Charles Farrell News

Quite a few celebrities passed away in a short period of time toward the end of June.

The auspicious new DVD set called "Murnau, Borzage and Fox" grants pride of place to F.W. Murnau's 1927 feature "Sunrise," one of the most esteemed of late silent movies.

Genre: Romantic Drama Directed by: Frank Borzage Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran, David Butler, Marie Mosquini Last year when I was asked to do some interviews for a box set of ...

There's a legend about Mary Sanford, and this is what it says: Courtesy of Fox Home Entertainment enlarge Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell in City Girl, part of the Murnau, Borzage and Fox DVD box set.

Imagine yourself in the heart of Times Square on an April night in 1928. You're looking uptown from the corner of Broadway and 45th and the Great White Way is blazing, all those furiously incandescent white ...

The details: Last year, Fox issued Ford at Fox , a mammoth box set documenting the work of John Ford, the greatest of all American directors, who spent about half his career at Fox.

It could be argued that William Fox is the godfather of modern independent filmmaking.

There are those who prefer Murnau's "City Girl" to "Sunrise," but I'm not one of them.

The first time I saw Frank Borzage's "Lucky Star" was one of the two most transcendent moviegoing experiences I've ever had.