#Paramount Players

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Mean Girls | Official Trailer (2024 Movie)

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Synopsis

From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

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Orphan: First Kill

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo ripreso, come facciamo ormai da un po’, a parlare di animazione, spostandoci in Giappone, e discutendo non solo del primo lungometraggio di un grande artista ma anche uno dei film più importanti per un personaggio ormai storico ossia Lupin III – Il castello di Cagliostro. Lupin, dopo aver fatto un colpo al casin�� di Monte…

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A young Eva Gabor in promotional photos for Paramount Pictures, 1941.

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Insane how one of the best fictional series of the last 3 years is a league of legends esports mockumentary by the American Vandal guys now only available as an unlisted playlist on the funny or die YouTube channel

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Producer and co-founder of what would become Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958)

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Looks like Geddy Lee is coming out with a docuseries on Paramount+ which also features Les Claypool...wonder if there's a chance we'll see a Matt cameo in an episode at some point too??👀👀👀

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Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? | Trailer

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Movie poster by an unknown artist for the 1923 Paramount motion picture Bluebeards 8th Wife. This was Gloria Swanson's 24th film and 16th for Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount. It's considered a lost film.

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Lost, but Not Forgotten: Prodigal Daughters (1923)

Direction: Sam Wood

Scenario: Monte M. Katterjohn

Original Novel: Joseph Hocking

Camera: Alfred Gilks

Studio: Paramount (production) & Famous Players-Lasky (distribution)

Performers: Gloria Swanson, Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, Theodore Roberts, Louise Dresser, Charles Clary, Robert Agnew, Maude Wayne, Jiquel Lanoe, George Fawcett, Eric Mayne

Flying Stunts: Leo Nomis

Premiere: 15 April 1923

Status: presumed entirely lost

Length: 6,216 feet, or roughly 70 minutes.*

Synopsis (synthesized from magazine summaries of the plot):

Elinor “Swiftie” Forbes (Gloria Swanson) and her sister Marjory (Vera Reynolds) are committed to living life on the “jazz route” at their comfy estate on Long Island. With their freshly bobbed hair, they attend the links on Sunday instead of church, party all night, smoke cigarettes, and drink. They live by the “Seven Deadly Whims:”

New Lips to Kiss. 

Freedom from Conventions. 

A New World for Women. 

No More Chaperons. 

Life with a Kick in It. 

The Single Moral Standard. 

Our Own Latchkeys.

Their mother (Louise Dresser) also thinks young and doesn’t try to restrict or discipline her daughters. The patriarch of the family is J.D. Forbes (Theodore Roberts), a locomotive magnate who became a millionaire off WWI. J.D. has been away on business in Europe for three years.

Back in New York around the Fourth of July, Stanley Garside (Charles Clary), who runs a gambling den, throws a party for Swiftie, which includes a firework display in her honor. On the radio, the crowd hears a lecture by a Doctor Marco Strong (Eric Mayne) decrying the moral degradation of the younger generation. Swiftie broadcasts her rebuttal from her own device.

Roger Corbin (Ralph Graves), an aviator who also happens to be an engineer at J.D.’s locomotive works, is flying nearby and hears Swiftie’s rebuttal. Corbin decides to make a landing at the party and invites Swiftie for a ride. She accepts, but bad weather forces them to land and they get waylaid overnight at a local inn. Swiftie’s friends pick her up in the morning and Corbin and Swiftie part without Swiftie knowing Corbin’s identity.

Meanwhile, Marjory is being pursued by songwriter Lester Hodges (Robert Agnew).

J.D. returns from Europe soon after with no one to meet him but his chauffeur. He’s horrified to see how the women in his family are living. They’ve even converted his billiard room into a dance parlor complete with buffet bar! J.D. bans smoking, drinking, parties, and Lester.

Theodore Roberts in Prodigal Daughters from Motion Picture Magazine, August 1923

Swiftie meets Corbin at her father’s house and learns he works for dad. Corbin proposes marriage to her, but she rejects him. The daughters rebel against their newly returned father and decide to make their own way in Greenwich Village. 

Marjory marries Lester and Swiftie gets to earning a living on her own. Garside persues Swiftie and she takes to gambling at his establishment. Marjory finds out that Lester was only interested in her for her dad’s money and they split. Swiftie escorts Marjory back to their parents house, but vows to stick to her new independent lifestyle. 

