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The Marx Brothers Photo-Op

ashleighrajala wrote 1 month ago: The Marx Brothers were arguably (and in my opinion) the funniest comedy group to ever appear on a fi … more →

Tags: Photo Ops, A Night In Casablanca, Animal Crackers, At the Circus, Chico, Duck Soup, groucho, harpo, Love Happy

Irving Thalberg And The Fearful Producers' Wilderness

halmasonberg wrote 2 months ago: “The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing ‘ … more →

Tags: film, Favorite Quotes, Books, Different, Mark Vieira, mediocre imitation, Producer, Wilderness

The Original "Boy Wonder"

stephanie ogle wrote 2 months ago: New in at Cinema Books:Irving Thalberg Boy Wonder to Producer Prince by Mark A. Vieira,  $34.95 clot … more →

Tags: Books, Norma Shearer, jean harlow

Teaching Tod Browning's FREAKS5 comments

princesscowboy wrote 2 months ago: This week in my Trash Cinema class my students watched and discussed Tod Browning’s controvers … more →

Tags: film, Trash Cinema, Dwain Esper, frankenstein, freaks, Greta Garbo, Harry Earles, james whale, John Barrymore

Be Wild, Be Adventurous, Be Brave, Be Imaginative

bookgroupmagazine wrote 2 months ago: This week, Book Group Magazine celebrates the adventurous, the brave, the imaginative, and the wild. … more →

Tags: Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, The Call of the Wild, Jack London, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, My Secret History

How good was this Oscar legend? Well, try as he might, even Roger Ebert couldn't catch him acting

George Anthony wrote 5 months ago: “All the real motion picture people have always made family pictures. But the downbeats and th … more →

Tags: Actors, Authors, Books, Gossip, Movies, Show business, ShowBuzz, Stars, Television

Unearthed an old article about the 2008 Oscars

studenttx wrote 6 months ago: So it’s Oscar® time.  I’m actually not sure if icon next to the word Oscar in the previous sentence … more →

Tags: Oscars, Academy Award, Dark Knight, Beautiful Mind, Movie, Awards

January 22, 1930 - Anna Christie

Lo wrote 6 months ago: Garbo Talks. That was the only thing one needed to know about this adaptation of the 1922 Eugene O … more →

Tags: 1930, pre-code, Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler, Clarence Brown, Frances Marion, MGM

Dorothy in Wonderland13 comments

moirafinnie wrote 8 months ago: “Don’t look at me in that tone of voice” ~ Dorothy Parker My attempts to look at w … more →

Tags: Classic Films, Comedy, directors, Drama, Hollywood lifestyles, Producers, SCREENWRITERS, Stereotypes, Suspense - Thriller

Margaret Booth: Cutting Like Poetry7 comments

moirafinnie wrote 9 months ago: Amid our recent hectic news cycles, the quieter news that the month of March is Women’s Histor … more →

Tags: Classic Films, directors, Filmmaking Techniques, Hollywood lifestyles, Icons, Producers, Silent Film, silent films, Women in the Film Industry

USC Film School: New Digs

philipb1961 wrote 9 months ago: Are filmmakers insecure about the place of cinema at the table of the arts? George Lucas, a chief be … more →

Tags: Oscars, film education, George Lucas, usc school of cinematic arts, John Milius, Randal Kleiser, FOX, warner brothers, Steven Spielberg

PART TWO: SHADOWS OF COMPTON1 comment

comedownfromthehillsandmakemybaby wrote 1 year ago: “Where do you go? When Santa Ana winds blow?” Shadows of Compton, Ikky Shivers. THE SECOND COMING OF … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, the day of the locust, Nathanael West, Los Angeles, braindead soundmachine, come down from the hills and make my baby, dogvillasan, Pat Boone, Punk Rock

Last night's double bill

stuartcondy wrote 1 year ago: I have my daughter Lauren for our summer week together and, being the junior cinephile that she is, … more →

Tags: film, Woody Allen, Manhattan, The Marx Brothers, Chico, harpo, Tracy Ullman, Antonioni, blow up

Charles Starrett Bldg. on the Sony Lot3 comments

stevesomething wrote 1 year ago: Many of the buildings on the historic Columbia Studios lot (now owned by Sony Entertainment) are nam … more →

Tags: Charles Starrett Bldg. on the Sony Lot, Durango Kid, Charles Starrett, Frank Capra, cary grant, Harry Cohn

Part 3 Tarzan And The Lion Man: A Review

reprindle wrote 1 year ago:   A Review Themes And Variation The Tarzan Novels Of Edgar Rice Burroughs #18  Tarzan And The Lion M … more →

Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Reviews, Tarzan, Louis B. Mayer, MGM, R.E. Prindle, Doppelganger, writing, H.M. Stanley

Part 1 Tarzan And The Lion Man: A Review

reprindle wrote 1 year ago: A Review Themes And Variations The Tarzan Novels Of Edgar Rice Burroughs #18 Tarzan And The Lion Man … more →

Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Reviews, Tarzan, Louis B. Mayer, MGM, R.E. Prindle, writing, emasculation, ERBzine

Thalberg Building At Xmas

alisoninconstantiphotography wrote 1 year ago: This Art Deco building built in 1938 was dedicated to Irving Thalberg – The Boy Wonder of Holl … more →

Tags: Los Angeles, puck90, Architecture, Photo, Landmarks, Culver City, Alison Inconstanti photography, Holidays, Art Deco

Thalberg's Hollywood

stephanie ogle wrote 1 year ago: New in at Cinema Books Hollywood Dreams Made Real Irving Thalberg and the Rise of M-G-M by Mark A. V … more →

Tags: Books, hollywood studio

Zeppo Marx - the bridge between order and anarchy3 comments

vodkasoda wrote 1 year ago: Zeppo Marx as Horatio Jamison in the 1930 Marx Brothers Film Animal Crackers. As usual, Zeppo plays … more →

Tags: Culture, film, History and Archaeology, A Night at the Opera, Animal Crackers, black and white movies, Chico Marx, Comedy, Film History


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