Since I'm a part of this young Internet generation, I simply had to google these guys. First I came over their IMDb profiles (written by each other, how cute), and then found my way to their blog Two Modern Guys in Classic Hollywood. Candy!
And that's were I get to the Douglas Fairbanks part of this ordeal - they obviously not too long time ago write a biography about Douglas Fairbanks (names quite simply "Douglas Fairbanks"), and before that Jeffrey Vance has written the biographies "Chaplin: Genius of Cinema", "Buster Keaton Remembered" and "Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian". (Take a look at their short presentation text at the bottom of their blog, fascinating. How do you become a film historian when you're just a little lass from Sweden?)
My point is: How can that book (and the others, for that matter) be anything but totally awesome? I just ordered Mick Lasalle's honoured book "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood" - but I guess my next order will be something Vance/Maietta related.
Here's a trailer I snatched from their blog:
Don't Tom Cruise look awefully plastic? And why the Backstreet Boys haircut? The pretty faces of United Artists are probably gone forever...
2 comments:
I watched The Iron Mask again just the other night..Fairbanks does his farewell ..Its a great little film and highly entertaining..and a little sad..
Christopher:
It's a great film! The first Fairbanks film I owned on DVD, actually - and one of the absolutely first silents I saw!
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