Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Take a drink every time there’s footage of Lue Elizondo walking around aimlessly looking serious.
From Miriam Cooper’s autobiography, “Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life in Early Hollywood”:
“Purely in hopes of getting a few dollars to support himself and his wife, [D.W. Griffith] took a story to Edwin Stratton Porter, head of the Edison Company. That was sinking pretty low, but he sank even lower when Porter turned the story down, then offered him a role in a one-reeler. Griffith took it, and played the lead in Rescued from the Eagle's Nest. It’s…
Overall bad (and in poor taste by modern standards). But that phone conversation is so damn good! A fun and creative use of text in early film.