021: My Best Girl (1927) - released 10/31/1927, viewed 8/25/05.
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first English woman to swim the English Channel. The New York Yankees assembly known as Murderer's Row finish a four-game sweep against the Pirates. The first flight of Pan-American Airways takes off.
BIRTHS: Roger Moore, George C. Scott.
DOUG: 1927 nears its conclusion as United Artists releases the film My Best Girl starring Mary Pickford and (her future husband) Charles 'Buddy' Rogers. I could be wrong, but I'm afraid that we've passed over Mary Pickford's best stuff. The good news is that we got to catch her last silent film, and a good film it is, albeit rather average. Between the two, this would seem to be a more typical vehicle for her. And hey, the DVD comes with a lovely set of home movies showing Ms. Pickford getting married to her leading man, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, in 1941. Isn't that sweet? It seems hard to really find a couple of films that capture Mary Pickford; maybe we could try watching several of them at once. Buddy Rogers also starred in WINGS the same year; yet another reason why that film must be released on DVD!
KEVIN: Now we come to Mary Pickford's final silent film My Best Girl, a nice clean-cut straight forward romantic comedy. I liked this movie well enough, it had plenty of fun little moments in it, but over all it was a very average and uninteresting piece. Like Sparrows, there were times when this film seemed to be begging to have sound as the title cards started piling up.
Last film viewed: College (1927). Last film chronologically: The Jazz Singer (1927). Next film viewed: The Circus (1928). Next film chronologically: Sunrise (1927).
The Movie Odyssey is an exhaustive, chronological project where we watch as many milestone films as possible, starting with D.W. Griffith's Intolerance in 1916 and working our way through, year by year, one film at a time. We also write a short review for each and every film. In this project, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of the time period, the films of the era, and each film in context, while at the same time just watching a lot of great movies, most of which we never would have watched otherwise.
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first English woman to swim the English Channel. The New York Yankees assembly known as Murderer's Row finish a four-game sweep against the Pirates. The first flight of Pan-American Airways takes off.
BIRTHS: Roger Moore, George C. Scott.
DOUG: 1927 nears its conclusion as United Artists releases the film My Best Girl starring Mary Pickford and (her future husband) Charles 'Buddy' Rogers. I could be wrong, but I'm afraid that we've passed over Mary Pickford's best stuff. The good news is that we got to catch her last silent film, and a good film it is, albeit rather average. Between the two, this would seem to be a more typical vehicle for her. And hey, the DVD comes with a lovely set of home movies showing Ms. Pickford getting married to her leading man, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, in 1941. Isn't that sweet? It seems hard to really find a couple of films that capture Mary Pickford; maybe we could try watching several of them at once. Buddy Rogers also starred in WINGS the same year; yet another reason why that film must be released on DVD!
KEVIN: Now we come to Mary Pickford's final silent film My Best Girl, a nice clean-cut straight forward romantic comedy. I liked this movie well enough, it had plenty of fun little moments in it, but over all it was a very average and uninteresting piece. Like Sparrows, there were times when this film seemed to be begging to have sound as the title cards started piling up.
Last film viewed: College (1927). Last film chronologically: The Jazz Singer (1927). Next film viewed: The Circus (1928). Next film chronologically: Sunrise (1927).
The Movie Odyssey is an exhaustive, chronological project where we watch as many milestone films as possible, starting with D.W. Griffith's Intolerance in 1916 and working our way through, year by year, one film at a time. We also write a short review for each and every film. In this project, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of the time period, the films of the era, and each film in context, while at the same time just watching a lot of great movies, most of which we never would have watched otherwise.