Movies
To quote Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” film stars of the silent era “had faces.”
June 18, 1998
Child abuse has often been a subject for modern filmmakers, but it was nearly taboo in the silent era.
Sept. 2, 1995
Born Margarita Cansino in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1918, Rita Hayworth began her career as a professional nightclub dancer before entering movies as a teenager in 1935’s “Dante’s Inferno.”
Dec. 13, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
Broken Blossoms (Channel 28 Sunday at 4 p.m.).
April 14, 1991
When Bette Davis became the first woman to receive the American Film Institute’s life achievement award in 1977, she ended her heartfelt acceptance speech saying, “As I say good night, I would like to quote my favorite line from all of the pictures I have made: ‘Ah’d love to kiss ya but ah just washed mah hair!’
April 26, 1990
The DVD of the original 1971 film, starring Michael Caine, is superior to the tepid remake.
Feb. 22, 2001
UCLA preservation festival screens a gangster yarn that made leap to talkies.
Aug. 20, 1998
Television
Only Lillian Gish could make lewd into a three-syllable word, which she does enchantingly in “Lillian Gish: The Actor’s Life for Me,” airing tonight at 9 on KCET Channel 28.
July 15, 1988
The American Cinematheque’s “At the Center of the Labyrinth: The Films of Bernardo Bertolucci,” which will be held Friday through Sunday at the Directors Guild, 7920 Sunset Blvd., affords a chance to see films that have made Bertolucci one of the most famous of international directors and those that surface only occasionally.
April 4, 1994
Poison (Cinemax Tuesday at 2:40 a.m.) is woven together out of three separate stories: a Jean Genet adaptation, a parody of vintage horror pictures and a mock documentary.
Aug. 15, 1993