Sept. 17 - Sept 19, 2008: "Hollywood on the Hudson" - Film Making in NY

The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] is hosting The Hollywood on the Hudson Film Festival from September 17 to September 19, 2008.
Don't miss this event inspired by Richard Koszarski's book, Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff.
For complete information, visit the Museum of Modern Art's website:
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=10043&ref=calendar#screenings

The forth coming screenings for 10 original Hollywood on the Hudson Films include:

1. The Green Goddess (1923) - Sidney Olcott, director; play by Willima Archer; acting by George Arliss. Filmed at the Bronx Biograph studio. Screening courtesy UCLA Film and Telelvison Archive. Silent with music accompaniment.
2. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1920) - John Robertson, director; based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson; acting by John Barrymore. Filmed at Paramount's Amsterdam Opera House studio on West Forty-fourth Street; from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection. Silent, with musical accompaniment.
3. Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) - Frank Tuttle, director; based on a play by John Weaver & George Abbott; with Evelyn Brent, actress. Paramount Astoria Studios.
4. Enchantment (1921) Robert Vignola, director; based on a story by Frank R. Adams; with Marion Davies acting. Screening courtesy The Library of Congress. Silent, with musical accompaniment.
5. While New York Sleeps (1920) - Charles Brabin, director. Filmed at the new Fox studio on West Fifty-fifth Street and various New York locations. Silent, with musical accompaniment.
6. The Letter (1929) - Jean De Limur & Monta Bell, directors; based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. This is the first talking feature film made in New York. Courtesy The Library of Congress.
7. Way Down East (1920) - D. W. Griffith director; based on a play by Lottie Blair Parker; with Lillian Gish, actress. Griffith abandoned Hollywood in 1919, to film this at his new studio in Mamaroneck. Silent, with musical accompaniment.
8. The Struggle (1931) - D. W. Griffith., director (his last film); written by John Emerson & Anita Loos; with Hal Skelly, actor. A NY indie production filmed at the old Edison studio and on the streets of the Bronx.
9. Janice Meredith (1924) - E. Mason Hopper, director; with Marion Davies, Harrison Ford and others. Courtesy The Library of Congress. Silent, with musical accompaniment.
10. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) - Sidney Olcott, director; based on the novel by Booth Tarkington; with Rudolph Valentino, actor.

This event is co-organized by Laurence Kardish, MOMA Senior Curator, Department of Film, and Richard Koszarski, on whose book, ("Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff"), the exhibition is based.
For ticket information goto http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html#filmtickets

Marla LaRue, editor