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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2007

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007

Retrospective: Anita Loos

The theme for this year's festival is Cinema And The Written Word, so it seems a fitting tribute that the organisers have picked Hollywood script queen Anita Loos for their retrospective. The programme states she was "a writer whose career took her from the silents through the Golden Age of the studios. She wrote for iconic directors, and made great actors into stars". In addition to the Loos features screening, there is also a special talk, Anita Loos Rediscovered, which offers the chance to see two of her early short films.

Programme

10 films

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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Musical extravaganza about a showgirl sister act.

(Country: US; Director: Richard Sale; Stars: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Scott Brady, Rudy Vallee, Guy Middleton)

UK Premiere

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe star in the big screen spectacular about Two Little Girls from Little Rock.

(Country: US; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow)

Hold Your Man

Hard-boiled romance sees a smalltime con fall for a loose woman.

(Country: US; Director: Sam Wood; Stars: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Dorothy Burgess, Muriel Kirkland, Stuart Erwin)

Intolerance

Silent film exploration of man's inhumanity to man.

(Country: US; Director: DW Griffith; Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Fred Turner, Robert Harron, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis)

Red-Headed Woman

Sex comedy starring Jean Harlow as a woman who's got it and knows how to use it to get a man with money.

(Country: US; Director: Jack Conway; Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Henry Stephenson)

San Francisco

Described by the festival programmers as: "Prototype disaster spectacular, with (literally) ground-breaking effects."

(Country: US; Director: WS Van Dyke II; Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy)

Saratoga

Race-track romp about a gambler's daughter trying to win back her dad's business.

(Country: US; Director: Jack Conway; Stars: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Una Merkel, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Lionel Barrymore)

The Struggle

Urban drama, tracing a man's descent into alcoholism.

(Country: US; Director: DW Griffith; Stars: Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Evelyn Baldwin, Jackson Halliday, Edna Hagan, Charlotte Wynters)

Susan And God

Social satire tackling religion and marriage.

(Country: US; Director: George Cukor; Stars: Fredric March, Joan Crawford, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth, Nigel Bruce)

The Women

Described by the festival programmers as: "A piercing paean to the weakness of males and the waspishness of females ."

(Country: US; Director: George Cukor; Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard)