7th Heaven

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7th Heaven

With an Introduction and Live Musical Accompaniment by Ben Model

1927. 110 m. Frank Borzage. Museum of Modern Art. US. Silent with English Intertitles with subtitles. Rated NR.

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Casting Fox contract player Janet Gaynor as a Parisian street urchin and newcomer Charles Farrell as the sanitation worker who loves her, director Frank Borzage created one of the great screen couples, an alliance that would continue through 11 more films. 7th Heaven stands as Borzage’s strongest expression of the transcendent power of romantic love, evoking emotions of such strength and purity that only the dream world of silent film could contain them. At the first Academy Awards ceremony, the film won Oscars for Gaynor (Best Actress), Borzage (Best Director) and Benjamin Glazer (Best Adapted Screenplay).

This presentation comes from a new digital restoration funded by Twentieth Century Fox and based on the only surviving nitrate print from MoMA’s collection (Musuem of Modern Art).

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"Based on a long-running stage success and wildly popular upon its first release, Seventh Heaven is probably Frank Borzage's most famous film, the one where all his principles of mystical romance come together most distinctively."
Dan Callahan, Slant Magazine

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Monday, May. 19 2025, 7:00

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Ben Model is one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists, performing on both piano and theatre organ. For more than 40 years, he has created and performed several hundred live scores for silent films on piano and theatre organ. Ben is a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theatre. His recorded scores can be heard on numerous DVD/Blu-Ray releases from Kino Lorber, Milestone and his own label Undercrank Productions, as well as on Turner Classic Movies. Ben’s Undercrank Productions has released many rare undiscovered gems of the silent era, including films starring Marcel Perez, Alice Howell, Baby Peggy and Marion Davies that have been out of circulation since the 1920s, as part of a co-branding arrangement with the Library of Congress. Ben is a regular accompanist at classic film festivals around the U.S.A. and internationally, and he performs at universities, museums and historic theaters. He is also the producer and co-founder of The Silent Clowns Film Series, now celebrating it its 26th season in NYC.

This film is part of the Restored and Rediscovered: A Film Preservation Festival 2025 series.