Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill was one of America’s greatest playwrights and still remains the only playwright to garner multiple Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Click on the link below to […]
Daily Archives: December 9, 2014
Play a Hooker and Win an Oscar
In this article, Bernard Weintraub notes that “the first Academy Award for best actress was given in 1928 to Janet Gaynor for her […]
Freak Plays, Theatre, July 1915
Freak Plays–Theatre–July, 1915
The Stage Struck Girl, Theatre, November 1915
The Stage Struck Girl–Theatre November 1915
Tory Lowe
Tory Lowe is a second-year doctoral student in the English department at Miami University. His areas of interest include early 20th century film culture and its intersections with literatures of […]
Evelyn Nesbit in My Little Sister (1919)
This review of the film adaptation of Elisabeth Robins’ My Little Sister (1919) appeared in the magazine Moving Picture World. The review describes the “sensation” the play caused upon its […]
The Red Kimona (1925)
This is an excerpt from The Red Kimona (1925), directed by Dorothy Davenport – a.k.a. Mrs. Wallace Reid, an actress married to popular matinee idol Wallace Reid. She took his […]
The Cheat (1915)
The Cheat (1915) was directed by Cecil B. DeMille for Paramount Pictures, and stars Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa (noted as the screen’s first Japanese American film star). The film […]
Variety Review of East is West
This review of East is West appeared in Variety‘s January 3, 1919 issue. Note that Forrest Robinson is credited with replacing Frank Kemble Cooper in the role of Andrew Benson […]
Constance Talmadge in East is West (1922)
This advertisement for the first film adaptation of East is West, which starred Constance Talmadge as Ming Toy, appeared in Exhibitors’ Herald in 1922.