Unfortunately, Swiftie begins losing heavily at Garside’s. Garside agrees to a wager against Swiftie’s debt so that, if she loses again, he’ll clear her debt, but she has to marry him within 60 days. Swiftie loses.

On Christmas Eve, Swiftie and Garside are partying at a speakeasy when the joint gets raided by prohibition agents. Luckily for Swiftie, Corbin has been out looking for her and he finds her just in time to help her escape.

The climax features an accident with a newly designed locomotive and Swiftie and Garside in his automobile. Garside is killed, but Corbin is able to rescue Swiftie and they escape via airplane.

Swiftie and Corbin get together and she returns to her parent’s home, penitent.

Scenes from Prodigal Daughters from Motion Picture News, 29 December 1923

Additional Info:

There is a sequence in the film that depicts the operation of a high-tech beauty parlor, wherein Louise Dresser’s character gets a face lift. It takes place before her husband returns from abroad, but I’m not certain with any more detail than that where it fits chronologically in the summary above.

There appears to be two sequences or at least two parts to the climatic sequence where Garside dies and Swiftie is rescued by Corbin. I’m not sure based on the summaries available precisely how they fit together, so I just described both instead of hypothesizing with no data.

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Points of Interest:

This movie was Swanson’s 9th film out of a total of 10 with director Sam Wood. 

The full list goes:

The Great Moment (1921, only a fragment survives at BFI),

Under the Lash (1921, presumed lost),

Don’t Tell Everything (1921, presumed lost),

Her Husband’s Trademark (1922, extant on 16mm at George Eastman House & Gosfilmofond),

Her Gilded Cage (1922, presumed lost), 

Beyond the Rocks (1922, extant at Nederlands Filmmuseum, and available on home video via Milestone Films.), 

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922, presumed lost), 

My American Wife (1922, presumed lost),

Prodigal Daughters (1923, presumed lost),

Bluebeard’s 8th Wife (1923, presumed lost)

That is only a 20 percent survival rate! 

[Survival status checked via LOC’s Silent Feature Film Database, and re-checked at relevant archives when available]

If you happened to read my post profiling Racing Hearts (1923), you may remember that Theodore Roberts also plays a magnate who goes abroad to Europe and has a flapper daughter, with whom he doesn’t see eye to eye. These two films were released only two months apart, so I imagine it was pretty nice for Roberts to be able to take the “two birds, one stone” approach in preparing for his work. What a type to specialize in! 

*The film was edited by censors in various state markets, so the runtime of a print in NY wouldn’t be identical to a print in Kansas.

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sometime between last night and an hour ago they gutted the comedy central site and removed almost every daily show clip btw. like unless it was one of like 10 interviews or it was in that "jon's best moments" category it's fucking Gone you just get an error page or redirected to paramount+. also the colbert report was completely wiped too. btw.

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Please for the love of god watch Players, it’s one of the best shows that came out this year and was given a criminal lack of publicity. It’s by the people that made American Vandal and if you liked that you’ll love this. You don’t have to know anything about esports to enjoy it! It’s free (for now) and only 10 episodes long. Please give it a try you will not regret it

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Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo messo in pausa il cinema e siamo tornati ancora una volta a parlare di fumetti, questa volta con il primo volume di una nuova serie fantasy nostrana che sembra avere un grande potenziale, Kalya. La storia ci narra di Kalya, una ragazza che insieme al suo amico goblin Tagh vive alla giornata per sopravvivere, fino a quando non…

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Here is the trailer for the upcoming docuseries Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?  The premise is he visits fellow bass players Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, Melissa Auf der Maur of Hole, Robert Trujillo of Metallica, and Les Claypool of Primus, to explore their expansive worlds beyond music. It will be available to stream December 5th on Paramount+.

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Two things about this scene on the beach:

I can 100% see Sisko's dick in those swim shorts

It's so fucking windy out there and I can only imagine what a fucking nightmare it was to film this scene. How many takes were there, how many hours of waiting around in the trailer waiting for the wind to die down even a little so your audio guy didn't try to hang himself?

Secret third thing: Sisko says, "This is Gilgo Beach, where we met!" and I was like 'GILGO BEACH?!'

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on to the next sandwich !

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this is really the television show of all time.