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The Unconquered shows unended war

Linda Aragoni wrote 2 months ago: Natural Cotton In The Unconquered, Ben Ames Williams picks up the story of the South during the mid- … more →

Tags: Historical, Romance, 1953 Bestselling Novels, Civil War, Reconstruction, American History, New Orleans, Louisiana, Freedman's Bureau

Crucible by Ben Ames Williams (Popular Library 113 - 1946)

niteowljr wrote 6 months ago: Crucible by Ben Ames Williams For almost thirty years Ellen and Arthur Sentry had lived a gracious a … more →

Tags: Paperbacks, Mystery, Suspense & Noir, popular library,

Books, Documentaries, Reviews: COME SPRING1 comment

louisaenright wrote 9 months ago: Books, Documentaries, Reviews:  July 30, 2012 COME SPRING by Ben Ames Williams Friend Gail Nicholson … more →

Tags: Books, Documentaries, Reviews, Maine, union, come spring, St. Georges River

Movie Quote of the Day - Leave Her To Heaven. 1945 (dir. John M. Stahl)1 comment

cinemafanatic wrote 1 year ago: Richard Harland: You killed him. You let Danny drown, didn’t you? Didn’t you?! Ellen Ber … more →

Tags: Movie Quote of the Day, jo swerling, Leave Her To Heaven. 1945, Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, John M. Stahl

Small Town Girl (1936)18 comments

Judy wrote 2 years ago: I saw in the New Year with yet another 1930s William Wellman movie which isn’t available on DV … more →

Tags: 1930s, William A. Wellman, Fredric March, James Stewart, MGM, Janet Gaynor, robert taylor, a Star is born, Binnie Barnes

The Strange Woman (Oct. 25, 1946)1 comment

Adam Lounsbery wrote 2 years ago: Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Strange Woman, directed with uncredited assistance from Douglas Sirk, is … more →

Tags: , October 1946, george sanders, Dennis Hoey, Drama, Edgar G. Ulmer, United Artists, ray teal, Hillary Brooke

Today's Fabulous Image in Cinema: Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven2 comments

benjamin wrote 2 years ago: I’m well aware that Alfred Newman’s booming score ads a certain melodramatic je ne sais … more →

Tags: Movies, Images, Classic Hollywood, Melodrama, Gene Tierney, Leave Her to Heaven, Technicolor, film noir, Alfred Newman

Leave Her to Heaven (Dec. 19, 1945)1 comment

Adam Lounsbery wrote 3 years ago: Can there be such a thing as a film noir in color? I don’t think there can, but the term noir … more →

Tags: 1945, December 1945, 18th Academy Awards, 20th Century Fox, Alfred Newman, Chill Wills, Cornel Wilde, Darryl F. Zanuck, Darryl Hickman

"The Kenneth Roberts Reader" & Ben Ames Williams

Danny wrote 4 years ago: In a recent post regarding The Kenneth Roberts Reader, I posed the question about why Ben Ames Willi … more →

Tags: The Kenneth Roberts Reader, Jack Bales, The Kenneth Roberts Reader, Town's End Books, The Happy End, booth tarkington

"The Kenneth Roberts Reader": Ben Ames Williams Introduction

Danny wrote 4 years ago: As stated in an earlier post (“The Kenneth Roberts Reader“), I wanted to find out why Be … more →

Tags: The Kenneth Roberts Reader, Kenneth Roberts, The Kenneth Roberts Reader, Answers.com

"The Kenneth Roberts Reader"1 comment

Danny wrote 4 years ago: 1945 ed. of The Reader  I’ve recently picked up The Kenneth Roberts Reader for some light read … more →

Tags: The Kenneth Roberts Reader, The Kenneth Roberts Reader

Kenneth Roberts - According to Ben Ames Williams

Danny wrote 4 years ago: For Ken, who expects from the historian a remote impartiality, himself always has a thesis to demons … more →

Tags: Kenneth Roberts the Man, Kenneth Roberts, The Kenneth Roberts Reader

House Divided is Good — and Long

Linda Aragoni wrote 5 years ago: House Divided deserves to be dusted off and reread. Ben Ames Williams gives us believable characters … more →

Tags: Historical, 1947 Bestselling Novels, My Top Pics, War, Civil War, Virginia, Confederacy


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