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Joe Flynn - A Frustrated Fellow
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 5, 2020
Aurora, author of the blog Once Upon a Screen, is hosting the 9th annual What a Character! Blogathon this weekend along with Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled and Paula of Paula's Cinema Club. This event celebrates the many many great character actors that have appeared in films since movie-making be read more
Marcel Dalio: What a (French) Character!
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Dec 4, 2020
This is my entry for the annual What a Character! blogathon hosted by Paula at Paula's Cinema Club, Aurora of Once Upon a Screen and Kellee at Outspoken & Freckled. ~I was watching
Josef von Sternberg’s flamboyantly decadent noir The Shanghai Gesture
(1941) a while ago. Taking i read more
What a Character! blogathon: Harry Cording
Caftan Woman Posted by on Dec 4, 2020
It is the time of year we all look forward to when Paula's Cinema Club, Once Upon a Screen, and Outspoken and Freckled host their "What a Character!" Blogathon. This year, December 5th is the big day. Harry Cording1891-1954Above is Harry Cording as he was mostly seen throughout his 27 read more
A rotating session
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 4, 2020
Plenty of people love this color cover portrait of Carole Lombard, from the June 1938 issue of Hollywood magazine...since it's simply so, well, unusual. Today, someone who follows me at the Twitter site "It's the pictures that got small" posted it. A comment came from "Forever Louise Brooks" -- "Tha read more
Cary Grant Comes Home for the Weekend Festival: Making My First Video Essay and Chatting on a Panel with Creators
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 1, 2020
One of the best things I've done since the pandemic has changed life so dramatically was to learn how to make a video essay. I did it for the Cary Grant Comes Home for the Weekend Festival, a wonderful event that usually takes place in the actor's hometown of Bristol, UK, but was online for th read more
A p1202 rarity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 30, 2020
Meet p1202-1277, one of Carole Lombard's rarer portraits in the Paramount series. It's from 1935 or '36, and shows the star in a mink stole:The rear of the photo provides information, too, but it's of a somewhat jarring nature:It's stamped with a date of June 2, 1944, two years after Lombard's death read more
“Hollywood is a Four Letter Town” Book Giveaway (Dec)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Nov 29, 2020
“Hollywood is a Four Letter Town”We have FIVE Books to Give Away this month! “Frank and Spicy!” – The New York Times It’s time for our next book giveaway contest! CMH will be giving away FIVE COPIES of Hollywood is a Four Letter Town, by syndicated columnist James read more
CHESLEY BONESTELL: A BRUSH WITH THE FUTURE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 27, 2020
Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) was a multifaceted and multi-talented individual. In his long life he was an illustrator, architect, matte painter, and a renowned graphic futurist. His drawings and conceptions of the solar system still inspire those working in the field of space exploration toda read more
A happy Thanksgiving, plus a cornbread recipe from the Veep-elect
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 26, 2020
We've run this Thanksgiving-themed Carole Lombard photo before, but since it combines several Hollywood notables, it's worth showing again.For Thanksgiving 1936, Carole and Clark Gable had a holiday dinner at the 120-acre Marwyck Ranch in Northridge, co-owned by Barbara Stanwyck and Marion Marx. Pic read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 24: D.O.A. (1949)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 24, 2020
Today’s YouTube pick is one of noir’s best-known offerings: D.O.A. (1949). It’s got a perfect noir premise, a perfect noir opening, a perfect noir end, and in between, a characteristically labryrinthine noir plot. D.O.A. also serves up a great cast that includes Edmond O’Brien, Luther Adler read more
Book Review: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 23, 2020
In 2017, Del Rey published STAR WARS--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, a book that celebrated the 40th anniversary of the film by featuring 40 stories that looked at the story from a different perspective. Now THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK gets the same treatment. 40 stories by 40 writers, in roughly t read more
A 'Look' at "They Knew What They Wanted"
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 17, 2020
"They Knew What They Wanted" was Carole Lombard's second film with Charles Laughton, but it was a far cry from their late 1933 Paramount potboiler "White Woman." This was made for RKO in 1940, an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play whose racy subject matter (waitress falls for yardhand whom read more
SCREENPLAY BY: A. I. Bezzerides
The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on Nov 12, 2020
SCREENPLAY BY: A. I. Bezzerides
On November 12, 2020 By CarolIn Uncategorized
The coolest named screenwriter of them all is our SCREENPLAY BY star for Noirvember! Born in Samsun, Turkey in 1908, Albert Isaac Bezzerides emigrated with his family to the read more
It’s a Wonderful Life: The Illustrated Holiday Classic – Book Giveaway (now thru Dec 12)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Nov 8, 2020
It’s a Wonderful Life: The Illustrated Holiday ClassicWe have 10 Books to Giveaway Now through Dec 12!
Re-live the beloved holiday classic with thislavishly illustrated storybook the entire family can share
We are delighted to announce our next giveaway — just in time fo read more
Another Columbia gem, and a Chuck Lorre interview
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 6, 2020
Nice-looking Carole Lombard portrait, isn't it? This still is from Columbia Pictures, but since the rear of the photo is blank I have no idea which of her five films these it's meant to promote. Doesn't matter, though -- it's quite stunning.It's up for auction at eBay; as of this writing, one bid ha read more
'This Was Hollywood': A friend of mine books some movie history
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 4, 2020
What does Carole Lombard have in common with the cat seen just below? Both appeared in the 1928 Mack Sennett comedy short "Run, Girl, Run." The feline, named Puzzums, was a very popular film performer in the day -- we profiled it in a February 2019 entry, https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/979753 read more
On Election Eve, a greeting (card) from Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 2, 2020
Have you voted yet? Your last chance is tomorrow; please do so. I live in California, one of the 44 states where you could vote ahead of Election Day, and did so on Friday in Inglewood -- some miles from my residence, but still in Los Angeles County, which has a countywide polling system. Why did I read more
A Hammer Duo: Twins of Evil and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 31, 2020
Neither Collinson twin looks evil here.In 1970, Hammer Films launched the Karnstein trilogy, which was loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella Carmilla about a female vampire. The first two movies, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Lust for a Vampire (1971), were modestly successful efforts chi read more
Having a Ball with the Phantasm Sequels
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 29, 2020
It’s
not an exaggeration to state there was nothing else like the original Phantasm when it was unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences in 1979. Don Coscarelli’s low-budget
wonder employed an almost indescribable mixture of genres and tones, all under
the overarching theme of th read more
'Stand Tall!' takes a (virtual) giant step
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 25, 2020
Carole Lombard could vouch for the power of a good script (she's seen holding one, for 1934's "Now And Forever," in Paramount portrait p1202-812). While neither of my two completed feature screenplays is close to being produced yet, one of them made a major advancement Saturday."Stand Tall!", my rom read more