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This Clara Bow double feature includes FPS’s restoration of KID BOOTS, starring Clara and Eddie Cantor, as well as GET YOUR MAN, with Clara and Buddy Rogers. Blu-Rays are now shipping!
Featuring new musical accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk (KID BOOTS) and Donald Sosin (GET YOUR MAN, DECREE OF DESTINY).
Bonus content: FPS’s restored version of the 1911 Biograph Short A DECREE OF DESTINY, starring Mary Pickford.
This Blu-ray contains the 1917 feature film, WOLF LOWRY, starring William S. Hart, as well as the Hart-directed 1915 two-reel Western, BAD BUCK OF SANTA YNEZ and the D.W. Griffith directed THE SHERIFF’S BABY (1913), part of FPS’s ongoing Biograph Project. Replicated and printed by Pressing Media.
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This new restoration of Douglas Fairbanks’ 1921 adaptation of The Three Musketeers – produced in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art – features a new score created and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Bonus content: FPS’ restored version of the 1910 Biograph short “The Call to Arms” featuring Henry B. Walthall, Marion Leonard, Joseph Graybill, and Mary Pickford // The Library of Congress’ preservation print of the 1917 World War I short “All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan” with David Belasco, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, and Mary Pickford
1925: Harpo Marx is starring on Broadway; Richard Dix is one of the newest stars of the silent screen and William Powell is nearly a decade away from making the first Thin Man movie. The three of them star in Paramount’s delightful comedy Too Many Kisses, which vanishes without a trace shortly after its initial release. Thought lost for decades, the film is now available for the first time.
With a new score composed and performed by Bill Marx - son of Harpo - Too Many Kisses is presented to modern audiences in a beautiful new restoration from Film Preservation Society. Among the film’s many charms is the chance to see Harpo speak – albeit through a title card. Powell is sinister in one of his many early villain roles and Dix is the dashing young romantic hero. (He’s romancing Frances Howard, who would soon give up her career to marry producer Samuel Goldwyn.)
Too Many Kisses will excite Marx Brothers fans eager to see the film debut of Harpo Marx. But Marx Brothers fans also get another important, rarely seen film on this Blu-ray edition of Too Many Kisses. The House That Shadows Built, a 1931 Paramount promotional feature celebrating the studio’s 20th anniversary, includes a Marx Brothers sequence not seen in any of their films. And that’s not the only rare treasure. Clips from lost silent films featuring stars like Douglas Fairbanks and Lon Chaney are included in this meticulously restored piece of film history.
Bonus Features:
The House That Shadows Built, restored 1931 Paramount publicity film featuring the Four Marx Brothers, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, William S. Hart, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Marlene Dietrich, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, and many other stars.
“About Film Preservation Society,” a short presentation about The Biograph Project, an effort to restore and preserve all of the short films directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company.
Restored 1910 D.W. Griffith Biograph short, “A Child’s Impulse” starring Mary Pickford, and featuring a new score written and performed by Donald Sosin.
16-page booklet with essays by D. Christian Anderson, Robert S. Bader, Kevin Brownlow, and Tracey Goessel.
This lush and beautifully illustrated volume which celebrates the life and career of silent-film pioneer Mary Pickford, now out of print. Utilizing rare images curated by Kevin Brownlow and Robert Cushman, this book is a masterwork suitable for every film fans home library. The book is offered here in new condition, still publisher shrink wrapped. Included is an autographed plate by author and historian Kevin Brownlow. Hardcover, 256 pages, original publication May 1, 1999.
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Tracey Goessel (Author)
Silent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks was an absolute charmer. Irrepressibly vivacious, he spent his life leaping over and into things, from his early Broadway successes to his marriage to the great screen actress Mary Pickford to the way he made Hollywood his very own town. The inventor of the swashbuckler, he wasn’t only an actor—he all but directed and produced his movies, and in founding United Artists with Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith, he challenged the studio system.
