75th Anniversary of #BillyWilder directed and co-written (with #CharlesBrackett and #DMMarshmanJr) dark comedy film noir #SunsetBoulevard - starring #WilliamHolden, #GloriaSwanson and #ErichVonStroheim - is first of my three at #HOMEmcr

𝐅rench 𝐓ouch

𝐋𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
Film Français, réalisé par Jean Renoir en 1937
Avec Jean Gabin , Pierre Fresnay , Erich von Stroheim et Dita Parlo

*Chef d'œuvre incontestable de Jean Renoir!

#LaGrandeIllusion #JeanRenoir #JeanGabin #PierreFresnay #ErichVonStroheim
#MarcelDalio #JulienCarette #GastonModot #DitaParlo #culte #classic #cinema
#french #france #patrimoine #LaFrenchTouch #trailer #BandeAnnonce #cinegenres

𝐓railer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3o2Co2qg0

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

The career of Austrian-born director #ErichvonStroheim is notorious for the level of interference he suffered from his #Hollywood employers. Greed is the most infamously broken-backed of his films, originally screened in a version close to ten hours long but nervously hacked down by the #MGM studio to conventional length.

#greed #cinema #silentfilm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w58hB0ZfOQk

'Greed' (1924): Infamous silent psychological drama movie from Erich von Stroheim -- full movie

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Josef von Stroheim: “My father [Erich von Stroheim] only pretended to be very difficult to handle”

Almost a century ago, the silent screen’s most mythical ‘cinema artist,’ as he considered himself, began his Hollywood career when he wrote, directed, and starred in “Blind Husbands” (1919), the fi…

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Carla Laemmle: “Growing up on the Universal lot, near the New York street, was like a dream come true”

As the niece of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios in 1915, Carla Laemmle lived a long and happy life. Born in Chicago in 1909, she passed away 104 years later in Los Angeles, where she alm…

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The opening night cast of “Arsenic and Old Lace” starred the actual Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster. Later productions had fellow major horror stars Erich von Stroheim, Bela Lugosi and Fred Gwynne in the role
#MusComEnt #Noirvember #ArsenicAndOldLace #BorisKarloff #ErichVonStroheim #BelaLugosi #FredGwynne #FilmNoir
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“That it should come to this. To be compelled to ask help of a woman!”
Title card for Erich von Stroheim in Foolish Wives
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