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Mae Clarke: More than a Grapefruit in the Face
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Sep 8, 2019
I was recently a guest on a podcast, on which I was asked about Mae Clarke, and I am mortified to admit that, at the time, I couldn’t think of the name of a single, solitary one of her movies. This would have been bad enough if it had been just any classic movie star, but Mae Clarke?!? One of read more
Exclusive Interview with Ted Donaldson – who starred in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Once Upon a Time and more
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Aug 20, 2019
Exclusive Interview with Ted Donaldson about his career, special memories of Cary Grant, Harry Cohn, Elia Kazan and more… I’m so excited to say that I was able to sit down with Ted Donaldson for an exclusive video interview! I met Ted in 2018 at the TCM Film Festival and had such a lovely read more
The Seven-Ups: More Than a Great Car Chase
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 12, 2019
Roy Scheider as Manucci.
The late 1960s and early 1970s was a banner period for gritty, urban cop pictures. Philip D'Antoni produced three of the best, which all incidentally featured nail-biting chase sequences: Bullitt, The French Connection, and The Seven-Ups. The least famous of that trio is Th read more
Contracts for more Lombard movie history
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 11, 2019
Carole Lombard was at a career crossroads when she posed for this photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt of Life magazine in mid-1938. For the past four years, she had gained renown for her mastery at smart romantic comedy, but her latest film in that vein, "Fools For Scandal" at Warners, had been both a criti read more
More than “just a film”: The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Jul 5, 2019
John Frankenheimer is one of those movie directors whose films, I feel, are so unique, that I couldn’t compare them with the work of anybody else. He fits, I believe, in the category of those “authors”. But it’s subtle and you have to look at them with a lot of reflexions. read more
The China Syndrome—More Than a Conspiracy Thriller
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 4, 2019
Jane Fonda as Kimberly.
Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda), an ambitious reporter for an L.A. television station, wants to be a serious journalist. Instead, her condescending boss has given her “puff pieces”—stories about singing telegrams and tiger birthday parties at the zoo. Another r read more
A Swingin' Summer Swings No More
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 1, 2019
I suspect that many of you have experienced the disappoint-ment of re-watching a once-cherished movie that has been tarnished by time. I wouldn't classify A Swinging' Summer as a "cherished" movie, but there was a time in my youth when I found it to be a pleasing entertainment. Thus, when I recently read more
Joan Crawford: A Face and a Whole Lot More in "Our Dancing Daughters"
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 9, 2019
This is my entry in the Joan Crawford: Queen of the Silver Screen Blogathon, hosted by Pale Writer and Poppity Talks Classic Films. Click HERE for more Joan.
"Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophisticati read more
The Rom Com Fest lowdown: Schedule, ticket info and more
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 8, 2019
Good news for those of us who get a kick out of romantic comedy, just as Carole Lombard and John Barrymore did in "Twentieth Century" 85 years ago: Next month in Los Angeles, the genre will be celebrated with the inaugural Rom Com Fest, specifically from June 20-23.Variety even publicized it yesterd read more
An Interview with Ruta Lee: A Lively Conversation about Seven Brides, Marlene Dietrich, Perry Mason, Khrushchev...and More!
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 14, 2019
Ruta Lee made her big screen acting debut in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1953 at the age of eighteen. She has been performing ever since! Her film roles have run the gamut from portraying Tyrone Power's girlfriend in Witness for the Prosecution (1957) to starring opposite the whole Rat P read more
A 'little' more on Monroe from Morgan
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 21, 2019
One of my favorite Carole Lombard books, "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star," was authored by British Facebook friend Michelle Morgan.(Full disclosure: I aided Morgan in her research, and am one of two people the book is dedicated to.) Now she's back with a volume on a favorite subject of hers. read more
Some more on rom-coms
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 24, 2019
Hours from the Academy Awards, which Carole Lombard (shown above with Fred MacMurray in "True Confession") probably is monitoring from Hollywood heaven, thoughts on my favorite genre, the romantic comedy:Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote Friday that "Isn't It Romantic" (https://carole-and-co read more
Learning more about ‘The Great Buster’ (Keaton)
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Feb 19, 2019
A few weeks ago, my dad told me they were going to screen a documentary on Buster Keaton at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal. We watched the trailer and came to the conclusion it looked like an amazing film and that we had to go see it. Working myself in a movie theatre which has the same administra read more
The 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Still More Adventures in Paradise — Part 5
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Feb 18, 2019
My hotel room is reserved, my plane tickets are purchased, and my traveling companion (my older daughter is going this year!) is secured . . . so you know what that means! Time for another installment in my ongoing series about the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival! Now that we’re into 2019, the read more
More 'Marriage In Transit,' this time in French
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 25, 2019
In yesterday's entry, we noted Carole Lombard's first film under her name, "Marriage In Transit," has been presumed lost since a first at the Fox archives in 1937. But one place it might be uncovered is...France.That's because in January 1926, the magazine Le Film Complet did a two-page spread on it read more
More where that came from
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 20, 2019
Yesterday's entry dealt with three lobby cards for Carole Lombard's "Made For Each Other." That same seller has six other vintage lobby cards from four of her films, including Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 marital farce "Mr. & Mrs. Smith": This pictures Carole with co-star Robert Montgomery. It's an excel read more
The 'Made In 1938' blogathon: For Carole, more action off-screen than on
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 18, 2019
For Carole Lombard, 1937 arguably marked her artistic apex, at least on screen. She began the year still enveloped in critical hosannas from "My Man Godfrey," and ended '37 with not one but two hit comedies: The Technicolor "Nothing Sacred" from Selznick International and "True Confession" from Para read more
'Hollywood,' January 1935: Carole (and Clark) wish you the merriest, and more
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 25, 2018
I hope all of you are having a merry Christmas 2018, as Carole Lombard is in this publicity still from 1939's "In Name Only." It was made at about the same time as her marriage to Clark Gable.As fate would have it, several years before -- prior to their highly-publicized romance -- they were "neighb read more
Cinematic Sundays: 'No More Orchids'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 28, 2018
While Carole Lombard's first film for Columbia, the adult-themed "Virtue," drew uncertain audience and critical reaction at the time, her follow-up for Harry Cohn's upstart studio in late 1932, "No More Orchids," was a more traditional romance. It's this week's topic at "Cinematic Sundays."Louella P read more
The 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Still More Adventures in Paradise — Part III
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Oct 8, 2018
Now that the dates for the 2019 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival have been announced (April 11-14, 2019!!), I think it’s a great time for another installment in my ongoing look at this year’s event. On the second day of the event, I was faced with one of many time slots that featured numerous read more