Showing posts with label George Eliot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Eliot. Show all posts

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Buster Keaton -- Sailor Lassies Help Navigator -- December 19, 2024

Photoplay, December, 1924

Buster's The Navigator was set aboard an ocean liner that was adrift on the ocean. The movie is hilarious. "...it isn't easy to be laughable for six thousand feet of film."

Moving Picture World, 20-December-1924

Metro-Goldwyn, soon to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, proudly announced its current product, including The Navigator, Erich von Stroheim's Greed, Henry King's Romola, starring Lillian Gish and based on the novel by George Eliot and Victor Sjöström's He Who Gets Slapped, starring Lon Chaney.

Moving Picture World, 20-December-1924

Several theaters in the mid-west promoted The Navigator by having young ladies in sailor suits hand out rolls of Life Savers candy. 

Moving Picture World, 27-December-1924

Loew's Montreal promoted the film with a ship in the lobby and the staff dressed in naval uniforms. I like the caricature of Buster in the circles.

Moving Picture World, 20-December-1924

Meanwhile Buster was wrapping up work on his next movie, Seven Chances.

Friday, November 22, 2019

George Eliot 200 -- November 22, 2019

from George Eliot By Mathilde Blind
Mary Ann Evans adopted the name George Eliot when she began writing novels.  She was one of the most successful British authors during the Victorian Era.  She was born 200 years ago today, on 22-November-1819.

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I think all seven of her novels have been adapted for film or television, even Felix Holt, the Radical.