Movies
The title is, by design, touched with irony, overtones and undertones--a subtext in hand before we have even begun.
Dec. 25, 1988
California
There are 74 units in the Vidor Villas public housing complex; not a one is inhabited by a black person.
Jan. 10, 1993
In the powerful last sequence of King Vidor’s silent masterpiece “The Crowd,” Vidor’s working-class hero and heroine have endured a series of grievous afflictions: the death of a child, the loss of a job, and above all the surrender of youthful dreams of prosperity, let alone fame and fortune.
July 21, 1987
** “Love Me Or Leave Me.” MGM/UA. $19.95. 1955.
Aug. 26, 1988
Archives
“Man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.”
Jan. 4, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Since composing a score in 1980 for the Kevin Brownlow-David Gill restoration of Abel Gance’s “Napoleon” for its presentation at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square, Carl Davis has scored two dozen silent films in addition to continuing his richly varied career as a conductor and composer, which includes his collaboration last year with Paul McCartney on McCartney’s “Liverpool Oratorio.”
April 24, 1992
The charge to the architects, one of the speakers said, was that if you started at the Pacific Ocean and headed east on Sunset, the first really drop-dead building you come to should be the new headquarters of the Directors Guild of America.
April 25, 1989
Real Estate
Eric Mitchell Shore, an interior designer, had a dream.
Dec. 12, 2004
At the age of 87, Rouben Mamoulian is the last survivor of the 11 directors who anted up $100 apiece at a meeting at King Vidor’s house in 1936 and began to organize what became the Directors Guild of America.
Jan. 19, 1986
In the oeuvre of actress Evelyn Keyes, the role of Suellen O’Hara was a “bit part,” nothing like the leading roles she played in later films, or her real-life role as wife of directors John Huston and Charles Vidor and jazz musician Artie Shaw.
July 12, 2008