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Edward Wagenkneckt, in his volume The Films of D.W. Griffith, points out that "Sally of the Sawdust" (1925) ,photographed by Harry Fischback and Hal Sintzernich and starring W.C. FIelds and actress Carol Dempster , was made by D.W. Griffith at Paramount but , at Griffith's behest, released through United Artists. Wagerneckt notes that the film features several sight gags involving W.C. Fields that are worth watching.
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Picture Play Magazine in a photo caption wrote that actress Aileen Pringle "abandoned some of her impressive dignity" to portray the "hoydenish" fake travelling mystic in Tod Browning's film, "The Mystic" (1926 seven reels). Silent Film Lon Chaney Silent Horror Film Movie Posters

Scholar Bo Florin points out that a famiar image in "He Who Gets Slapped" (seven reels), directed by Victor Sjostrom is referred to in the cutting continuity script as the "Symbolic Clown", the isolated character dressed in white recurrently appearing spinning his ball. Florin looks at the function of this image within the narrative as bookending sequences with a direct adress to the audience. Albeit while blogging David Bordwell notes that the film was a great success, mostly due to the emerging talent of Lon Chaney, he does in fact give the film only a brief mention when looking at Scandinavia's Golden Age of Silent Film Drawing to a Close, which can very much be attributed to Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller both coming to America.
Begnt Forslund compares Sjostrom's direction of "He Who Gets Slapped" with the direction of "The Scarlet Letter", the former being 'more personal, and also more cinematically exciting' while the latter can be recognized as a return to the type of film that Sjostrom made in Sweden, to which he returned. Not incidentally, it was the Swedish actor Gosta Ekmann who had portrayed the Lon Chaney character in "Han som far orilarna" on stage during 1926 in Stockholm at the Oscateatern.
As film criticism often inludes audience reception on the part of the journalist-spectator, it may be worth looking at fan magazines from the first-run of the film, not so much for the public sphere of reception, which perhaps includes the art house, but for the public dimension. Picture Play Magazine wrote of Lon Chaney, "As the loveable clown in the Metro-Goldwyn feature 'He Who Gets Slapped' he gives a achara terization of rare qualities and when he dies he pulls your heart strings untill the really break."
Norma Shearer and John Gilbert starred in a second film together for the Metro-Goldwyn Picture Corporation during 1924 with Conrad Nagel, "The Snob" (seven reels), directed by Monta Bell. The film is a lost silent film, with no surviving copies existing. Also presumed lost is the six reel film "The Wolf Man" in which Norma Shearer and John Gilbert starred together under the direction of Edmund Mortimer for the Fox Film Corporation during 1923. John Gilbert and Lon Chaney had starred together under the direction of Maurice Tourneur in the 1923 six reel film "While Paris Sleeps".The film is presumed lost with no surviving copies existing.
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Author Forsyth Hardy, in his volume Scandinavian film explains that the film "Puss and Boots" was for Swedish Silent Film director John Brunius an early, debut attempt at filmaking and that he quickly established himself among his contemporary directors of the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film by directing historical dramas.
The beautiful Mary Johnson stars with Gosta Ekman in the film, the director John Brunius also appearing in the film onscreen with son Palle Brunius. The cinematography was done by photographers Gustav A. Gustafson and Carl Gustav Florin.
"Puss and Boots" featured the first on screen appearance of actress Anna Carlsten.
To connect the directing of John Brunius to that of Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller and the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film that emphasized man's relationship with a personified enviornment, one can look at a photocaption praising actress Mary Johnson in the periodical Photoplay Magazine during 1919, "Miss Johnson is an ingenue leading woman of a type that we make favorites of in America. Location work in Sweden hasn't become a bore, evidently, as both town and country people, impressed by the novelty of the thing are heartily inclined to make the companies their guests instead of momentary suspected tenants." Photoplay Magazine, in a second photocaption featuring Gista Ekman, announced that the film was as not yet having finished post-production but that it was scheduled to run in America. "The Skandia Film Commision, the employer of these young stars is doing some really big plays on the screen....The Skandia Film Corporation has just finished the construction of a great glass studio modelled after and lighted by American methods near Langagen, north of Stockholm." Honestly, as a modern American reader, one would casually think this was written after the merger creating Svensk Filmindustri had already taken place. Photoplay Magazine later, while formally announcing that Svensk Biografteatern and Skandia had combined, called actress Mary Johnson the "Mary Pickford of the Land of the Midnight Sun" and "Sweden's Sweetheart". The theme of the article, although Mary Johnson would soon be appearing in an adaptation of the works of Selma Lagerloff by director Mauritz Stiller, Swedish audiences seemed uncontrollable over the appearance of Charles Chaplin in "A Dog's Life".
Actress Mary Johnson during 1918 also appeared in the Swedish Silent Film "Storstadfaror", directed by Manne Gothson, who had appeared with her that year as an actor under the direction of George af Klercker. The film was photographed by Gustaf A. Gustafson. Appearing with Mary Johnson in the film were Agda Helin, Tekla Sjoblom and Lilly Crowin. Mary Johnson appeared in the titular role together with Carl Barklind that year in the film "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter" (Fyrvaktarens dotter), which featured an onscreen appearance of Johnson's daughter Maj.
Mary Johnson and Gosta Ekman were reunited for the film "En Lyckoriddare" (John Brunius, 1921).
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Motion Picture News of 1928 reported, "Before starting on a co-starring role in 'The Spieler' for Pathe-DeMille, Jacqueline Logan will barely have time enough to star in 'The Lookout Girl' for which she has been signed for Quality Pictures at the Tee-Art Studios." The "Lookout Girl" (seven reels) was directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald from a photoplay by Adrian Johnson. Photoplay Magazine 1929 reviewed the film with, "The plot becomes complicated but clears up in some mysterious fashion and everything manages to be 'hotsy-totsy' with Jacqueline Logan safe in Ian Kieth's arms. Unworthy of your attention."
Actress Jacqueline Logan during 1928 also starred in the seven reel Silent Horror Film "The Leopard Lady", directed by Rupert Julian. The film is presumed to be lost, with no surviving copies existing.
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Actress Karen Molander appeared with the Intima Teatern between 1911-1920 while married to Swedish Silent Film screenwriter and director Gustaf Molander. She began filming under the direction of Victor Sjostrom during 1914.
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