Mary Pickford, Lillian Russell, Glo... Apr 13, 2009
She first married when she was only seventeen, but this marriage to fellow-actor Wallace Beery lasted only two years. Her second husband was the president of Equity Pictures Corporation, and he later owned the Brown Derby restaurant. (Suite101.com)
Your oscar countdown quiz Feb 20, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009. Published: February 20. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Land before time: 11 great prehistoric flicks Mar 1, 2008
OBriens creations are the real stars of the movie, but future Oscar winner Wallace Beery (for 1932's The Champ) is also wonderful as the violently irascible Professor Challenger, the pompous head of the expedition to the plateau. . (MSNBC -- News)
* Filmdom waking up to high cost of digital archiving Dec 23, 2007
A picture could sit for many, many years, cool and comfortable, until some enterprising executive decided that the time was ripe for, say, a Wallace Beery special collection timed to a 25th-anniversary 3D rerelease of Barton Fink, with a hitherto unseen, behind-the-scenes peek at the Coen brothers trying to explain a Hollywood in-joke to John Turturro. It was a file-and-forget system that didn't cost much and made up for the self-destructive sins of an industry that discarded its earliest works... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
DVD watch: Films with precedents Nov 27, 2007
John Turturro is a New York "message" playwright assigned by studio vulgarians in 1941 to pound out a Wallace Beery wrestling pic. If Turturro is Clifford Odets here, John Mahoney likewise is William Faulkner. (USA Today -- Life)
New DVDs: Away From Me, The Graduate Sep 11, 2007
This two-disc set includes both Irwin Allens 1960 tale, starring Claude Rains, Michael Rennie and Jill St. John as members of an expedition that discovers dinosaurs living in the Amazon, and the 1925 silent adaptation featuring Wallace Beery. The set includes a featurette on the 1960 version, a vintage studio newsreel and a Lost World comic book. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Resurrecting the Champ packs no punch Aug 24, 2007
Resurrecting the Champ is not a sequel to The Champ, the male weepie that won a 1931 Oscar for Wallace Beery and launched Ricky Schroders career when it was remade in 1979. But the script, inspired by an L.A. Times magazine story, has much in common with its hammy predecessors. (MSNBC -- Movies)
A gangster underworld? Jul 20, 2007
In the mid-1910s, the Green Mill was an exclusive hangout for Essanay Studio executives and early film stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Wallace Beery. In recent decades, jazz musicians such as Clifford Jordan, Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. have graced its stage. (Chicago Tribune)
New life for 'bloodiest 47 acres' Jul 2, 2007
Actor Wallace Beery visited his chauffeur who was incarcerated at MSP.. Through the years, violence played a role in daily life. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Captain Jack breaks swashbuckling mold May 25, 2007
"But Bruckheimer said Jack Sparrow isn't vastly different from other pirates who've sailed Hollywood's seas, such as Wallace Beery, who starred as Long John Silver in 1934's "Treasure Island. ""He was outrageous, too," Bruckheimer said. "He was bigger than life and fun. (Florida Today)
Made in Maryland Mar 23, 2007
Starring Wallace Beery, Chester Morris and Virginia Gray. Tin Men (1987)Whoever thought of the complicated lives of aluminum siding salesman and the competitive nature of the business. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
Oscar's kids Feb 21, 2007
Career, post-Oscars: Teamed with Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931), The Bowery (1933) and Treasure Island (1934). Relegated to B-movies as he aged. (USA Today -- Life)
Silent siren out of the box (Gary Arnold) Feb 8, 2007
In Hollywood she began to emerge as a promising newcomer, particularly opposite W.C. Fields in "It's the Old Army Game" and while stirring rivalries between Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong in "A Girl in Every Port," directed by Howard Hawks, and then Richard Arlen and Wallace Beery in "Beggars of Life," directed by William Wellman. She also married one of her directors, comedy specialist Edward Sutherland, but each remained ill-suited to domesticity or fidelity. (Washington Times, DC)
