This year's Silent Summer Film Festival, running through August 26 with weekly Friday night shows at the Portage Theatre, has focused on the great female stars of the 1920s: Louise Brooks, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marion Davies (The Cardboard Lover, Fri 8/19, 8 PM), and Greta Garbo (The Mysterious Lady, Fri 8/26, 8 PM). But screening tonight at 8 PM is the indisputable classic on this year's schedule: F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), starring Janet Gaynor (perhaps best remembered for the original 1937 version of A Star Is Born).?
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