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21 April 2012

Rarely viewed version of “The Great Gatsby” starring Alan Ladd opens film noir festival

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An unusual choice for the opening act of the Noir City film festival — The Great Gatsby (1949, Paramount) in a new 35 mm print. The festival, now on at the Egyptian Theatre, is co-produced by the Film Noir Foundation and the American Cinematheque.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great masterwork from 1925 is far from pulp [...]

2 April 2012

Noir City: Hollywood, 14th annual festival of film noir opens soon @ Egyptian Theatre

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Anticipates with a tingling spine the annual film noir festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. [...]

20 July 2010

As a dad, Alan Ladd walked tall

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“The Blue Dahlia” a hard-boiled crime film written as an original screenplay by novelist Raymond Chandler had a marvelous screening at the Academy, with a curtain talk by star Alan Ladd’s second son, David Ladd.

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