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  1. Fay Wray -- Wedding March
    In 1928 Fay Wray starred in what she always thought her best film, Erich von Stroheim's hugely expensive and uncompleted masterpiece, The Wedding March. She resisted the director's sexual advances without too much difficulty or subsequent ill-will, and she learned a great deal from him.
  2. Maria Montez -- Jean Pierre
    The next movie of Maria was PORTRAIT D’UN ASSASIN (‘Portrait of an Assassin’), made in France by Bernard Roland. Important European actors such as Erich Von Stroheim, Arletty and Pierre Braseur appeared in the main roles. According to the critics Maria looked more charming and convincing than ever before. Proving her histrionics skills started to get better.
  3. Jean Renoir -- Jean Gabin
    Jean Renoir's brilliant farewell to Europe's ancient regime, LA GRANDE ILLUSION, set during WWI, stars Jean Gabin as Marechal and Marcel Dalio as Rosenthal, French prisoners of war who constantly escape from prison only to be recaptured. Along with the gracious aristocrat de Boldieu (Pierre Fresnay), they're moved to the fortresslike Wintersborn prison, from which no one has escaped. The commandant of the prison is the ace German pilot von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), now grounded by injury. Despite humane treatment, the Frenchmen plan to escape once again.
  4. Fay Wray -- Gary Cooper
    While she was on location in Maryland, filming The First Kiss with Gary Cooper, Fay Wray heard that her brother Vivien had died, ostensibly by accident, probably by suicide. Saunders arrived to comfort her, and, with Cooper as witness, they were married. For the first time she felt independent of her mother.
  5. Film Adaptation -- Directors
    Variety reports that director Sydney Pollack is close to a deal to direct a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulizer Prize-winning novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" for Paramount Pictures. The novel centers on two young comic-book artists based loosely on the creators of Superman.
  6. Mae Busch -- Stan Ollie
    Mae Busch is the same scale as the Sons of the Desert, Stan & Ollie and 'Fin' produced by Neil Sims Productions. Mae will be a highly detailed display piece standing approximately 4.5" inches tall. The bust will be vacuum cast in marble resin for a perfect finish and painstakingly painted by hand.
  7. Allan Dwan -- Studios
    This was the last film that Allan Dwan would make at Universal, although some of his Universal productions were yet to be released. He soon signed with the Famous Players Co, and moved to their studio in New York. The next year he would marry actress Pauline Bush who had starred in so many of his films. The marriage would end in divorce about 6 years later.
  8. Mae Murray -- New York
    [One] find in this DVD is Mae Murray, the comedic star of The Delicious Little Devil, featuring Valentino in a supporting role before his breakout success in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Murray plays the plucky and hard-working Mary McGuire, the sole breadwinner in her family. She answers an ad for a dancer (“A good future for the girl with a past”), using a name she has lifted from the newspapers, the scandal-making celebrity Gloria Du Moine. Of course, she gets the job, becoming a star and winning the attention of Jimmy Calhoun (Valentino) despite the disapproval of his millionaire father. With her bee-stung lips and exaggerated swivel, Murray’s the precursor to Betty Boop. (Murray's most famous film is von Stroheim’s The Merry Widow.) Unlike most romantic melodramas, which are now relegated to soap operas, the Devil’s farce of mistaken identity is probably as appealing now as it was 87 years ago.
  9. Fay Wray -- Born Vina Fay Wray
    Born Vina Fay Wray in Alberta, Canada, on September 15, 1907, Fay Wray's family moved to the US in 1910, eventually settling in Utah. Ill for much of her youth, her health improved into her teens when her mother, now divorced, relocated to southern California in the early 1920s. While a teenager Wray started in films, beginning in 1923. She acted in a number of shorts at Hal Roach Studios and initially acted in comedies that usually starred James Finlayson and were often directed by Stan Laurel; Wray ... appeared in at least one Our Gang comedy short and also acted in westerns. By the time Wray was 20 years old, she was the star of Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March (1928; with Zasu Pitts) and was under contract to Paramount. Fortunate enough to make the transition to talkies in the late 1920s, she developed a scream-queen reputation in the early 1930s starring in the early (2-strip) Technicolor horror films Doctor X (1932; with Lionel Atwill and Preston Foster) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933; with Lionel Atwill and Glenda Farrell).
  10. Fay Wray -- John Monk Saunders
    After these films, Fay started to flounder in B movies. Unlike Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, for example, she didn’t have a consistent director-mentor to ‘create’ her career. Erich Von Stroheim’s interest in her would prove one of the most valuable aspects of her life in the movies. Without him, things got tough, and then, when the crisis over the transition to sound films came in the late 1920s, Paramount cancelled Fay’s contract. But at around this time, Fay ... fell in love, with a screenwriter named John Monk Saunders.
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