But listing his accomplishments is one thing and telling his story another. Tracey Goessel has made the latter her life’s work, and with exclusive access to Fairbanks’s love letters to Pickford, she brilliantly illuminates how Fairbanks conquered not just the entertainment world but the heart of perhaps the most famous woman in the world at the time.
When Mary Pickford died, she was an alcoholic, self-imprisoned in her mansion, nearly alone, and largely forgotten. But she left behind a small box; in it, worn and refolded, were her letters from Douglas Fairbanks. Pickford and Fairbanks had ruled Hollywood as its first king and queen for a glorious decade. But the letters began long before, when they were both married to others, when revealing the affair would have caused a great scandal.
Now, these letters form the centerpiece of the first truly definitive biography of Hollywood’s first king, the man who did his own stunts and built his own studio and formed a company that allowed artists to distribute their own works outside the studio system. But Goessel’s research uncovered more: that Fairbanks’s first film appearance was two years earlier than had been assumed; that his stories of how he got into theater, and then into films, were fabricated; that the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios had a specially constructed underground trench so that Fairbanks could jog in the nude; that Fairbanks himself insisted racist references be removed from his films’ intertitles; and the true cause of Fairbanks’s death. Fairbanks was the top male star of his generation, the maker of some of the greatest films of his era: The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro. He was fun, witty, engaging, creative, athletic, and a force to be reckoned with. He shaped our idea of the Hollywood hero, and Hollywood has never been the same since. His story, like his movies, is full of passion, bravado, romance, and desire. Here, at last, is his definitive biography, based on extensive and brand-new research into every aspect of his career, and written with fine understanding, wit, and verve.
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While making sweet memories in a world of make‑believe, young Mary Pickford discovers that love shines brightest when she least expects it.
Pulitzer‑nominated author David W. Menefee presents a vivid, intimate memoir‑style novel told through the eyes of Charlotte Pickford, the indomitable mother who shaped one of early Hollywood’s greatest legends.
Before she became "America’s Sweetheart," Mary Pickford was Gladys Smith, a determined girl from Toronto who supported her family by portraying children long after her own childhood had slipped away. Sweet Memories brings to life the coming‑of‑age journey of a rising actress navigating the back roads of Broadway, the harsh realities of early 1900s theater life, and the dazzling yet dangerous world of silent film.
At sixteen—lovely as a spring rose—Mary faces the greatest challenge of her young life. Catapulted into fame as The Biograph Girl, she finds herself on an unsteady pedestal where labor and love mix like oil and water. Amid the whirlwind of adoration, only Charlotte stands unwavering at her side, and only Owen abides in her heart.
Together, they join a band of independent filmmakers in Cuba, unaware that they are stepping into an explosive adventure that will shape their destinies. Through triumphs, sacrifices, and the relentless pursuit of artistic freedom, this richly layered historical novel reveals the untold story of Mary Pickford’s rise, the mother‑daughter bond that sustained her, and the price of becoming a legend.
A sweeping tale for fans of silent film history, early Hollywood drama, strong female protagonists, and historical mother‑daughter stories, Sweet Memories captures the heart of an era when dreams were fragile, fame was perilous, and one girl’s vision changed cinema forever.
This special hardback edition, titled Mary Pickford’s Sweet Memories, is presented in honor of the pioneering actress whose legacy shaped the earliest era of American cinema. The text remains faithful to the original work, Sweet Memories (available in ebook and paperback editions), with this edition created to celebrate the enduring influence of Mary Pickford and the timeless charm she brought to the screen.
David W. Menefee is the Pulitzer nominated author of WALLY: THE TRUE WALLACE REID STORY (Foreword by Robert Osborne), and THE RISE AND FALL OF LOU-TELLEGEN, both of which were named among the Best Silent Film Books of 2011 by Thomas Gladysz in the San Francisco Examiner's annual ranking. David's other popular works include the monumental SARAH BERNHARDT, HER FILMS, HER RECORDINGS (Foreword by Kevin Brownlow), RICHARD BARTHELMESS: A LIFE IN PICTURES (named one of the Top Film Books of 2009), and THE FIRST FEMALE STARS: WOMEN OF THE SILENT ERA.