

DavidEzell
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@davidezell
NYC-based writer, actor and singer with the greatest day job in the world. Founder of @CamelbackFilms and @DarienWellness



Silent Movie Week 2026 Jul 29-Aug 3 7 new silent film restorations (6 from MoMA!) The series opens with D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, accompanied by a 10-piece orchestra performing the original 1920 score on July 29 moma.org/calendar/film/…


I’ve been rewatching Kevin Brownlow’s early ‘80s ‘Hollywood’ series on YouTube. It’s fantastic, and it has one of the great TV themes (by Carl Davis.)

The steps in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles used for LAUREL AND HARDY’s iconic Comedy are still there & being used today. THE MUSIC BOX (1932)

One of the greatest singers to ever walk this earth.

Jean Harlow, George Raft, and Arline Judge sign autographs for up-and-coming teenage actor Frankie Darro, recent star of Wild Boys of the Road (1933), at a Marion Davies ‘Gay Nineties’ party thrown at the Café Vendome on October 13, 1933.



Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948)



