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Movie Quote of the Day - Rebecca, 1940 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

cinemafanatic wrote 5 days ago: Maxim de Winter: The woman that was washed up at Edgecombe, the woman that is now buried in the fami … more →

Tags: Movie Quote of the Day, 1940, Alfred Hitchcock, Daphne du Maurier, Joan Fontaine, Joan Harrison, Laurence Olivier, Michael Hogan, Philip MacDonald

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

www.imustseemovie.com wrote 2 weeks ago: Directed by Henry Koster, When bishop Henry Brougham prays for divine guidance in his efforts to rai … more →

Tags: imustseemovie, david niven, cary grant, Sara Haden, henry koster, Elsa Lanchester, gladys cooper, James Gleason, Loretta Young

THE OLD HOKUM THEATER OF WILLIAM AND MARY

Joplin Tornado wrote 3 weeks ago: golden tulips and Goldstein crossing the lyre green grass, all things (even the biblical) come to pa … more →

Tags: Poetry, Virginia, Williamsburg, James City County, William and Mary, the tribe, Theater, Play, Jewish

Robert E. Sherwood

travsd wrote 1 month ago: Not our greatest playwright but definitely our tallest. Sherwood stood 6′ 8″ Today is th … more →

Tags: broadway, hollywood-history, playwrights, Movies, Playwright

Classic Hollywood Birthdays

epclassicmovienight wrote 1 month ago: Anthony Perkins, actor (1932-1992) TCM will be showing several of Anthony Perkin’s films in honor of … more →

Tags: Classic Hollywood Birthdays, Spencer Tracy, The Actress, Rosemary Lane, Anthony Perkins, friendly persuasion, Green Mansions, Tall story, goodbye again

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

www.imustseemovie.com wrote 2 months ago: Directed by William Wyler, Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that th … more →

Tags: imustseemovie, Fredric March, William Wyler, ray collins, Minna Gombell, Cathy O'Donnell, myrna loy, Steve Cochran, Dana Andrews

Stars of Slapstick #38: Madeline Hurlock

travsd wrote 5 months ago: This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Si … more →

Tags: hollywood-history, Comedy, Silent Film, comediennes, Women, Mack Sennett, Madeline Hurlock, Marc Connelly

OBPC #13: Rebecca, 1940

The CineMaverick wrote 8 months ago: Rating: 3½ stars (out of 4) Rebecca (1940):  Dir. Alfred Hitchcock.  Written by: Robert E. Sherwood … more →

Tags: Oscars Best Picture Countdown, Oscars

Rave Review for Genus Envy: Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work

Cambria Press wrote 12 months ago: Cambria Press congratulates Professor Thomas Connolly on the rave review by the Eugene O’Neill … more →

Tags: Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, theatre, Literature, Book Review, Culture, Thomas Connolly, Postmodernist, postcolonial, homi bhabha

Top 10 Quotes from the Algonquin Round Table5 comments

Norb Vonnegut wrote 1 year ago: Doug, great post yesterday about the Algonquin Round Table. I started trolling around the web to fin … more →

Tags: Book Gossip, Algonquin, Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Franklin Pierce Adams, Robert Benchley

New Centerstage Review Up1 comment

lisafindley wrote 1 year ago: I’m glad I got to see a mainstage Strawdog Theatre Company play. They’ve been around for … more →

Tags: Theater, theater, centerstage, Strawdog Theatre Company, Caroline Neff, The Petrified Forest

January 14th, 2012: The Petrified Forest (1936)

professormortis wrote 1 year ago: Cast and Crew:  Archie Mayo (Director); Charles Kenyon and Delmer Daves (Screenplay); Robert E. Sher … more →

Tags: Adaptation, Based on a play, Black and White, Crime, Drama, Hostage Situation, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day

Movie Quote of the Day - The Bishop's Wife, 1947 (dir. Henry Koster)2 comments

cinemafanatic wrote 1 year ago: Dudley: The only people who grow old were born old to begin with. 41.487115 -120.542456 … more →

Tags: Movie Quote of the Day, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, henry koster, The Bishop's Wife, 1947, cary grant, Robert Nathan, Leonardo Bercovici

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

thesquonk wrote 1 year ago: Have you ever heard someone say that a certain actor was “born to play that part?”  Not to discredit … more →

Tags: Movies, '40s Movies, abe lincoln in illinois, raymond massey, Ruth Gordon, gene lockhart, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln

Returning Vets -- A Classic Take

stephanie ogle wrote 1 year ago: New in at Cinema Books: The Best Years of Our Lives BFI Film Classics  by Sarah Kozloff, $15.00 pape … more →

Tags: Books, Gregg Toland, William Wyler, frederic march, Dana Andrews, harold russell

Movie Quote of the Day - The Petrified Forest, 1936 (dir. Archie Mayo)4 comments

cinemafanatic wrote 1 year ago: Alan Squier: The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I’m one of th … more →

Tags: Movie Quote of the Day, Bette Davis, Delmer Daves, The Petrified Forest, 1936, Archie Mayo, charles kenyon, Leslie Howard

Reason 69 why I work3 comments

TBM wrote 2 years ago: To visit the Algonquin, where many writers including  Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Robert E. … more →

Tags: Books, united states, North America, Writers, American Literature, New York City, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Algonquin

The Best Years of Our Lives (Nov. 21, 1946)3 comments

Adam Lounsbery wrote 2 years ago: William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives premiered in New York City on November 21, 1946, a … more →

Tags: , November 1946, December 1946, Drama, World War II, RKO Radio Pictures, Dana Andrews, ray teal, Don Beddoe

Best Years Of Our Lives--Videos

Raymond Thomas Pronk wrote 2 years ago:   The Best Years of Our Lives Trailer   The Best Years of Our Lives — How Much Dissent Was There?   … more →

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