Mare Nostrum (Rex Ingram, 1926) inspired the aquarium scene in The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947). #OrsonWelles #TheLadyFromShanghai #MareNostrum #RexIngram #silentfilm #classicfilm #film #movie #cinema

#OTD 1923, Dublin's La Scala Theatre was showing The Conquering Power (US: Metro, 1921), directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, based on Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet. Images: Freeman's Journal, IMDb and Wikipedia. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #TheConqueringPower #RexIngram #RudolphValentino #AliceTerry

Lena Horne, Eddie Anderson, Duke Ellington, Vincente Minnelli, Ethel Waters, Director Vincente Minnelli and Rex Ingram on the set of “Cabin in the Sky”
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On 6 January 1923, Dublin's Evening Herald published photos of Rex Ingram, "the Dublin-born producer of the great screen spectacle, the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,'" and Alice Terry, "who plays the part of Marguerite Laurier," to mark the film release.
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