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Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in “Love Affair”
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on Feb 6, 2024
Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in “Love Affair”
Love Affair (1939) is the original romance directed by
Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth) starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.French painter Michel Marnet (Boyer) and American
singer Terry McKay (Dunne) meet aboard a transatlantic oc read more
Irene Dubrovna in "Cat People" (1942)
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 10, 2023
The Classic Movie Blog Association is hosting the Blogathon and the Beast blog event this week. This theme gives us bloggers a chance to write about a film character who has a beast within themselves. All of us have a sleeping beast within who, hopefully, never awakens in our lifetime. As the o read more
Day 4 of Noirvember: Irene Neves in Sudden Fear (1952)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2021
Today’s Noirvember post shines the spotlight on one bad-ass sister, Irene Neves in Sudden Fear (1952). WHAT’S SUDDEN FEAR ABOUT? Successful playwright and San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson (Joan Crawford) meets actor Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) and marries him after a whirlwind romance. Their marri read more
Classic Movie Travels: Vernon & Irene Castle
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annette Bochenek on Jul 1, 2021
Classic Movie Travels: Vernon & Irene Castle Vernon & Irene Castle Long before Fred and Ginger, Vernon and Irene Castle were lauded as an exceptionally talented dancing duo. Though a tragedy ended their partnership, their influence as dancers as well as Irene’s activism continues to read more
Let Irene and Hazel come to your coronavirus rescue
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 4, 2020
If Irene Bullock and Hazel Flagg had somehow crossed paths in a cinematic Manhattan of the mid-1930s, what might have they said to each other, aside from "You look like someone I know quite well"? It's open for conjecture, but what isn't is that both serve a public benefit more than 80 years later.T read more
book: The Courilof Affair (1933; trans 2008 Sandra Smith) by Irène Némirovsky
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Sep 15, 2019
An absorbing political novel by the author whose Fire in the Blood I so much enjoyed a couple of months ago. The tale is told in extended flashback toward the end of his life by Léon M (aka Marcel Legrand), who was part of the struggle against Tsarist tyranny in the years before the Russian Revolu read more
book: Fire in the Blood (trans 2007 Sandra Smith) by Irène Némirovsky
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 19, 2019
In 1942, Ukrainian immigrée Irène Némirovsky was shipped off from her home in France to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus, aged 39; a few months later her husband met a similar fate, being transported to Auschwitz to be murdered by the spiritual ancestors of the MAGA crew. By the time of her deat read more
Irene Sharaff’s Costumes for The King and I
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Oct 30, 2016
I had a lot of pleasure when I wrote about Cecil Beaton’s costumes for My Fair Lady for The 31 Days of Oscars Blogathons (the crafts). So, when Christina Wenher and Into the Writer Lea announced their Characters in Costume Blogfest, I thought it was a most appealing idea. I obviously wanted read more
Irene Bullock, lauded from the right
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 19, 2015
She's one of comedy's all-time heroines, among the most beloved of cinematic characters. But Carole Lombard's Irene Bullock won praise recently from an unexpected source -- the far-right news site Newsmax.I try not to be overly political at Carole & Co., for that really isn't what this site is all a read more
Irene Bullock, lauded from the right
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on May 19, 2015
She's one of comedy's all-time heroines, among the most beloved of cinematic characters. But Carole Lombard's Irene Bullock won praise recently from an unexpected source -- the far-right news site Newsmax.I try not to be overly political at Carole & Co., for that really isn't what this site is all a read more
The Cinemascope Blogathon: Move Over Darling (and Cary, Irene, Marilyn, Dean and you, too, Enoch Arden)
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Mar 13, 2015
While 1963’s “Move Over Darling” can never top
it’s inspiration source (1940‘s “My Favorite Wife” with the dynamic duo of Cary
Grant and Irene Dunne), it stands on its own as a delightful piece of movie
fluff. Good fluff isn’t easy. Fluff has to be lig read more
Day 28 of Noirvember: Dames Off the Beaten Path — Irene Neves in Sudden Fear (1952)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 28, 2014
Everybody knows about those larger-than-life femme fatales in those famous, blockbuster noirs: dames like Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity. Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past. Kitty Collins in The Killers. Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sure, we’re all familiar with these twisted read more
Cinema Connection--Designs of Irene (Lentz) Live Again at Los Angeles Fashion Week
GlamAmor Posted by on Mar 17, 2013
Last weekend I was invited to the debut fashion show of the newly relaunched House of Irene. For those of us who love classic cinema, this was incredible news. After all, Irene was a name I never expected to hear during Los Angeles Fashion Week.
When it comes to costume designe read more
Irene Bullock: Mother of all MPDGs?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 9, 2013
OK, so you probably know that Irene Bullock is the character Carole Lombard portrayed in "My Man Godfrey," but we don't see her as a mother in the movie (imagine a "Godfrey" sequel where she actually had children!). And what the heck is an "MPDG"?Well, it's an acronym for "Manic Pixie Dream Girl," a read more
The Story Of The Blackhawks And Irene Castle
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day Jr. on Jan 14, 2013
The excuse for this post is the beginning (finally) of the NHL season. But what possible connection could my favorite hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks, have with classic Hollywood cinema?
The Blackhawks were founded in 1926 by Major Frederic McLaughlin, a coffee tycoon. McLaughlin serv read more
The Story Of The Blackhawks And Irene Castle
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day Jr. on Jan 14, 2013
The excuse for this post is the beginning (finally) of the NHL season. But what possible connection could my favorite hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks, have with classic Hollywood cinema?
The Blackhawks were founded in 1926 by Major Frederic McLaughlin, a coffee tycoon. McLaughlin serv read more
Irene Goes Wild (a little)
Movie Star Makeover Posted by Kay Noske on Aug 19, 2012
I first met Irene Dunne in one of my father’s stories. You have to know, first, that my father was a great storyteller—and because he was the night manager at RKO Keith’s in Washington DC in the 1930-40s, he told some humdingers. I never tired of him recounting how, at the end of Penny Serenade, read more
Rita Hayworth in AFFECTIONATELY YOURS (1941) is wonderful as a girl named Irene..
All Good Things Posted by monty on Jul 23, 2012
Reporter Ricky Mayberry (Dennis Morgan) is married to Sue (Merle Oberon) but is a ladies man, with a girl in every port. At the beginning of the film Ricky is covering a story in Libson and romancing rival reporter Irene Malcolm (a gorgeous Rita Hayworth) when he gets a telegram that Sue has d read more