The Doll (1919) movie review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) stars.
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Mothers of Men (1917) movie review: Dorothy Davenport stars in women’s suffrage tale asks whether the female right to vote would destroy American society.
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Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913) movie review: Long-forgotten silent offers a rare look at black Americans’ lives in the early 20th century.
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South (1919) movie review: Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his landmark Antarctic expedition are depicted in beautiful and harrowing detail.
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Sold for Marriage (1916) movie review: Lillian Gish is excellent in Christy Cabanne’s remarkably modern early silent feature. Also in the cast: Frank Bennett.
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The Italian (1915) movie review: George Beban is a powerful presence in Reginald Barker’s early big-screen portrayal of the ‘American Nightmare.’
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Tess of the Storm Country (1914) movie review: Mary Pickford is an impressive waif in veteran Edwin S. Porter’s early silent feature. Harold Lockwood costars.
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A Fool There Was (1915) movie review: Theda Bara stars as a destroyer of men in Frank Powell’s early silent depicting the power of female sexuality.
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Stella Maris (1918) movie review: Mary Pickford would have been a Oscar winner for her dual performance in this creaky yet affecting Marshall Neilan melodrama.
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Male power in early 20th century Made in 1919, the year before women gained the right to vote in the United States, the ultimately disappointing (and sleep-inducing) Phil-for-Short tells the …