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As The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film Begins to Wane

December 4, 2024, 7:19 pm

Swedish Silent Film scholar Bo Florin makes note of the province held by Nils Bouveng at the newly structured Svenska Filmindustri after the merger had taken place of the smaller companies into one and...

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The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film: Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller

January 3, 2025, 5:25 pm

"The Image Makers see their images emerge out of the story. And then suddenly: darkness."- Per Olov Enquist in Bildmakarna, a fictional account of Victor Sjostrom, Julius Jaenzon, Tora Teje and Selma...

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Calles New Clothes (Calles Nya Klader, G...

April 12, 2025, 2:09 am

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Sweden Talks, Waiting in Vain for Greta Garbo; Victor Sjostrom the actor

April 18, 2025, 9:14 pm

Author Jon Wengstrom has noted that as early as October of 1933 director Gustaf Molander and cameraman Julius Jaenzon were among the founding members of the Swedish Film Society (Svenska...

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Swedish Silent Film: Love and Jornalism (Karleck Och Journalistik, Mauritz...

April 20, 2025, 1:49 am

Mauritz Stiller directed "Karleck och Journalista", a comedy based on the writing of Harriet Bloch, in 1916. The film stars Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson, Stina Berg, Gucken Cederberg and Karin...

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen,Victor...

April 22, 2025, 10:34 pm

With the subtitles Sweden Strikes a Lyrical Note, Garbo is Lost and Found, and Sweden Studio is Re-Born, in 1947 author Leslie Wood, in her book Miracle of the Movies, note the contribution of Victor...

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Scott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Masterkatten i Stovlar (John Bruniu...

April 23, 2025, 6:27 pm

Author Forsyth Hardy, in his volume Scandinavian film explains that the film "Puss and Boots" was for Swedish Silent Film director John Brunius an early, debut attempt at filmaking and that he quickly...

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Gyurkoricsarna (John Brunius, 1920)

April 23, 2025, 6:46 pm

Suprisingly, the screenplay of "Lieutenant Tophat" (Gyurkoriscarna) is credited to Pauline Brunius and Gosta Ekman, who star in the film with Gucken Cederberg and Jessie Wessel in her first on screen...

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Synnöve Solbakken (Brunius, 1919)

April 24, 2025, 2:09 pm

The first adaptation based on the novel written by Bjornstjerne Bjornson in 1857, the film was co-scripted by John Brunius and Sam Ask, John W. Brunius having directed the film. It starred actresses...

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Swedish Silent Film Stars on the Theater Stage

April 24, 2025, 2:17 pm

Pauline Brunius During 1911, Pauline Brunius acted on stage at the Svenska Teatern. After directing and acting in film, Pauline Brunius, wife of Swedish Silent Film director John Brunius, went on to...

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Scott Lord: Greta Garbo in The Divine Woman (1928, Victor Sjostrom)

April 24, 2025, 7:24 pm

"The Divine Woman" directed in the United States during 1928 featured three Swedish Silent Film stars from the Golden Age of Swedish Silent film, two of whom, Victor Sjostrom and Lars Hanson, would...

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Greta Garbo in The Temptress (Fred Niblo)

April 27, 2025, 7:38 pm

The periodical Motion Picture News during 1926 the filming of "Temptress" with a review entitled "Greta Garbo in the Title Role of 'The Temptress'. It read,"Greta Garbo, Swedish actress, will have the...

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Greta Garbo In The Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst, 1...

April 27, 2025, 8:17 pm

In The Film Till Now, a survey off world cinema, Paul Rotha writes, “It is impossible to witness the showing a Film by Pabst without marveling at his unerring choice of camera angle for the expression...

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Greta Garbo in The Torrent (Monta Bell, 1926)

April 27, 2025, 8:26 pm

A suitable story for director Mauritz Stiller, famous Swedish director who just began work under M.G.M. contract is now being sought and will be announced at an early date. Greta Garbo, who has also...

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Greta Garbo in Love (Edmund Goulding,1927)

April 27, 2025, 9:35 pm

The film was photographed by William Daniels. Greta Garbo in Lovesilent Film

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The Photoplay: Silent FIlm Movie Posters; Lon Chaney

April 30, 2025, 7:39 pm

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)

April 30, 2025, 8:11 pm

Tod Browning during 1925 directed Lon Chaney and Mae Busch in "The Unholy Three" (seven reels). The photoplay was written by Waldemar Young, adapted from the novel by Clarence Aaron Robbins. Picture...

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Thomas Graal’s Basta Barn (Mauritz Still..

May 1, 2025, 3:06 pm

Peter Cowie, in his volume Scandinavian Cinema, writes, "The domestic relationships and erotic byplay in Stiller's comedies posses an application and validity beyond their immediate setting- and...

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Scott Lord Silent Film: (The Hell Ship 1923, Victor Sjostrom)

May 7, 2025, 4:05 pm

"The Hellship" (Eld Omboard), directed by Victor Sjostrom and co-scripted by Victor Sjostrom and Hjalmer Bergman, starred actresses Jenny Hasselqvist, Julia Cederblad and Wanda Rothgardt. Victor...

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, The Serpen...

May 7, 2025, 5:04 pm

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, The Tragic...

May 7, 2025, 5:06 pm

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, The Shatter...

May 7, 2025, 5:19 pm

Silent FilmThe Swedish censorship of 1911 prevented "The Perils of Pauline from becoming familiar to audieneces in Sweden. Marina Dahlquist, in her article "The Best Known Woman in the World" writes...

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Scott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: The Gardner (Tradgardsmastanen, Vic...

May 7, 2025, 5:33 pm

Banned in Sweden during 1912, "The Gardner", written by Mauritz Stiller and directed by Victor Sjostrom was thought to be lost untill a surviving copy was found sixty eight years later in the Library...

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Gosta Ekman in Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)

May 7, 2025, 7:09 pm

The immanent departure of director F.W. Murnau for America had already been announced by the periodical Motion Picture News during late 1925 while Murnau was readying the film "Faust". It was to star...

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