LYON, France — “It,” the 1927 breakout movie of silent film star Clara Bow, to whom Taylor Swift paid tribute in a song named after her in “The Tortured Poets Department,” leads a deal between French classic film distributor Carlotta Films and U.S. restoration company Artcraft Pictures.
\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Carlotta will represent its Artcraft’s catalogue across all rights in France, bringing a collection of Hollywood classics from the silent and early sound eras to French theaters and home entertainment.
\n\nThe collaboration is being launched at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival with a newly restored version of Clarence G. Badger’s “It” (1927), the romantic comedy that propelled Clara Bow to stardom and established her as Hollywood’s original “It girl.” The film will screen Oct. 17 at Lyon’s Auditorium, accompanied on the organ by Italian musician Gabriele Agrimonti.
\n\nBow also inspired Margot Robbie’s character Nellie LaRoy in Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.”
\n\nOther titles covered by the agreement include Herbert Brenon’s “Beau Geste” (1926), starring Ronald Colman; Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Affairs of Anatol” (1921), starring Gloria Swanson; and William C. deMille’s “Miss Lulu Bett,” adapted from Zona Gale’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The slate also extends to early sound films, including…
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