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More Hollywood Haiku
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 24, 2009
The gathered suspectstremble 'neath Inspector's glare"You are murderer" read more
Classic Hollywood Screen Tests, Part II
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 4, 2009
Here’s the follow-up to my collection of great screen tests from last week. This time, I’m posting tests with three of the most legendary Hollywood personalities: James Dean, Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe.
James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood have great loose energy together in thi read more
Classic Hollywood Screen Tests, Part I
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 27, 2009
This great clip from a James Dean and Paul Newman screen test that Nicole posted on Classic Hollywood Nerd last week inspired me to search for more interesting tests from classic Hollywood. Here are some of my favorites:I’ve seen this Audrey Hepburn test for Roman Holiday (1953) dozens of time read more
From Montreal to Hollywood: Norma Shearer's Story
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Google profile on Mar 29, 2009
About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Edith Norma Shearer was born August 11, 1900 or 1902 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It's unclear which year. Norma came from a privileged Scottish family. Her father Andrew Shearer owned his read more
More Broadway to Hollywood Trivia
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Mar 11, 2009
Victor Moore1876 - 1962Victor Moore was a stage and screen star with a lengthy and successful Broadway career. Movie fans recall him best as Fred Astaire's pal in Swing Time. Among his original characterizations was the role of Moonface in Cole Porter's Anything Goes which ran on Broadway for 420 read more
Hollywood Legend
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 8, 2009
Rumor has it that by late '38, Louis B. Mayer was so eager to get the Widow Thalberg out of Marie Antoinette that he tested every single actress on the lot. Sadly, Marjorie Main's supposedly heartbreaking reel has disappeared, and all that remains of Margaret O'Brien's is this haunting still. Yeah read more
Hollywood at Play
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 24, 2009
'Round about 70 years, Edgar Bergen - pioneer and, really, sole practitioner of the very odd profession of radio ventriloquist - gave a party. The theme? The Gay '90s. It looks like it was great, if slightly quirky, fun. The host, of course, entertained, in the company of a blackfaced Charlie McCart read more
More Broadway to Hollywood trivia
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jan 13, 2009
Horace "Stephen" McNally1913 - 1994Former attorney Horace McNally decided to become an actor in the late 30s and toiled in Hollywood under his given name in a number of small roles in B pictures roles and the Broadway stage. A Broadway hit was Elmer Harris' Johnny Belinda in which he played the rol read more
Broadway to Hollywood Trivia
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 20, 2008
Did you know that Eduardo Ciannelli (1889 - 1969) played "Diamond Louis" in the 1928 Broadway production of The Front Page?Did you further know that Abner Biberman (1909 - 1977) played "Diamond Louis" in the 1940 film version of The Front Page, Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday? And did you also know th read more
Queen Norma Shearer ~ Hollywood Revue of 1929
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Google profile on Oct 20, 2008
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I finally sat down and watched The Hollywood Revue of 1929 all the way through! And by golly I enjoyed every minute of it. Well, all the minutes in between Conrad Nagel's presentations, be read more
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume II ~ It's so Pretty!
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Google profile on Mar 29, 2008
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It's so pretty! And it's mine, all mine! It comes with 5, count 'em 5 films plus a documentary. What a great deal and what a beautiful package. My picture doesn't do it justice. Go out and read more
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Google profile on Mar 23, 2008
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So on Friday I broke down and went ahead and purchased the TCM Archives Boxed Set "The Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2". I was going to buy it eventually but had just been renting read more
The Hollywood Tirade
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 9, 2007
In real life, when you lose your temper, you've only given up something you can't get back. In the movies, losing your temper can be the key to stardom, accolades and audience sympathy. These three women unleashed some of the best tirades of classic Hollywood:The Miracle Woman (1931), Barbara Stanwy read more
Letters from Hollywood
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
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Letters from Hollywood
Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking
by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall
foreword by Peter Bogdanovich
ABRAMS Books
352 pages
Hardcover ISBN: 9781419738098
September 2019
Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells
Letters from Hollywood is truly read more
TCM & Starline Movie Locations Tour - Hollywood
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Cue the Gilligan’s Island theme song! We’re going on... a three hour tour... a three hour tour.
On the morning before the TCM festival, members of the media hopped on board the TCM & Starline bus for a three hour tour of Hollywood and Los Angeles. We saw roughly 50 movie locations a read more
Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Warren William
Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood
by John Stangeland
February 2011
212 pages
9780786448784
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
In the complete portrait of Warren William there is no legacy, only a career. What we are doing when we see him on screen is simply watching read more
My First Day in Hollywood in Pictures
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Today I got to spend the day in Hollywood. This is the very first time I have visited Hollywood and it was a real treat. First stop was our hotel. It's a wonderful little hotel filled with lots of great Hollywood memorabilia. (thank you to Jill of Sittin' on a Backyard Fence for recommending this ho read more
Designing Hollywood: Studio Wardrobe in the Golden Age by Christian Esquevin
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Designing HollywoodStudio Wardrobe in the Golden Ageby Christian EsquevinHardcover ISBN: 9780813197913August 2023University Press of Kentucky 256 pagesAmazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's"Modern glamour was born in Hollywood, where the combination of beautiful stars dresse read more
Hollywood Tiki: Film in the Era of the Pineapple Cocktail
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Hollywood TikiFilm in the Era of the Pineapple Cocktailby Adam Foshko and Jason HendersonThe History PressPaperback ISBN: 9781467149907208 pagesAugust 2022Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's“Tiki Culture was never about a real place but about the escape to imaginary places—n read more
The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
The First King of Hollywood:
The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
by Tracey Goessel
560 pages
October 2015
Chicago Review Press
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Powells
Your local Indie
"His story is also the story of the birth of an industry -- the transition of the movie business from a nickel novelty to read more