Gloria Swanson News

From Ebert and Roeper to Rotten Tomatoes, from Rolling Stone to the Academy Awards, "The Artist" is making headlines and movie buffs all over are a-buzz with this unique, new silent film that is nothing but a class act from start to finish.

As the film awards approach, our fatal attraction to Brad Pitt et al grows, just as interest in their films diminishes 'My own Oscar grief this year is all about George Clooney and Brad Pitt', who are both nominated for best actor.

"All right, Mr. DeMille , I'm ready for my close-up," says washed-up silent film star Norma Desmond in the final scene of Billy Wilder 's unforgettable 1950 film Sunset Boulevard .

Feb. 13: "The Lost Weekend," 1945. Ray Milland plays an alcoholic writer desperately trying to get his life under control during a four-day drinking binge.

Riotous laughs, breathless thrills and weeping pathos - film managed all that when the movies were silent, the movies were black and white, and the movies were shot on actual celluloid.

Jerry Seinfeld will be a guest on the premiere of "Inside Comedy," hosted by "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" David Steinberg.

Riotous laughs, breathless thrills and weeping pathos - film managed all that when the movies were silent, the movies were black and white, and the movies were shot on actual celluloid.

Erich von Stroheim's rarely seen silent film from 1929 stars Gloria Swanson as a woman who starts out in a convent and ends up running a brothel.