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You Can’t Take It With You (1938): Quality Capra
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 16, 2020
This is my post in The 120 “Screwball” Years of Jean Arthur Blogathon put on by the Wonderful World of Cinema! Mr. Kirby (Edward Arnold), or A.P. as his deferential colleagues call him, is a business magnate with innumerable successful endeavors. He has the full pockets to go along with a career read more
A five-star review for a book that's earned it
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 1, 2020
Olympia Kiriakou's book "Becoming Carole Lombard" is the literary equivalent of a Maserati you see passing a luxury import automotive showroom in the heart of Beverly Hills -- you recognize how good it is, but chances are it's likely out of your league.As we've stated before,"Becoming" takes the Lom read more
Just Don’t Do It
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Aug 23, 2020
It
seems as if independent filmmakers/distributors of the 1970s and early ‘80s were
obsessed with including “Don’t” in their movie titles. But wait a minute… This
wasn’t simply a cheap way of riding the exploitation bandwagon, but a public
service to warn us about read more
Play ball! (Or a 2020 approximation of it)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 23, 2020
Would Carole Lombard -- an avid baseball fan -- be thrilled Opening Day is today, nearly four months behind schedule? Perhaps. But I sense that like me, she'd also say fine, but we have bigger figurative fish to fry. Or something to that effect.Nearly nine months ago, Opening Day 2020 was something read more
Book Review: Martin Turnbull's "The Heart of the Lion": The Room Where it (Really) Happened
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Jun 28, 2020
Hey movie lover - haven't you often heard behind the scenes conversations in your head? You know, the ones between Clark Gable and Carole Lombard? Or Garbo and Gilbert? Or maybe, just maybe, Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer? Or better yet, all those mop up men at the Harlow home discussing ho read more
Monsters and Matinees: The ‘It’ Factor of Classic Horror Titles
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on Jun 13, 2020
It. Two simple letters that form the most innocuous of words, one that we use hundreds of times a day without thinking. And that’s the point of the word that is defined as “easily identified.” Not so in the world of classic horror films where “it” is used as a way to not identity read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e08 – It Had to Be You
The Stop Button Posted by on May 23, 2020
So, funny thing about this season. The cops seem to have forgotten anyone hit Christina Applegate’s husband with a car and drove away. Like. When Diana Maria Riva is recapping her involvement with Applegate and Linda Cardellini for Natalie Morales? Doesn’t come up. It’s very strange. Though, I read more
Ziegfeld Girl (1941): See It For The Stars
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 17, 2020
Thank you HOLLYWOOD GENES for having me in the Ziegfeld Blogathon! Few would claim Ziegfeld Girl to be anything close to a landmark masterpiece, but it’s got star power in spades thanks to MGMs robust lineup during the war years and that alone, followed up with a few spunky numbers, backstage read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e07 – I Can Handle It
The Stop Button Posted by on May 10, 2020
In a somewhat incredible turn, the episode opens with Christina Applegate and investigator—I guess—Brandon Scott going to cop Diana Maria Riva and telling her about the evidence they found. Riva doesn’t seem to care much about the evidence and seems ready to throw it away; it’s incredible Applegate read more
FAVOURITE MOVIES: It Always Rains on Sunday, 1947
Caftan Woman Posted by on May 8, 2020
Arthur La Bern's 1945 debut novel It Always Rains on Sunday shone a realistic spotlight on the East London the journalist knew so well from his upbringing. The 1947 film from Ealing Studios written and directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets) and Angus MacPhail (The Captive Heart) would p read more
A Lombard flick...at a drive-in? It happened in her lifetime
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 4, 2020
This photo of Carole Lombard with her car was taken by the esteemed Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1938. And the year after this, she could have taken that auto of hers, driven not far from her new Encino ranch home, and done something more culturally associated with future generations.For years, I've wonder read more
The short story that inspired 'But Is It Love?'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 11, 2020
What might have been...It's a cruel irony of classic Hollywood that the actress and actor most identified with screwball comedy, Carole Lombard and Cary Grant, never made one together. (Apologies to William Powell fans, although he's won belated acclaim in recent years for his aplomb in the genre.)B read more
'Supernatural' on Blu-ray: That's scary, kiddies (or is it?)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 21, 2020
It's no secret that "Supernatural," released in spring 1933, is a film Carole Lombard really didn't want to make. Her lone foray into horror, Carole probably feared if the film was a hit, Paramount might relegate her to that genre. And while Fay Wray was able to escape typecasting after several outi read more
'But Is It Love?' update: The script exists!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 19, 2020
When Carole Lombard stopped at Salt Lake City's train station on Jan. 13, 1942, she was probably focused on the upcoming war bond rally in Indianapolis. But in the back of her mind, she may have occasionally thought about her career, and the script she planned to film after her next picture, "He Kis read more
Let's hear it for the homegirl
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 4, 2020
While Carole Lombard never saw the plaque honoring her at her birthplace at 704 Rockhill Street in Fort Wayne, Ind., she posed with it in Los Angeles before it was sent east. There it remains, some 82 years after its installation.We bring this up because the plaque is referred to in a Lombard profil read more
The Academy Loves Directors Who Play It Safe
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Feb 3, 2020
I watched Marriage Story with excitement. I’ve been following Noah Baumbach’s career since Kicking and Screaming (1995), a hilarious movie about East Coast college men’s arrested development and how their romantic immaturity interferes with their happiness. The déjà vu happened imm read more
The Academy Loves Directors Who Play It Safe
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Feb 3, 2020
I watched Marriage Story with excitement. I’ve been following Noah Baumbach’s career since Kicking and Screaming (1995), a hilarious movie about East Coast college men’s arrested development and how their romantic immaturity interferes with their happiness. The déjà vu happened imm read more
A Cheap Endorphin Rush, or: 2020’s off to a lousy start, isn’t it?
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 5, 2020
We’ve been marathoning “Superstore” and now “Schitt’s Creek” so I don’t have a ready backlog of Stop Button posts right now. I wrote that sugar-high post earlier this week, which was… something to do. And I’ve been fairly good with the comics posts. I’m going to do the next Ennis read more
book: When It Grows Dark (2016; trans 2017 Anne Bruce) by Jorn Lier Horst
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jan 4, 2020
A prequel to a series of Norwegian police procedurals that I have not read. Thirty-three years ago, in 1983, series protagonist William Wisting is just a humble patrol cop with a young wife, infant twins and too many bills. Trying to catch a habitual car thief, he and his partner make a discovery t read more
Old Time Radio Tuesday – It Pays to Be Ignorant
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Nov 5, 2019
The short intro: For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, Old Time Radio is the phrase generally used to refer to the time when radio was (mostly) live, and was full of a variety of different shows, as opposed to simply being a means for record labels to use robots to promote the top records o read more