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Snow White's first French version
Early this February, I've lived a very moving experience : the projection a very rare copy of the first 1938 dub of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs entitled Blanche Neige et les Sept...
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Madame Sans-Gêne
On September 4, 1924 this brief piece of information appeared in the French magazine Mon Ciné: "Gloria Swanson, who has just been vacationing in France, will soon come back to shoot a magnificent film...
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Pearl White and The Perils of Pauline
You may not remember Pearl White or her most famous film: The Perils of Pauline. She and French director Louis Gasnier popularized a then-new formula that proved vastly successful: the serial. And, in...
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Elephant Walk
Vivien Leigh, more than ten years after her success as Scarlett O’Hara, had proven that she was still hot by winning a second academy award in her other iconic role as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar...
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Ulysses 31
Before they produced The Mysterious Cities Of Gold, DIC had teamed up with the Japanese for the first time for their series Ulysses 31. The series was distributed almost worldwide and was a major...
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Fantasia Program in France
I already wrote an article about Walt Disney's Fantasia and its various versions. Today, I'd like to share the original 1946 French RKO program with its beautiful original artwork. Click on the...
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Prayer to the Stars
Marcel Pagnol is a famous French poet, writer and filmmaker. His stories usually revolve around the south of France, in Provence. These stories are sometimes told through several generations, hence the...
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Dutch Snow White program
The first Dutch release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs called "Sneeuwwitje en de zeven dwergen" hit the screens November 11, 1938. Snow flakes were added to the Gustaf Tenggren design on the poster...
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June Caprice
In 1915, the movie world was all about Mary Pickford and every studio wanted someone like her. Which is probably why she wanted none of them and built her own studio, United Artists, with her husband...
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The Corsair
In July of 1939, director Marc Allégret shot the first scenes of a new pirate film in the south of France, at the studio de la Victorine in Nice. It was an adaptation of Marcel Achard's play Le...
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Fantasia French booklet
Here is a nice little companion to the previously published French Fantasia program. This RKO booklet is also from 1946. Click on the pictures for full quality. That's all for today folks! More info,...
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan is one of those characters that has been so popular for so long that it seems almost real. And yet, when the film Tarzan of the Apes was released in 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs had almost just...
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The Rescuers
After the smash hit of The Jungle Book and the relative success of Robin Hood, the Disneystaff worked on a story based on Margery Sharp’s novels about two little mice that Walt Disney had begun...
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Snow White premiere magazine
76 years ago, Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater. Here is a Christmas treat for you: I scanned the theater's magazine "The Playgoer" presenting the...
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The Fortune Teller
Lili Damita and Georges MelchiorLast month, actor Paul Walker died before he could complete filming of Fast & Furious 7. Yet Universal already announced that the film would still be released. You...
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Woman to Woman
Last year saw the re-release of The White Shadow, a 1924 film directed by Graham Cutts which had been thought lost for almost 90 years. Only half the film has been recovered (Three reels out of 6), but...
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Die drei Portiermädel (The Three Daughters of the Janitor)
In his excellent biography of Jacques Tourneur, The Cinema of Nightfall, Chris Fujiwara lists Les filles de la concierge as Tourneur's best French film. Yet even him does not seem to know that, unlike...
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Reginald Denny
Do you remember Max de Winter's friend and secretary Frank Crawley in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca? It was a small part but the dashing blue-eyed man who played it made the most of it. You'd never guess...
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Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter's career is often overshadowed by that of another Mary and by the scandal that contributed in ending it. But she was more that the other girl with the golden curls and it is...
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Paulette Rollin, Sweet Nightingale
Today is Paulette Rollin's birthday. She was the French singing voice voice of Walt Disney's Cinderella when it was first released in 1950. Since 1991, Paulette's voice has been replaced by that of a...
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