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Happy Christmas4 comments

Judy wrote 2 days ago: Just to wish everyone who visits my blog a happy and restful break over the holidays. Here are a cou … more →

Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Classic Movie, Anatole Litvak, eleanor parker, Errol Flynn, John Garfield

Bette Davis meet Lynn Rosetto Kasper meet Uncle Edwin

Harold Knight wrote 6 days ago: I’m pretty ordinary.  My TLE (if that’s what it is—it’s so nebulous I’m never quite sure that’s what … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, epilepsy, Obsession, writing, Seizure, abiogenesis, Novel, fluorescent lights

Christmas Crackers, Hollywood-style

alisonkerr wrote 1 week ago: Strangely for something with as much sentimental potential as Christmas, there is only a handful of … more →

Tags: Movies, A Christmas Carol, Alastair Sim, Alexander Woollcott, Ann Sheridan, barbara stanwyck, Billie Burke, Billy Wilder, cary grant

Knock on Wood10 comments

moirafinnie wrote 1 week ago: “People say I’m a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for tha … more →

Tags: Actors, Character Actors, Classic Films, directors, Drama, Icons, Method Acting, Stereotypes, The British in Hollywood

Wednesday Wordplay – Cher before Bette Davis

Scotty Zacher wrote 1 week ago: Inspirational Quotes A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.    … more →

Tags: Wednesday Wordplay, Leon Tec, Cher, Tina Turner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jean Paul Sartre, Julia Louise Woodruff, John Updike, The Lonely Life

Mascara Painting

illusworld08 wrote 3 weeks ago: MASCARA Speed Painting Bette Davis Eyes … more →

Tags: Online Media, Speed Painting, mascara art

Movie Time! Holiday picks...

demurr wrote 3 weeks ago: You might have noticed that I love movies. The holidays have some true classics that I love to see e … more →

Tags: Holiday, Ben Affleck, Denis Leary, Glenn Ford, Movies

Chapter Six-An Audition and an Unexpected Visit

elphboy31 wrote 3 weeks ago: As it turned out, Aunt Somebody agreed (reluctantly) to do Barry’s production of Passing in the Nigh … more →

Tags: Work in progress, actress, Adult Fiction, Alcoholism, All About Eve, Bad Christians, Childrens Fiction, Coming of Age, Community Theatre

WATCH ON THE RHINE (Herman Shumlin, 1943)

grunes wrote 4 weeks ago: Mostly relying on Lillian Hellman’s expanded stage melodrama and some terrific performances, Watch o … more →

Tags: Formal Capsule Film Comments

Wednesday Wordplay: from Bette Davis to Oscar Wilde

Scotty Zacher wrote 1 month ago: Inspirational Quotes This became a credo of mine…attempt the impossible in order to improve yo … more →

Tags: Wednesday Wordplay, Arthur Rubinstein, Bob Moawad, Dr. David M. Burns, elizabeth aston, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Man Chair, Oscar Wilde, Sean O'Faolain

Top 100 of the 1930s: 90-862 comments

obscureclassics wrote 1 month ago: 090. Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930) MGM kept Greta Garbo in silent films longer than any other … more →

Tags: essays, Lists, Frank Borzage, Ginger Rogers, Kay Francis, living on velvet, george brent, Clarence Brown, ruth chatterton

Great Scenes... All About Eve2 comments

Justin Michaels wrote 1 month ago: She’ll tease you. She’ll unease you. All the better just to please you. She’s prec … more →

Tags: Great scenes, All About Eve, Marilyn Monroe, Movies

Chapter 2 - Junior High, a nightmare1 comment

kensofronski wrote 1 month ago: Chapter 2 – Junior High, a nightmare I don’t remember if my little molestation  incident … more →

Tags: Joan Crawford, judy garland, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, fats domino, a Star is born, Over the Rainbow

Outing Hollywood

stephanie ogle wrote 1 month ago: New in at Cinema Books: In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer’s Memoir by Charles Higham, $29.9 … more →

Tags: Books, gay hollywood, cary grant, walt disney

But you are a cripple, Blanche...

cockroach1 wrote 1 month ago: But you are a cripple, Blanche... For the first time in three weeks, I have picked up my stick (lent … more →

Tags: Lavapiés, Madrid, GP, X-Ray, madrid metro, soL, whatever happened to baby jane, Joan Crawford, hosital

I Love The Music

Village Green Machine wrote 1 month ago: I Love The Music OK I will write this blog, was not going to attempt it tonight as I rather feel my … more →

Tags: Music, bands, Blogging, Cliff Richard, Jacobites, Shindig! magazine, Syd Barrett, The Anniversary

Mr Skeffington (1944)10 comments

Judy wrote 1 month ago: I wanted to see Mr Skeffington because it stars Bette Davis, who is one of my favourite actresses. H … more →

Tags: 1940s, Classic Movie, Claude Rains, Elizabeth von Arnim, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Vincent Sherman, warner brothers

Chapter Five-Two Phone Calls

elphboy31 wrote 1 month ago: At a little past noon, Aunt Somebody breezed into the kitchen accompanied by a short, plump lady in … more →

Tags: Work in progress, actress, Adult Fiction, Alcoholism, All About Eve, Bad Christians, Childrens Fiction, Coming of Age, Community Theatre

Chapter Four-The Great Lady, At Last

elphboy31 wrote 1 month ago: “…Except when I was first at Zenith, they were bleaching my hair every week, and I put a stop to tha … more →

Tags: Work in progress, actress, Adult Fiction, Alcoholism, All About Eve, Bad Christians, Childrens Fiction, Coming of Age, Community Theatre


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