Independent distributors Milestone have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray
Rags and Riches: The Mary Pickford Collection. The 3-disc collection will include four films:
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917),
The Hoodlum (1919),
Ramona (1910), and
Sparrows (1926). Street date is November 6th.
Disc 1.
The Poor Little Rich Girl. (75 min). Director: Maurice Tourneur. Music composed and conducted by Philip Carli, performed by the Flower City Society Orchestra. Also included: commentary by film historian Scott Eyman and a home movie from Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbank's legendary Hollywood home, Pickfair.
Disc 2.
The Hoodlum. (92 min). Director: Sidney A. Franklin. Orchestral Score by Bonnie Ruth Janofsky, performed by the Rouse Philharmonic, conducted by Hugh Munro Neely. This version of the film comes from the Academy Film Archive's 35mm restoration. Also included:
Ramona (17 min).
Disc 3.
Sparrows. (90 min). Director: William Beaudine. Score by Jeffrey Silverman, performed by the Rouse Philharmonic, conducted by Hugh Munro Neely. Restored by the Library of Congress. Also, an original 1926 trailer, the "Angel" outtakes, a video interview with Mary Louise Miller's daughter Louise Paziak, and commentary by film historians Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta.
Note: Blu-ray.com has a review for Lionel Rogosin's
On the Bowery, Milestone's first Blu-ray release,
here.