RETURN TO BABYLON

“Return to Babylon“ reveals the scandals and decadent lives of the 1920’s greatest movie stars. (Silent, black and white with a music score.) Director Alex Monty Canawati’s fast-paced, sexy, bitingly funny yet poignant look at Hollywood’s silent movie era in the 1920s boasts an impressive cast featuring Jennifer Tilly, Maria Conchita Alonso, Tippi Hedren, Debi Mazar and Ione Skye. Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the Roaring Twenties, this saucy silent film strings together the lives of scandalous Clara Bow (Jennifer Tilly), fiery Mexican film star Lupe Velez (Maria Conchita Alonso) and husband Johnny ’Tarzan’ Weissmuller, ill-fated Virginia Rappe (Ione Skye) and Fatty Arbuckle, Douglas Fairbanks (Maxwell DeMille), Gloria Swanson (Debi Mazar), Ramon Navarro (Phillip Bloch), Josephine Baker (Rolonda Watts), Rudolph Valentino (Alex Monty Canawati) and a host of others. “Return to Babylon“ is the silent film screaming to