Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! I hope that 2022 saw good things for everyone, and a return to something of a normal life. Though we’re all still trying to keep COVID at bay, I was able to attend so many more events this year, and realized how much I had missed them.
Tonight, I’ll be doing one of those in-person events at the Niles Essanay Film Museum in the Niles district of Fremont, CA. We’ll be showing Zander the Great, a very exciting, genre-defying film from 1925 and Marion Davies’s first film to be made solely in California. It’s a film that is quite rarely seen–but thanks to some stellar preservation work in the past year and a DVD release from the great Ben Model at Undercrank Productions, we now have it publicly available.
I’ll be signing books afterward. The activities start at 7:30–seeing a movie at Niles really is the best deal in town, because for a measly $8, you get vintage cartoons, a movie with an intermission, and almost always an informative talk beforehand. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, come and join us.
GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT!
Also, I wanted to tell you about Marion Davies as Star of the Month on TCM next month. Unfortunately, we couldn’t make it work for me to come on and introduce the movies, but I’m doing a big giveaway of Captain of Her Soul next month to coincide with TCM’s Star of the Month programming! Here’s how to enter this week:
Let me know in the comments section what Marion Davies movie you’re looking forward to on TCM next month. It can be an old favorite, or one you’ve never seen. Just something you’d like to see, and I’ll enter you into the drawing! Here are the movies being shown in January:
January 3 (Marion Davies’s birthday, by the way)
THE BRIDE’S PLAY (1921)
BEAUTY’S WORTH (1922)
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER (1922)
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK (1923)
BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK (1926)
THE RED MILL (1927)
January 10
THE PATSY (1928)
SHOW PEOPLE (1928)
MARIANNE (1929)
THE FLORODORA GIRL (1930)
NOT SO DUMB (1930)
HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929 (1929)
January 17
THE BACHELOR FATHER (1931)
FIVE AND TEN (1931)
BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES (1932)
POLLY OF THE CIRCUS (1932)
GOING HOLLYWOOD (1933)
OPERATOR 13 (1934)
January 24
PEG O’ MY HEART (1933)
PAGE MISS GLORY (1935)
HEARTS DIVIDED (1936)
CAIN AND MABEL (1936)
There is only 1 book to give away, but I will do 4 weeks of different questions. If you answer the question every week for all 4 weeks, you get 4 entries. I’m conducting this giveaway here, and on my social media platforms.
Any questions? Just ask!
Thank you all for continuing to bear with me in these busy times with the book. I wish you all the happiest of new years, and more to come in 2023!
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Backlots 
“The Patsy”, “Show People”, “Beauty’s Worth”