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  • 100 years later, long-lost Clara Bow silent film found in parking lot

    03/10/2024 7:31:49 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 20 replies
    wifr.com ^ | March 9, 2024 | Marlo Lundak
    It’s a movie that hasn’t been seen in decades, missing for so long that many didn’t even know it existed. That is, until it turned up in Omaha, Nebraska. On a projector in a Kansas City home, Gary Huggins cues up a recent discovery. “I was relieved to find it wouldn’t explode!”, he said. Huggins soon refocused his attention from the technical to find something he definitely wasn’t expecting. “Wow, I think I’ve discovered this film that nobody’s seen in at least 50 years, if not 100,” Huggins said. Huggins, a filmmaker himself, picked up the film at an auction...
  • MI5 files: Was Chaplin really a Frenchman and called Thornstein?

    02/17/2012 2:13:51 PM PST · by Focault's Pendulum · 23 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 17 Feb 2012 | Tom Whitehead
    MI5 investigated whether Charlie Chaplin was actually a Frenchman called Israel Thornstein, previously secret files on the Hollywood film star have revealed. Intelligence officers could find no trace of the actor's birth in Britain despite Chaplin always claiming he was born in London in 1889. The mystery surrounding his origins emerged when the US authorities asked MI5 to look into the comic actor's background after he left America in 1952 under a cloud of suspicion over his communist links.