but two of her later starring films, which she had produced and financed, were flops and wiped out her fortune. 

Moving Picture World, 23-August-1919

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What Happens When Comedy Meets Tragedy? -- April 17, 2019

Moving Picture World, 12-April-1919

100 years ago this month, in April, 1919, Charlie Chaplin met with actress Alla Nazimova and director Herbert Blaché to look at stills from her latest movie, The Brat.

Moving Picture World, 23-August-1919

A colorful ad for The Brat.

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919

A severe windstorm hit "Hollywod" on 17-March-1917, damaging Chaplin's studio.  The article says he had finished shooting his next film, "Sunnyside."

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919

Meanwhile, back at Essanay, they were pushing rereleases of Chaplin movies.

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919

There is that word, "revivified," again.

Moving Picture World, 26-April-1919

World Film Corporation took over the distribution of some of the Essanays.

Moving Picture World, 26-April-1919

"Mr. Chaplin is the biggest box office bet in the world today because he projects entertainment pure and simple to all classes and conditions of audiences."

Moving Picture World 04-July-1914

The World Film logo featured an elephant.