Showing posts with label 1927. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1927. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Monday, November 4, 2024

On this day in movie history - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927):


Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

aka Sunrise,
directed by F.W. Murnau,
written by Carl Mayer, Hermann Sudermann, Katherine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell,
based on the short story The Excursion to Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann,
was released in the United States on November 4, 1927.
Music by R.H. Bassett, Carli Elinor, Erno Rapee, Hugo Riesenfeld, Willy Schmidt-Gentner.
Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod.
A minor prelude by Frédéric Chopin.


Cast:

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ralph Sipperly, Jane Winton, Arthur Housman, Eddie Boland, Herman Bing, Sidney Bracey, Gino Corrado, Vondell Darr, Sally Eilers, Gibson Gowland, Fletcher Henderson, Leon Janney, Thomas Jefferson, Bob Kortman, F.W. Murnau, Barry Norton, Robert Parrish, Sally Phipps, Tempe Pigott, Harry Semels, Phillips Smalley, Leo White, Clarence Wilson.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Born on this day – Jane Arden:


Jane Arden


Director

Actress

Singer

Writer

October 29, 1927 – December 20, 1982

Credits:

A Gunman Has Escaped (1948); Anti-Clock (1979); Armchair Theatre (1956–1961); Black Memory (1947); Curtains for Harry (1955); Dali in New York (1965); Die Party (1963); Five More (1966); ITV Television Playhouse (1956 / 1957); New Release (1966); Separation (1968); Six (1965); The Other Side of Underneath (1972); The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1947); The Wednesday Play (1964–1965); Tuesday's Documentary (1970); Vibration (1975).

Monday, October 28, 2024

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Friday, October 18, 2024

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Born on this day – Barbara Mertz:


Barbara Mertz


Writer

September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Gothic Treasure Trove (1987); A River in the Sky (2010); Amelia Peabody Omnibus (2012); Amelia Peabody's Egypt (2003); Ammie, Come Home (1968); AZ Murder Goes... Artful (1997); Be Buried in the Rain (1985); Black Rainbow (1982); Borrower of the Night (1973); Children of the Storm (2003); Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975); Devil May Care (1977); Die for Love (1984); Greygallows (1972); Guardian of the Horizon (2004); He Shall Thunder in the Sky (2000); Here I Stay (1983); Historical Whodunits (1993); House of Many Shadows (1974); Houses of Stone (1993); Into the Darkness (1990); Legend in Green Velvet (1976); Lion in the Valley (1986); Lord of the Silent (2001); Malice Domestic 1 (1992); Malice Domestic 14 (2019); Malice Domestic 2 (1993); More Malice Domestic (1997); Naked Once More (1989); Night Train to Memphis (1994); Other Worlds (1999); Patriot's Dream (1976); Prince of Darkness (1969); Red Land, Black Land (1967); Search the Shadows (1987); Seeing a Large Cat (1997); Shattered Silk (1986); Silhouette in Scarlet (1983); Smoke and Mirrors (1989); Someone in the House (1981); Sons of the Wolf (1967); Stitches in Time (1995); Street of the Five Moons (1978); Summer of the Dragon (1979); Tales of the Uncanny (1983); Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs (1964); The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998); The Camelot Caper (1969); The Copenhagen Connection (1982); The Crying Child (1971); The Curse of the Pharaohs (1981); The Dancing Floor (1997); The Dark on the Other Side (1970); The Dead Sea Cipher (1970); The Deeds of the Disturber (1988); The Falcon at the Portal (1999); The Golden One (2002); The Grey Beginning (1984); The Hippopotamus Pool (1996); The Jackal's Head (1968); The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991); The Laughter of Dead Kings (2008); The Locked Tomb Mystery: And Other Stories (2018); The Love Talker (1980); The Master of Blacktower (1966); The Mummy Case (1985); The Murders of Richard III (1974); The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits (1971); The Painted Queen (2014); The Sea King's Daughter (1975); The Serpent on the Crown (2005); The Seventh Sinner (1972); The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (1992); The Walker in Shadows (1979); The Wizard's Daughter (1980); Tomb of the Golden Bird (2006); Trojan Gold (1987); Vanish with the Rose (1992); Wait for What Will Come (1978); Wings of the Falcon (1977); Witch (1973).

Monday, September 16, 2024

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Born on this day – Rossana Rory:


Rossana Rory


Actress

September 7, 1927 – April 1, 2020

Credits:

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958); Captain Falcon (1958); Casablanca (1956); Come September (1961); El Alamein (1957); Europe '51 (1952); Hell Canyon Outlaws (1957); I cavalieri dell'illusione (1954); In amore si pecca in due (1954); Jessica (1962); La spada e la croce (1958); L'Eclisse (1962); L'eterna femmina (1954); Licenza premio (1951); Padri e figli (1958–1959); Perdonami! (1953); Piccola santa (1954); Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960); The Angel Wore Red (1960); The Big Boodle (1957); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1957); The Naked and the Wicked (1951); The River Changes (1956).