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Great major Silent films star
posted by genplant29STAFFMOD on January 4, 2020 at 8:16 PM
Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) has long easily been my favourite male Silent films star. (John Gilbert is my second-most fave.) I'm a huge fan of him and various of his movies, for example Scaramouche (1923), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), and Across to Singapore (1928).
Novarro was a top-notch naturalistic actor, who had limitless screen presence, charisma and charm, of course great looks, and, in every regard, with seeming ease, could handily carry a film.
I should mention that his "talkies" work has never really done anything for me. It's Novarro of solely the Silent era that I'm so onboard about.
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Reply by QuitePleasant
on January 6, 2020 at 12:45 AM
Nice tribute!
Ramon certainly knows how to command screen attention for all of the various reasons which you mention. He really stands out in his Silent performances!
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Other notables, such as Valentino, Russ Columbo, John Gilbert or Ricardo Cortez really didn't have that same background at all, but pass the grade.
Great tribute! as Ramón Novarro continues to mean something to this day!
Reply by genplant29
on January 6, 2020 at 5:04 PM
Thanks, Quite!
Ramon had the good fortune to have starred in a number of major prestige productions that have survived (and that TCM broadcasts each of at least a couple or more times annually), while many other popular stars of the '20s are all but forgotten today due to few if any of their films surviving for people of the last several decades to have seen and be able to remember them from.
It's regrettable that Ramon's career fizzled after the early '30s; however, in talkies he just didn't have the same spark and magic as he had had in Silents.