#d.w. griffith

[citizenscreen]

#OnThisDay in 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith joined forces to create United Artists to have more control over their artistic and financial interests.

[thepopculturearchivist]

MOTION PICTURE NEWS, May 9, 1925. Heralding a rare moment when the OG United Artists had new releases lined up at roughly the same time.

The OGs had some new allies this season:

This specific project fell through, but Valentine delivered THE EAGLE later that year.

Hart, the first superstar screen cowboy, had been invited to be an OG back in 1919 but chickened out. He finally joined the fold with TUMBLEWEEDS, but then retired from film. Valentine would die in 1926 after one more film, but Gloria Swanson and Buster Keaton would get on board soon afterward. Meanwhile, Griffith made his next two films for Paramount and Chaplin wouldn't have another film ready until 1928.

[davidhudson]

D. W. Griffith, January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948.

[colorhollywood]

My Favorite Silent Films:

Der Student von Prag (1913) Directed by Stellan Rye

Cabria (1914) Director Giovanni Pastrone

Fantômas (1916) Director Louis Feuillade

Les Vampires (1915) Director Louis Feuillade

The Birth of a Nation (1915) Director D.W. Griffith

Judex (1916) Director Louis Feuillade

J'accuse (1919) Director Abel Gance

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) Director Robert Wiene

Körkarlen (1921) Director Victor Sjöström

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922) Director Fritz Lang

The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924) Directed by Mauritz Stiller

Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) Director Sergei Eisenstein

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Director Rupert Julian

Napoleon (1927) Director Abel Gance

Metropolis (1927) Director Fritz Lang

[picturessnatcher]

The White Rose (D.W. Griffith, 1923)

[adrian-paul-botta]

Robert Harron and Lillian Gish - promotional photograph for ''Hearts of the World'' (Griffith 1918)

[cine-poeme]

Intolerance (1916)

[frnndlcs]

Way Down East, D.W. Griffith, 1920

[iwatchfilmsbut]

Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919) // Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

[simulacrumaussois]

The Sorrows of Satan, directed by D. W. Griffith (1926)

Bela Lugosi's Dead, single by Bauhaus (1979)

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[citizenscreen]

United Artists was founded on February 5, 1919 #OnThisDay

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith signing their contracts. Lawyers Dennis F. O'Brien and Albert Banzhaf stand behind them.

[cinemaastimegoesby]

Lillian & Dorothy Gish on the set of Orphans of the Storm (1921).

[from1837to1945]

Adele De Garde & Owen Moore in The Golden Louis (1909, D.W. Griffith)

Adele De Garde (daughter) & James Kirkwood (father) & Kate Bruce (nurse) in Through the Breakers (1909, D.W. Griffith)

The Motion Picture Story Magazine, July 1911 / Motion Picture Magazine, Jun 1917

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Motion Picture Magazine, Jun 1917 / Motion Picture Magazine, May 1918

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Motion Picture Magazine, May 1916 / Motion Picture Magazine, Oct 1918

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[wamorris56-monstertheater]

'Sorrows of Satan' 1926. Screenshots.

[wanderingmind867]

Luke Cage is having a rough time. Dealing with Cottonmouth, the other Power Man and the Wrecking Crew (with The Defenders). On top of that, he hasn't made money in days and claire temple walked out on him and left for L.A. No wonder he's planning to go and hunt her down. (Luke Cage, Power Man #22):