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REVIEW: 'Inglourious Basterds'

Cribbster wrote 3 months ago: Eli Roth, left, and Bratt Pitt in "Inglourious Basterds" Some people are upset with so-cal … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, Adolf Hitler, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, David O Selznick, eli roth, inglourious basterds, Joseph Goebbels, Kill Bill

A Review: Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

reprindle wrote 3 months ago:   Themes And Variations The Tarzan Novels Of Edgar Rice Burroughs #5: Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar … more →

Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Reviews, Tarzan, MGM, R.E. Prindle, Columbian Expo, writing, muslims, Civilization

Bad for Eachother: Gloria Grahame in IN A LONELY PLACE15 comments

rhsmith wrote 3 months ago: Gloria Grahme was born and bred in the glow from the halo of Tinseltown but she’d have to go t … more →

Tags: Classic Films, MGM, Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray, Ginger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart, Oklahoma, RKO, Gloria Hallward

Oscar Winning Writer Budd Schulberg Dead at 95

goremasterfx wrote 3 months ago: Budd Schulberg From TheWrap.com Won 1954 Oscar for “On the Waterfront,” wrote Oscar-winn … more →

Tags: GoreMaster people, goremaster, paramount pictures, Oscar Winning Writer Budd Schulberg Dead at 95, On the Waterfront, Oscar-winner A Face in the Crowd, Writer Budd Schulberg, Academy Award for On the Waterfront, Adeline Jafee-Schulberg

Confession Time10 comments

moirafinnie wrote 4 months ago: I can’t watch Judy Garland. Well, let me amend that a bit. I can’t watch much of the wor … more →

Tags: Actors, Character Actors, Classic Films, directors, Drama, Movie Stars, Music in Film, musicals, Producers

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

MOVIE REVIEW: GENE KELLY -- DRAMATIC ACTOR

garbonza wrote 5 months ago: CROSS OF LORRAINE (MGM, 1943) Aside from the usual wartime flagwavers Hollywood came out with detail … more →

Tags: film, History, Ideology, Black Hand (MGM 1950), Cedric Hardwicke, Cross of Lorraine (MGM 1943), Dore Schary, films of 1943, flagwavers

Movie Review: Night Must Fall (MGM, 1937)

garbonza wrote 6 months ago: It’s been said by at least one film historian that by the end of the Thirties the technique of … more →

Tags: film, Morality, psychology/psychiatry, british actors, Crime / Drama, Dame May Whitty, film noir, Hitchcock, MGM

A rose by any other name ...wouldn't sound nearly as cool2 comments

ChickNamedHermia wrote 6 months ago: I realised I hadn’t posted about a book in a while and since I haven’t read anything new … more →

Tags: Pretty Things, Books, The Time Traveler's Wife, Marisha Pessl, NY Times, Review, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, book, The Secret History

Currently (re) reading: "Me" by Katharine Hepburn

ginavivinetto wrote 7 months ago: This is such an engaging memoir. Ms. Hepburn wrote it in a completely conversational style as if she … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, film, cary grant, EARLY HOLLYWOOD, howard hughes, judy garland, katharine hepburn, Spencer Tracy

On This Date (March 6, 1967) Nelson Eddy

themusicsover.com wrote 9 months ago: Nelson Eddy June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967 Born in Providence, RI, Nelson Eddy was, by his own … more →

Tags: Easy Listening, singer, alban berg, David Bispham, Eduard Lippe, Gilbert & Sullivan, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, William W. Vilonat

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

It Happened Here21 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Robert Young is a Nazi! Robert Stack is a Nazi! Dan Dailey (Jr.) is a Nazi! What the hell is going o … more →

Tags: film, Andy Hardy, claudine west, Dan Dailey, Frank Borzage, frank morgan, Georges Froeschel, Hans Rameau, Hitchcock

AFI FEST...glittering parties & hobnobbing amid the old world charm of the Roosevelt Hotel!2 comments

Julian Ayrs wrote 1 year ago: As I climbed the small winding staircase, and stepped out onto the landing, the view took my breath … more →

Tags: julian ayrs, The Tattler, Hollywood, David Hockney, Julian's Blog, Mary Pickford, AFI Fest, roosevelt hotel, Dennis Lambert

A Review: Part V The Mucker And Marcia Of The Doortstep by Edgar Rice Burroughs

reprindle wrote 1 year ago:   The High Brow And The Low Brow The Mucker And Marcia Of The Doorstep Part V Marcia Explicated by R … more →

Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Reviews, america, MGM, R.E. Prindle, Chicago, Woodrow Wilson, writing, Jews

The Visionary Walter Huston in Gabriel Over the White House (1933) 8 comments

moirafinnie wrote 1 year ago: The Movie: Shaky financial institutions, a do-nothing Congress, a constitution in shreds, combat vet … more →

Tags: Actors, Character Actors, Classic Films, Movie Stars, pre-code, Add new tag, Franchot Tone, Gregory La Cava, Karen Morley

Hello, Moto10 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Great stuff, this vodka. It gets you drunk, did you know that? Brilliant. I had recourse to the bott … more →

Tags: film, Harvey Parry, Joseph Schildkraut, Journey Into Fear, Kiss the Blood off my Hands, Lionel Atwill, mr. moto, Mr Moto's Vacation, Norman Foster

Last words

Nicholas DiGiovanni wrote 1 year ago: This is the latest in a series of essays titled “Man Has Premonition of Own Death.” You know you’re … more →

Tags: book talk, Man Has Premonition of Own Death, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Thomas Edison, Last Words, thoreau, Queen Elizabeth I

Part 9 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 M … more →

Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sigmund Freud, Reviews, Tarzan, Josef Stalin, The Revolution, MGM, Adolf Hitler, Johnny Roselli


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