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Originally Posted by tovangar2
It may be the dearth of big-name celebrity burials that's rendered Angelus Abbey so anonymous:
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I thought I'd check out this Drew guy.
One of the first things I discovered was that he played Felipe in the rediscovered 1928 film
'Ramona'.
starring Dolores Del Rio
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This '
Ramona' was considered a lost film.
Here's Roland Drew in a scene with the lovely Dolores Del Rio.
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HISTORY / REDISCOVERY
"The Nazis confiscated the copy (now the only copy) of "Ramona" in the former Czechoslovakia, which they occupied in 1939,
and brought it (and countless other films) to Berlin. Next, when the Soviet Union liberated Berlin,
"Ramona" was removed to the Soviet film archive, Gosfilmofond, outside of Moscow. Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union,
Czech archivist Myrtil Frida found it in Gosfilmofond (now the State Film Fund of the Russian Federation)
and carried "Ramona" back to the Czech National Film Archive (Národní filmový archiv) in Prague."
So the film survived WWII
and the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Roland Drew [1900 - 1988]
R.I.P.