{"id":24298,"date":"2017-02-20T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24298"},"modified":"2017-02-20T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:33:47","slug":"francis-x-bushman-king-of-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/francis-x-bushman-king-of-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis X. Bushman: King of the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/f-x-b-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/f-x-b-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/f-x-b-.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/f-x-b--300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/f-x-b--1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>100 years ago, Francis X. Bushman was one of the top stars of the movie industry. Today, he is either mostly forgotten or only remembered for his least characteristic role as the villainous Messala in the 1925 version of &#8220;Ben-Hur.&#8221; On this episode, film historian Lon Davis recalls Bushman&#8217;s turbulent film career &#8211; which was full of amazing scandals &#8211; and his late-life comeback on TV, including appearances on &#8220;You Bet Your Life&#8221; and &#8220;Batman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Online Movie Show&#8221; is produced at the Platinum Wolfe Studios.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onlinemovieshow\/francisxbushman\" target=\"_blank\">The episode can be heard here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 years ago, Francis X. Bushman was one of the top stars of the movie industry. Today, he is either mostly forgotten or only remembered for his least characteristic role as the villainous Messala in the 1925 version of &#8220;Ben-Hur.&#8221; On this episode, film historian Lon Davis recalls Bushman&#8217;s turbulent film career &#8211; which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1532],"tags":[1585,1584,1583,944],"class_list":["post-24298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-movie-show","tag-ben-hur","tag-classic-movies","tag-francis-x-bushman","tag-silent-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24303,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24298\/revisions\/24303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}