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Three Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg on DVD
A three-disc set that includes the 1927 prototype for all gangster films, Underworld, Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928), for which he won a Best Actor Oscar® & The Docks of New York (1928).
 
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in his new biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image.
 
Furious Love: A Book Review
It is the assertion of Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, authors of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century, that "Dickenliz" were the first celebrity couple long before Brangelina or Katie and Tom were making the scene. GET THE DETAILS.
 
Kim Novak Stars in the 1957 Biopic Jeanne Eagels
This is George Sidney's underrated film biography of the famed stage and silent star who battled drug addiction to build a career and find love. Jeff Chandler and Agnes Moorehead co-star.
 
Fantomas: The Complete Saga on DVD
This five-disc collection features all five 1913-14 silent serials--"Fantomas" (1913), "Juve Contre Fantomas" (1913), "Le Mort Qui Tue" (1913), "Fantomas Contre Fantomas" (1914), and "Le Faux Magistrat" (1914) - helmed by renowned director Louis Feuillade.
 
Alexander Kluge's Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave on DVD
Three decades before Mike Leigh tackled the subject in Vera Drake, director Alexander Kluge cast his own sister in the role of a housewife and mother who also provides abortion services for women in need in this controversial 1973 German film.
 

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