Are you celebrating Mexico today?
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
I'm eating tacos for dinner because it's the least I can do. And I'm also perusing amazing photos of Mexican film stars of yore like the deliriously sexy Lupe Vélez and one star of the right now... Señor Bernal of course. Also deliriously sexy. Especially in closeups.
So I thought we'd drool on six of the earliest crossover sensations tonight with a few films of note (for one reason or another) for each of their careers. If you'd like to investigate further, click on the links. Enjoy!
Lupe Vélez The Gaucho, 1927 | Hot Pepper, 1933 | The Girl From Mexico, 1939
Ramon Novarro Scaramouche 1923 | Ben-Hur 1925 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, 1927
These silent stars had volatile lives and careers, both ending with tragic deaths. Vélez career was a series of ups and downs and some say she was bipolar. She had several movie star affairs...
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
I'm eating tacos for dinner because it's the least I can do. And I'm also perusing amazing photos of Mexican film stars of yore like the deliriously sexy Lupe Vélez and one star of the right now... Señor Bernal of course. Also deliriously sexy. Especially in closeups.
So I thought we'd drool on six of the earliest crossover sensations tonight with a few films of note (for one reason or another) for each of their careers. If you'd like to investigate further, click on the links. Enjoy!
Lupe Vélez The Gaucho, 1927 | Hot Pepper, 1933 | The Girl From Mexico, 1939
Ramon Novarro Scaramouche 1923 | Ben-Hur 1925 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, 1927
These silent stars had volatile lives and careers, both ending with tragic deaths. Vélez career was a series of ups and downs and some say she was bipolar. She had several movie star affairs...
- 5/6/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Introducing the opening night film of the 14th edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Jeffrey Vance—author of Douglas Fairbanks (University of California Press, 2008)—offered: “Judging by this enormous turnout tonight, I’m inclined to think that talking films are just a passing fad.”
One of the great pleasures of Douglas Fairbanks’ career, Vance specified, were the action-adventure films of the 1920s; one of his finest being The Gaucho. “It’s also one of the most unusual of his features,” Vance qualified. “It’s dark in tone and it leaps frequently from comedy to tragedy to self-parody. Like the other great Fairbanks films, it has spectacular opportunities for him to showcase his wonderful athletic prowess and it also contains superb production values.” Characterizing The Gaucho as “a near masterwork”, Vance claimed it’s a pity that the film is rarely revived because—of all of Fairbanks’ films—it...
One of the great pleasures of Douglas Fairbanks’ career, Vance specified, were the action-adventure films of the 1920s; one of his finest being The Gaucho. “It’s also one of the most unusual of his features,” Vance qualified. “It’s dark in tone and it leaps frequently from comedy to tragedy to self-parody. Like the other great Fairbanks films, it has spectacular opportunities for him to showcase his wonderful athletic prowess and it also contains superb production values.” Characterizing The Gaucho as “a near masterwork”, Vance claimed it’s a pity that the film is rarely revived because—of all of Fairbanks’ films—it...
- 7/13/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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