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Jeanette McDonald: MGM Love Triangle – Part 1

Lets Misbehave: A Tribute to Precode Hollywood Posted by Emma on Feb 12, 2013

When onscreen love affairs spill over into real-life romances it is always the stuff of legends. The well documented relationships of famous acting duos Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have fascinated and warmed the heart read more

Love Hollywood Style: Joan Blondell.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 12, 2013

Blondell was married three times, first to cinematographer George Barnes in a private wedding ceremony on 4 January 1933 at the First Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, Arizona. They had one child, Norman S. Powell, (who became an accomplished producer, director, and television executive) and divor read more

Jeanette MacDonald: MGM Love Triangle – Part 1

Lets Misbehave: A Tribute to Precode Hollywood Posted by Emma on Feb 12, 2013

When onscreen love affairs spill over into real-life romances it is always the stuff of legends. The well documented relationships of famous acting duos Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have fascinated and warmed the heart read more

Love Hollywood Style: Harold Lloyd.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 11, 2013

Harold Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis(d.1969), on Saturday, February 10, 1923. Together, they had two children: Gloria Lloyd (1924–2012), and Harold Clayton Lloyd, Jr., (1931–1971). They also adopted Gloria Freeman (1924–1986) in September 1930, whom they rename read more

Love Hollywood Style: Gregory Peck.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 10, 2013

In October 1942 Peck married Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen (1911–2008), with whom he had three sons, Jonathan (1944–75), Stephen (b. 1946), and Carey Paul (b. 1949). They were divorced on December 30, 1955, but maintained a very good relationship. On December 31, 1955, the day afte read more

Love Hollywood Style: Gary Cooper.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 9, 2013

My favorite actor, Gary Cooper, had been one of Hollywood's favorite leading men for over 30 years and had several high-profile relationships with actresses: Starting with in 1927 Gary was chosen by the silent movie star Clara Bow, to play a reporter in her film, "IT"(1927). Clara, fell in lov read more

Love Hollywood style: Fred MacMurray.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 8, 2013

MacMurray was married twice. He married Lillian Lamont, his first wife, on June 20, 1936, and the couple adopted two children, Susan (b. 1940) and Robert (b. 1946). After Lamont died on June 22, 1953, he married actress June Haver the following year. He and Haver adopted two more children, t read more

Love Hollywood Style: Constance Bennett.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 7, 2013

Constance Bennett was married five times and it all began with her first marriage in 1921, when she eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, the son of a surgeon. The marriage was annulled in 1923. After which Bennett, eloped with millionaire Philip Morgan Plant in 1925. They divorced in read more

Love Hollywood Style: Claudette Colbert.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 6, 2013

Colbert, was best known for her confident, intelligent style and her subtle, graceful acting and in 1928, married Norman Foster, an actor and director, who performed with Colbert in the Broadway show, The Barker. They never lived together, supposedly because Colbert's mother disliked Foster and read more

Love Hollywood Style: Cary Grant.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 5, 2013

Cary Grant was married five times. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She was best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931). She divorced Grant on 26 March 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. In 1942, he married Barbara Hutto read more

Love Hollywood Style: Carole Lombard.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 4, 2013

In October 1930, Lombard met William Powell. They had worked together in the films: Man of the World and Ladies' Man. Unlike many of Lombard's other suitors, Powell was sophisticated. He loved her humor and charm. They married on June 26, 1931. Lombard commented to fan magazines that she did no read more

Silents available in 2013 - a mix of horror, murder and lost love...

Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Feb 3, 2013

Reblogged from Peter Urpeth # Music For Silent Movies #: I am very pleased to offer performances of my scores to the following silents in 2013: Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932 - 73 mins): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/ Menilmontant pictured (Kirsanoff, 1926 - 38 mins): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt014703 read more

Love Hollywood Style: Carlton Heston.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 3, 2013

Married for sixty-five years, Lydia Clarke was Carlton Heston's first and only love. Carlton and Lydia met at Northwestern University where they were both students taking a theater course.Carlton Heston, a 19-year-old college student who enlisted in the Air Corps, asked Lydia Clarke to marry him read more

Love Hollywood Style: Bette Davis.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 2, 2013

Bette Davis's personal life was as dramatic as her acting. She was married four times: Harmon Oscar Nelson, August 18, 1932 (divorced). Two-time Oscar winner, Bette Davis believed that she created the term Oscar to describe the golden trophy. “I am convinced that I was the first to g read more

Love Hollywood Style: Audrey Hepburn.

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on Feb 1, 2013

English actress Audrey Hepburn, well known for both her film and fashion icon of  Hollywood's Golden Age, became engaged in 1952 to James Hanson, a English Conservative industrialist who built his businesses through many buyouts through Hanson plc. She had known Hanson since her L read more

April Love (1957)

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 23, 2013

(Image: Hollywood Teen Movies) Nick Conover (Pat Boone), a small-time thief and generally trouble-making young man, is sent from Chicago to his uncle’s Kentucky horse farm after being put on probation and losing his driver’s license for “borrowing” a car. Nick isn’t exa read more

"Ladies of Leisure," or Easel to Love

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 9, 2013

Barbara Stanwyck enters the 1930 film "Ladies of Leisure" -- and film history -- in a rowboat. The oars squeak. Her face is marked by mascara-streaked tears and she's clutching a broken dress strap. She's Kay, a party girl who just left a wild one on a yacht. On shore is Ralph Graves as Jerry, who' read more

"Ladies of Leisure," or Easel to Love

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on Jan 9, 2013

Barbara Stanwyck enters the 1930 film "Ladies of Leisure" -- and film history -- in a rowboat. The oars squeak. Her face is marked by mascara-streaked tears and she's clutching a broken dress strap. She's Kay, a party girl who just left a wild one on a yacht. On shore is Ralph Graves as Jerry, who' read more

Love in the 1970s: Avanti, The Goodbye Girl, and Harold and Maude

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Nov 26, 2012

Lemmon and Mills = great chemistry. Avanti! (1972) Director: Billy Wilder    Cast: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, and Clive Revill. One of Wilder’s last films stars Lemmon as an uptight American businessman who journeys to a small Italian town to retrieve the body of his father, wh read more
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