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Bookshop Sex: Did they do it?! Something's been bugging me ever since I watched THE BIG SLEEP (1946) for the first time a couple years ago ... Okay, you know when Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) ducks inside the Acme Bookshop located across the street from Geiger's more 'upmarket' shop to read more

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema Anne Helen Petersen Penguin/Plume, 2014 Scandals of Classic Hollywood is not as scandalous as the sensational cover would have you believe, but it succeeds in its own way. Instead of titillating with the read more

Mean Girls Grow into Mean Ladies Now in French! A cast... A story... A film...As you do not see once in your life Separate Tables (1958) Set in an English seaside hotel in the off-season, Separate Tables is a character study of the people who live there year-roun read more

The Opposite Sex (1956) April 28, 2014 / The Cinema Dilettante Stars: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Leslie Nielsen When one mentions remakes of the beloved classic 1939 movie The Women, fiery read more

Single or attached, I’ve always loathed Valentine’s Day. When single, I’ve wondered why our couples-obsessed culture needs a day devoted to twosomes. When attached, I’ve pondered why I should celebrate en masse what’s supposed to be intimate. Therefore, my three recs today are for those who read more

Single or attached, I’ve always loathed Valentine’s Day. When single, I’ve wondered why our couples-obsessed culture needs a day devoted to twosomes. When attached, I’ve pondered why I should celebrate en masse what’s supposed to be intimate. Therefore, my three recs today are for those who read more

The first Billy Wilder movie I ever saw was Sunset Boulevard (1950). A noir classic, dark and cynical, it’s equal parts funny, sad, nostalgic and creepy. It included fantastic cameos from early Hollywood royalty, and referenced its scandalous past. Naturally, I sought out Wilder’s other read more

Continuing our examination of Screen Guide magazine with the January 1938 issue, Carole Lombard is shown above, leading a feature called "Sex Or Brains -- Which Makes A Movie Star?" It said that while she was the "Foremost exponent of sex appeal on the screen (at first glance)...what makes her such read more

That's Carole Lombard rehearsing with ailing ex-husband William Powell in May 1938 for the "Lux Radio Theater" adaptation of their hit film "My Man Godfrey." It would be Carole's debut on the series, nearly two years after "Lux" had left New York, where it had originated in 1934, for the West Coast. read more

One parallel I’ve recently noticed that exists between non-fiction writing and filmmaking is that the question of scope is very much relevant to both. If you want to truly convey your message and your narrative, you had better not lose the reins and have control of where you are taking your au read more

My latest contribution to the ongoing Wonders in the Dark Comedy Countdown is live … at number 42, it’s the frenetic and fanatically funny Preston Sturges masterpiece, The Palm Beach Story (1942)! Head on over to WitD to check out my thoughts on one of my favorite films of all time, and read more

The youthful fans of Twilight and True Blood might like to believe that they have cornered the market on the sexy vampire trade, but attractive bloodsuckers have been haunting the silver screen for quite a long time. Long before Edward Cullen and Bill Compton thrilled the hearts of today's Gothic he read more

The youthful fans of Twilight and True Blood might like to believe that they have cornered the market on the sexy vampire trade, but attractive bloodsuckers have been haunting the silver screen for quite a long time. Long before Edward Cullen and Bill Compton thrilled the hearts of today's Gothic he read more

The youthful fans of Twilight and True Blood might like to believe that they have cornered the market on the sexy vampire trade, but attractive bloodsuckers have been haunting the silver screen for quite a long time. Long before Edward Cullen and Bill Compton thrilled the hearts of today's Gothic he read more

    The final installment of Golden Age on the Silver Screen till November, and I really wish I had picked a better movie for this mid-season finale.  The Sex Symbol is a “thinly veiled” biopic of Marilyn which is just a fancy way of saying the film changed characters’ read more

"An American In Paris" ballet: Sex On Fire How this musical number of the 1950s made it past Hollywood censors I will never know.  The notorious Hollywood Production Code, enforced in 1934, was a ruthless machine which controlled what was put onto theatre screens the world ove read more

I’m reviewing all five films in the Forbidden Hollywood volume two box set:  Review of Night Nurse Thou Shalt Not is a 2008 TCM documentary and DVD supplement on the Forbidden Hollywood volume two collection.  I don’t generally watch DVD features, especially not on movies I rent consider read more

Before May is out, you'll see our regular monthly Carole Lombard "looking back" feature for May 1933, but this week we're examining two long Sunday newspaper articles on Hollywood that ran that month. Tuesday, we looked at kissing; today, what often happens after a kiss (or two, or three, or...)Yep, read more

Here's an interesting discovery -- a previously unseen Carole Lombard p1202 portrait that was used as a fan magazine cover. Or so we think. (We'll explain shortly.) First, the photo, p1202-681: A stunning shot of Carole mulling things over while showing off her polished nails and jeweled left hand a read more

Jayne Mansfield's legacy has been a doubtful one, most often noted for its tragic ending and Mansfield's failure to eclipse the fame of fellow blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe. That's a shame, too, because she really shines in the 1956 musical comedy, The Girl Can't Help It. Far from being a mere de read more