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  JAMES WONG HOWE
He was reportedly offered the first two 'The Godfather' films, but just wasn't strong enough to accept.
In 1974, producer Ray Stark and director Herbert Ross wanted a replacement for cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Funny Lady'.
1928 The Rescue [Herbert Brenon] bandw; cph: Joseph Biroc and George Barnes
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  Herbert Hoover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was the 31st (1929 - 1933) President of the United States.
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 Herbert Brenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
While the director was at the height of his fame, critics spoke with admiration of "the Brenon touch."
Brenon met the advent of the talkies with skepticism.
In 1928 he spoke disparagingly of sound as a passing fad brought about by the inferiority of the current crop of silent films.
www.theoscarsite.com /whoswho/brenon_h.htm   (212 words)

  
 Beau Geste (1926)
Beau's epistle informs Lady Brandon that, having overheard her conversation with the Hindu and knowing she had sold the Blue Water, he had stolen the imitation stone to save her from embarrassment when her husband demanded that it be turned into cash.
Brenon has taken one liberty in making the purchasing Hindu, for no apparent reason, wink at the family minister carrying the famed jewel during that early portion, and he may also be said to have left unexplained how the lights go out at the time Beau takes the stone.
Brenon has given too much time to planting the brother-love theme when the Geste boys are pictured as children Any further cutting will likely be done through this sequence.
www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/bg.htm   (3061 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Herbert Brenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Brenon came to the States as a teenager and was acting on stage in the 1900s.
Brenon also directed Bara in The Kreutzer Sonata, The Clemenceau Case, and Sin, which he scripted.
His other admired silent films include the Annette Kellerman vehicles Neptune's Daughter and A Daughter of the Gods (for which he was uncredited); War Brides with Alla Nazimova; Peter Pan with Betty Bronson; Beau Geste with Ronald Colman; The Great Gatsby with Warner Baxter; and Laugh, Clown, Laugh with Lon Chaney.
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 The Passion Flower (1921)
Brenon has given his players the advantage of scenes finished in composition and lighting, settings harmonious and restrained.
Brenon has exercised too much care, that the scenario writer had overwritten the continuity; that the sets were Manhattan-made, and the players, even the extras, were puppets, and puppet-like, distressingly unreal.
In 1921, Talmadge announced that Herbert Brenon was to be her permanent director.
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 Posters-and-Photos.com - Herbert Brenon posters, photos, wallpapers and prints to buy in a online store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One of the Herbert Brenon posters announcing the first international pro-life.
Herbert Brenon posters and photos were all over the room.
The listed Herbert Brenon posters, photos, prints, t-shirts etc are in association with AllPosters.com.
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 Sorrell and Son   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Herbert Brenon adapted Warwick Deeping's novel and directed this classic silent drama that follows the story of a World War I veteran who returns home to raise his son after he finds that his wife has left him.
In old age the elder Sorrell is stricken with cancer, and the son--knowing the ravages of the disease--sorrowfully euthanizes his father to prevent his suffering.
Highly controversial at the time, the film won director Herbert Brenon an Oscar nomination.
www.theoscarsite.com /pictures1927/sorrell.htm   (115 words)

  
 SORRELL AND SON (Herbert Brenon) H. B. Warner, Nils Asther, Anna Q. Nilsson, Alice Joyce, Carmel Myers, Mary Nolan, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
SORRELL AND SON (Herbert Brenon) H. Warner, Nils Asther, Anna Q. Nilsson, Alice Joyce, Carmel Myers, Mary Nolan, Mickey McBan
A well-made melodrama about paternal devotion in the face of personal and social adversity, Sorrell and Son benefits greatly from Herbert Brenon's assured direction and especially from the performances of its mostly first-rate cast.
After being deserted by his materialistic and selfish wife, a World War I veteran performs all sorts of menial jobs in order to provide his son with a decent living.
www.altfg.com /Reviews/sorrellandson.htm   (524 words)

  
 Peter Pan
Although this is more of a filmed play (and George Ali repeats his famous stage role as Nana, the dog) than an example of movie magic, remember that all special effects are done in the camera; laboratory effects were not yet invented.
But, director Herbert Brenon felt that every child saw their mother as a beautiful young girl.
Sixteen year old Mary Brian plays Wendy, the first of the sweet natured heroines she played in numerous films in the silent and early sound era.
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 Navarro's Silent Film Guide - Movie Reviews - Peter Pan
The best version is Herbert Brenon's Peter Pan, filmed for Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount in 1924.
PETER PAN (1924) Betty Bronson was a teenager from New Jersey, toiling away at bit parts when J.M. Barrie spotted her and insisted that she play his hero, Peter Pan, in the Paramount film of his story.
Darling, crying silently in her children's empty bedroom, turns and sees that they are all sleeping soundly in their beds, just as they should be.
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 Laugh Clown Laugh (1928)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The film was directed by Herbert Brenon, the autocratic but effective director of PETER PAN (1924), BEAU GESTE (1927), and A KISS FOR CINDERELLA (1925), and was stunningly photographed by James Wong Howe, probably the finest cinematographer to work on a Chaney picture.
The director (Herbert Brenon) kept telling me that I was so rotten and so awful.
We all made tests for it; I was under contract to First National studios, but I was sent over anyway, and out of 50 girls, she said he'd boiled it down to five.
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 Sorrell and Son (1927)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Trivia: This film was presumed lost until an incomplete print was discovered, which exists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences film archive.
from Putney, VT This original silent film version of the Warwick Deeping novel was much acclaimed and earned an Oscar nomination for Director - Herbert Brenon.
It is sadly among the "LOST" films, no negative or print materials known to exist.
www.imdb.com /Title?0018429   (237 words)

  
 BEAU GESTE (1926) - Ronald Colman Neil Hamilton Average Herbert Brenon Drama Classic 1926 -
BEAU GESTE (1926) - Ronald Colman Neil Hamilton Average Herbert Brenon Drama Classic 1926 -
Screenplay by Paul Schofield, John Russell, and Herbert Brenon
Early film version of the Wren story about the adventures of three brothers when they join the French Foreign Legion.
www.movies2go.net /review/BeauGeste1926.html   (62 words)

  
 Herbert Brenon - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Director: Herbert Brenon Starring: Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Noah Beery, Norman Trevor, William Powell, George Regas, Bernard Siegel, Victor McLaglen, Donald Stuart
Director: Herbert Brenon Starring: Frank McCormick, Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Irene Rich, Lester Vail, Otto Matieson, Don Alvarado, Bernard Siegel, Myrtle Stedman, John St. Polis, Hale Hamilton, George Regas
Circus clown Tito Beppi (Lon Chaney) adopted and raised a young girl, Simonetta (Loretta Young), who has matured into a beautiful woman, and Tito's feelings toward her have changed from fatherly to amorous.
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 Herbert Brenon Movie Posters > Herbert Brenon DVDs and Videos > Classic Films > New Movie Releases > ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Barnes & Noble.com - The Lon Chaney Collection -- Lon Chaney - DVD - Black & White
Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, Wallace Worsley, Herbert Brenon
This theme reaches its apotheosis in The Unknown (1927, directed by Tod Browning), when circus knife thrower Chaney has his arms amputated to win the love of fellow trouper Joan Crawford, who professes to loathe a man's touch.
In Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928, Herbert Brenon), the object of Chaney's affection is winsome, radiantly beautiful Loretta Young, the adopted daughter he fears losing to handsome nobleman Nils Asther.
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