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Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson (left) and Marion Davies (right) at a party held at the Ambassador's French Room on October 31, 1928, to celebrate Marion's return from a three-month tour.

Second photo - Marion Davies with Buster Keaton.

In the third photo - Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies and Harry Crocker.

In the group photo, guests, probably not all, who attended the party - standing, from left to right: Lorraine Eddy, Matt Moore, Aileen Pringle, Louis B. Mayer, Gloria Swanson, Harry D'Arrast, Miss Davies, Louella O. Parsons, Ricardo Cortez, Charlie Chaplin, Norma Shearer, Irving G. Thalberg, Harold Lloyd and Robert Z. Leonard. Seated in the foreground are Harry Crocker, left, and William Haines.

The Ambassador's French Room was transformed into a Parisian café for a surprise party for Miss Davies on 31 October 1928.

On this occasion, heartfelt thanks to the friends of the "Charlie Chaplin for the Ages" group on the Facebook community site, for providing some photos for this post.

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After looking over the golfers on the Metro lot, we lay our bets on Buster Keaton, who has made "The Three Ages" for Metro. He may not have the perfect stance of Matt Moore (left), who is a featured player in the Niblo-Metro picture, "Strangers of the Night," and he may not be so sure of his shots as Champion Gene Sarazen (extreme right), but he does possess a "whale" of a set of clubs. All the boys needs is an opportunity to make good.

-Exhibitors Herald, July 28, 1923

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Matthew Moore on Instagram Reels

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Consolation Marriage (1931) Paul Sloane

April 14th 2024

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August illustration for Manpower's 2011 calendar, by Matt Moore

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The First Year (1926): The cure for matrimonial measles

This is an expanded version of an essay I wrote for Sight and Sound in 2020. The First Year (Frank Borzage, 1926) screens this week at MoMA on the opening night of the After Alice, Beyond Lois programme, curated by Kate Saccone and Dave Kehr to commemorate 10 years of the Women Film Pioneers Project. Frank Borzage was one of the greatest Hollywood directors of young love. When we remember his…

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Mary Astor-Matt Moore "Dry martini" 1928, de Harry d´Abbadie d´Arrast.

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The Passionate Pilgrim, Everyone's, Vol.2 No.66, 8th June, 1921

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~ Alliterative August ~

Matt Moore

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The Unholy Three

Tod Browning moved from craftsman to auteur with his first MGM film, THE UNHOLY THREE (1925, TCM, Prime, Tubi, YouTube). It marked the start of a fruitful collaboration with producer Irving G. Thalberg and star Lon Chaney that would result in eight ever more outré films mixing suspense and horror with a mordant, transgressive wit bordering on the absurd.

Drawing on his own background in the circus, Browning chose to adapt Tod Robbins’ novel about a trio of sideshow artists who move into crime when their show is shut down by the police. Chaney is Echo the ventriloquist, who masquerades as an old woman to run a pet shop, with little person Harry Earles as his infant grandson and strong man Victor McLaglen as his son-in-law. Using his skills, Chaney sells parrots to the rich. When the customers complain that the birds won’t speak, he and Earles pay a house call to case the joint. All goes well until a mark gets killed, and Chaney’s lady love, pickpocket Mae Busch, falls for the patsy (Matt Moore) working at the store.

Even in a silent film, Chaney as a sweet old lady is a tour-de-force, and Browning and he have the timing to make his sometimes-rapid character transitions very funny. Add to that the sight of Earle in a baby gown strutting around smoking a cigar, and you get a delightfully queer little family unit. For the first hour or so, the film moves at a good clip. The denouement seems a bit too protracted, but it’s worth it for the final pay off. This is, by the way, another film that largely puts paid to the idea of silent acting as overly broad. Chaney has some beautiful subtle moments, as when he realizes he’s losing Busch. She makes a memorable bad girl with a big heart. And if you only know McLaglen from his later character work, you’ll be surprised to see how convincingly he plays the strong man in the sideshow opening.

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Seen in 2023:

The First Year (Frank Borzage), 1926

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Matt Moore takes 45. Last worn by Peter O'Brien in 2019.

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Los Angeles Angels on Instagram: "opening day, here we come 🤟"

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