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The Chicago International Film Festival, which returns this weekend, debuted 60 years ago under the direction of 22-year-old independent filmmaker Michael Kutza with financial and in-kind support from ...

Colleen Moore was an icon of the flapper era, a fashion trendsetter and a silent film star admired by “Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald. After she retired from movies, success in business ...

FROM DUST TO STARDUST. By Kathleen Rooney. Lake Union Publishing. 285 pages. $28.99. Even the briefest summation of the biography of Colleen Moore sounds like a description of the lives of a catalogue ...

THE movies have done surprisingly right by Miss Sadie Thompson and “Rain.” The film, titled after her, can be found at the Rivoli. There have been a few slight changes in the story in the interest of ...