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2 days ago · The Miracle Woman is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film [1] directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, and Sam Hardy. Based on the play Bless You Sister by John Meehan and Robert Riskin, the film is about a clergyman’s daughter who becomes disillusioned by the mistreatment of her dying father by his church.
4 days ago · ABSTRACT. This article outlines some of the key cultural shifts that influenced moviegoing for girls and women in British Malaya. To reconstruct the patterns of film exhibition during the silent and early sound era, it draws on archival resources, including American trade press, local popular press, and oral interviews with elderly Singaporeans; these were conducted in the 1980s, by the ...
3 days ago · Triumph of the Will ( German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles.
5 days ago · Three thousand cinephiles congregated at dusk in the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Italy, on June 27 for an outdoor cine-concert of The Wind (1928)—a silent film about desperate love in bad weather—with the message “FREE ABORTION” projected on a church at the side of the square. The people hummed in euphoric anticipation.
3 days ago · The Invisible Man is a 1933 American science fiction horror film directed by James Whale based on H. G. Wells 's 1897 novel, The Invisible Man, produced by Universal Pictures, and starring Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains and William Harrigan.
4 days ago · As a scholar of pioneering filmmaker Dorothy Arzner, I have always described her as “the only American woman with a directing career from the late silent era through the early 1940s.” (A one-movie exception was Wanda Tuchock, co-director of 1934’s unmemorable Finishing School.)
4 days ago · Christina Appelgate as Diane Steen (Mafia!) Mafia!, also called Jane Austen's Mafia!, is a 1998 comedy film that spoofs the Godfather and other mafia films, and Christina Appelgate's character ...
