By Fritzi Kramer on June 6, 2014 in Blog, GIF, Humor Phyllis Haver was the silver screen’s first Roxie Hart and does she ever own the part! The 1927 version of Chicago is a mad bit of twenties wildness and Miss Haver’s performance is a huge part of what makes it a success. The plot, if read more
By Fritzi Kramer on May 21, 2014 in Blog, GIF, Humor Disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that the “always get their man” slogan is more Hollywood than reality but I beg the indulgence of my Canadian readers in this instance. Upstream is one of the lost movies that was recovered during a 2010 ex read more
There's nothing like a ten-hour flight to plow through a good book, and that's exactly what I did yesterday, flying back from Vienna.
Remarkably, Stephen Michael Shearer's Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star is the first major biography of Swanson, or at least the first since her own (ghost read more
There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Of the many aspects of the films of Douglas Sirk’s that define his signature there’s obviously the colourful visuals, his use of few means, melodramas, plot lines scratching just enough the boundaries of moral conservatism in the Americ read more
Whenever I look for hair inspiration, Milla Jovovich never disappoints. She is a chameleon who is capable of capturing any era's style, but also always knows how to keep it modern rather than retro. This ranges from the short flapper looks (complete with bejeweled headbands) of the 1920s read more
Joan Bennett: Almost Scarlett O'Hara, But Always a Movie Star
Joan Bennett (1910-1990) had a long career in Hollywood. Starting out as a movie ingenue in the silent era, Bennett made the transition to sound without missing a beat. A scandal in the early 1950s put an abrupt end to her movie care read more
