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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2021 20:39:40 GMT -6
Congratulations to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ('62) for being one of 25 films just named to the 2021 US Library of Congress National Film Registry and thus selected for preservation as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." CBS NPR Hollywood ReporterBaby Jane joins other Joan films Grand Hotel ('32), The Women ('39), Mildred Pierce ('45), and Johnny Guitar ('54) on the Registry list. Question for film historians: Does any other actor or director have films on the list for each of FOUR DECADES?
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Post by tom on Dec 15, 2021 18:37:07 GMT -6
Congratulations to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ('62) for being one of 25 films just named to the 2021 US Library of Congress National Film Registry and thus selected for preservation as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." CBS NPR Hollywood ReporterBaby Jane joins other Joan films Grand Hotel ('32), The Women ('39), Mildred Pierce ('45), and Johnny Guitar ('54) on the Registry list. Question for film historians: Does any other actor or director have films on the list for each of FOUR DECADES?
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Very cool. Now all we need is to get one of Joan's silents on the LOC list! The Unknown is most likely, but Browning and Chaney have so many other films to choose from, seems a very long shot. T |
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2021 22:01:34 GMT -6
Congratulations to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ('62) for being one of 25 films just named to the 2021 US Library of Congress National Film Registry and thus selected for preservation as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." CBS NPR Hollywood ReporterBaby Jane joins other Joan films Grand Hotel ('32), The Women ('39), Mildred Pierce ('45), and Johnny Guitar ('54) on the Registry list. Question for film historians: Does any other actor or director have films on the list for each of FOUR DECADES? <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button>
Very cool. Now all we need is to get one of Joan's silents on the LOC list! The Unknown is most likely, but Browning and Chaney have so many other films to choose from, seems a very long shot. T I'm not enough of an expert on the Browning/Chaney collaboration to opine on which might be the best. Joan-wise, though, I'd pick "Sudden Fear" as a prime candidate---although director David Miller isn't "cool" enough. So I don't see this Joan film making it on its own merits. |
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Post by tom on Dec 27, 2021 15:12:24 GMT -6
Very cool. Now all we need is to get one of Joan's silents on the LOC list! The Unknown is most likely, but Browning and Chaney have so many other films to choose from, seems a very long shot. T I'm not enough of an expert on the Browning/Chaney collaboration to opine on which might be the best. Joan-wise, though, I'd pick "Sudden Fear" as a prime candidate---although director David Miller isn't "cool" enough. So I don't see this Joan film making it on its own merits. Hello, and a belated Merry Xmas to you and all Joan fans! I was opining whether any of Joan's films from the 1920's might be added to the LOC list, giving her a 5th decade. I would think that her best candidates are The Unknown - because the Browning/Chaney collaboration - and The Hollywood Revue of 1929 because of it's significance as one of MGM's earliest talkies. P.S. Browning and Chaney worked together on 10 films. Probably their most famous is the lost film "London After Midnight," which I think has moved into the realm of famous for being famous. Browning went on to direct Dracula (1931). |
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Post by tom on Dec 30, 2021 15:35:58 GMT -6
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