Michael F. Blake

Michael F. Blake

Movies for Michael F. Blake...

Chaney's Secrets Revealed
Title: Chaney's Secrets Revealed
Released: October 23, 2012
Type: Movie
A video tour of Chaney's actual make-up case and the "double-amputee" costume worn in The Penalty, guided by Michael F. Blake, the author of three books on Cheney.
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Palace of Silents
Title: Palace of Silents
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.
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Monument Valley: John Ford Country
Title: Monument Valley: John Ford Country
Character: Self
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about John Ford's relation to Monument Valley.
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Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
Title: Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
Character: Himself
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Short documentary about the making of the John Ford/John Wayne film "Stagecoach".
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Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
Title: Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Title: Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
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Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Title: Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Character: Messenger Boy
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.
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Future Cop
Title: Future Cop
Character: Teenager
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been programmed by the police lab.
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Carousel
Title: Carousel
Character: (as Michael Blake)
Released: May 7, 1967
Type: Movie
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.