Overview
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Cast
Baby Peggy
Herself
Heather Linville
Herself - Film Preservationist: Academy Film Archive
Mike Mashon
Himself
Michael Pogorzelski
Himself
King Baggot
Himself (archive footage)
Theda Bara
Herself (archive footage)
Clara Bow
Herself (archive footage)
Louise Brooks
Herself (archive footage)
Lon Chaney
Himself (archive footage)
Betty Compson
Herself (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
Himself (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
Himself (archive footage)
Harry Langdon
Himself (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
Himself (archive footage)
Winnie Lightner
Herself (archive footage)
Nick Lucas
Himself (archive footage)
Victor McLaglen
Himself (archive footage)
Colleen Moore
Herself (archive footage)
George Raft
Himself (archive footage)
Lawrence Tibbett
Himself (archive footage)
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