CINEMA made a noisy leap forward on Aug. 6, 1926. At the Warner Theater in New York City, Warner Bros. premiered the John Barrymore swashbuckler “Don Juan,” a showcase for Vitaphone, one of the early ...
This Vitaphone short features the Kjerulf Mayfair Quintette in their only film performance Their act is basically five women three on a harp one on a violin and another that does the singing The songs ...
I picked up a great reference book over the weekend (at Ray Courts Hollywood Collector’s show at the Beverly Garland Hotel). VITAPHONE FILMS by Roy Liebman is a helluva reference work.It’s a 455 page ...
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