Thousand Horsemen for Griffith's "America" -- October 10, 2023

Motion Picture News, 06-October-1923

I have never seen The White Rose, which was shot on locations in the south. Mae Marsh had worked with Griffith since the Biograph. Ivor Novello was born in Wales. He was a playwright, a composer and singer. Someone called him "a minor league Noel Coward." Carol Dempster, Griffith's protégé, also played a leading role.

Motion Picture News, 27-October-1923

Film Daily, 27-October-1923

DW Griffith gathered many relics of the Revolutionary War when he went to New England to shoot some scenes for America. 

Motion Picture News, 13-October-1923

DW Griffith -- A Big Revolutionary Film With a Big Idea Behing It -- September 8, 2023

Motion Picture News, 29-September-1923

I have never seen The White Rose, which was shot on locations in the south. Mae Marsh had worked with Griffith since the Biograph. Ivor Novello was born in Wales. He was a playwright, a composer and singer. Someone called him "a minor league Noel Coward." Carol Dempster, Griffith's protégé, also played a leading role.

Film Daily, 07-September-1923

"The White Rose is a Griffith masterpiece."

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Motion Picture News, 01-September-1923

The White Rose was a hit at San Francisco's Strand Theater. By the time I went to the Strand, it was showing quadruple features and was a popular place for homeless people to sleep.

Film Daily, 14-September-1923

Theater owner Sid Grauman liked it, too. 

Omaha Bee, 16-September-1923

Motion Picture News, 29-September-1923

The DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) encouraged Griffith to make America, and epic about the Revolutionary War.

Film Daily, 10-September-1923

DW Griffith -- Jolson's Desertion -- July 8, 2023

Film Daily, 09-July-1923

Last month we saw that director DW Griffith wanted to make a movie with Al Jolson who was well-known for performing in blackface. Jolson jumped ship after work started on Black Magic. There was talk of a lawsuit. I have also seen the film referred to as Mammy's Boy. 

Sources say that the same script was eventually produced by someone else as "His Darker Self" with Lloyd Hamilton. I have seen that movie and cannot picture it as a Griffith film. 

Motion Picture Magazine, July, 1923

I have never seen The White Rose, which was shot on locations in the south. Mae Marsh had worked with Griffith since the Biograph. Ivor Novello was born in Wales. He was a playwright, a composer and singer. Someone called him "a minor league Noel Coward." Carol Dempster, Griffith's protégé, also played a leading role. 

Film Daily, 08-July-1923

After Jolson bailed out, Griffith was working on his historical epic, America. I suspect I will be writing quite a lot about that movie.

Ivor Novello 125 -- January 15, 2018

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I think I first learned about Ivor Novello in Truffaut's Hitchcock.  I thought, what a funny name.  Later I saw Blackmail.  Novello was good as the potential serial killer.  Later I learned that Ivor Novello was not his original name.  Later I learned that he was a songwriter and I knew some of his songs.  He was born 125 years ago today, on 15-January-1893.

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