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Play It Again, Max: Casablanca and the Battle over “As Time Goes By”(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Guest Post on Jan 28, 2021
Casablanca and the Battle over “As Time Goes By”(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith) By mid-1941, Max Steiner had already scored over thirty films at Warner Bros. since becoming that studio’s highest paid staff composer in 1937. Many of his projects had been prestigious and highly profitable. read more
Working Night & Day: Max Steiner, Fred Astaire, and the RKO Movie Musical (Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Guest Post on Jan 2, 2021
Max Steiner, Fred Astaire, and the RKO Movie Musical(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith) In 1933 — the same year he recorded his landmark score for King Kong —Max Steiner achieved another ambition he’d sought since becoming RKO’s musical director: oversight of a sophisticated, successful read more
Mrs. Smith goes glam
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Oct 11, 2020
After two years making dramatic films, Carole Lombard triumphantly returned to comedy in early 1941 with the marital farce "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (directed by, of all people, Alfred Hitchcock). Instead of the nurse and waitress outfits she'd worn in her previous two movies, Carole played an upper-middle read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e01 – Smith and Jones
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 6, 2020
New only-other-billed actor (but technically not the new companion yet) Freema Agyeman guest starred at the end of last season but is playing a different character here. Thank goodness. Agyeman is a medical resident, so it’s going to be the Doctor and a doctor going forward, which is a lot better read more
Mrs. Smith tries on another gown
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jun 9, 2020
When I saw the portrait of Carole Lombard, I thought to myself, "Didn't I run that not long ago?" It turns out I hadn't, and my memory was playing tricks. Here's the photo I was confusing it with:We ran this photo nearly 16 months ago (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/979037.html). It's easy to read more
book: The Hypnotist (2009; trans 2011 Neil Smith) by Lars Kepler
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Feb 2, 2020
I went into this novel with very high expectations, based on its fascinating premise, but alas those expectations weren’t met. Certainly the pages kept turning at a good speed (which is fortunate, because the edition I read has five hundred and bleedin’ sixty-five of them) and certainly read more
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) on Women in Political Life
Backlots Posted by Lara on Nov 11, 2019
Last night, I was pleased to see that KQED, my local PBS affiliate, was showing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for their weekly Saturday night movie program. I have always loved this film, and deeply respect the emotional integrity and intelligence it brings to the screen. It’s hard to imagine read more
book: Salvation of a Saint (2008) by Keigo Higashino, trans 2012 by Alexander O. Smith
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Sep 26, 2019
I’m that difficult codger in the corner who, alone in all the world, wasn’t entirely bowled over by the first of Keigo Higashino’s “Detective Galileo” novels to be translated into English, The Devotion of Suspect X: I thought it was okay but nothing more than that. I’ve enjoyed several of 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
book: The Department of Sensitive Crimes (2019) by Alexander McCall Smith
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 30, 2019
I’ve enjoyed watching the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series on TV but so far as I can recall I’ve never actually read anything by Alexander McCall Smith before. I may have to change my ways because, while I was far from blown away by The Department of Sensitive Crimes, I found read more
Mrs. Smith, minus the Mr.
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 1, 2018
Carole Lombard's return to comedy and penultimate film, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," co-stars her with Robert Montgomery under the direction of Lombard's good friend Alfred Hitchcock. But here are some stills from that 1941 where we see Carole not with Bob, but a man trying to woo her after Mrs. Smith discov read more
book: Under the Midnight Sun (1999; trans 2015 Alexander O. Smith, Joseph Reeder) by Keigo Higashino
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 14, 2018
In Osaka in the early 1970s, a pawnbroker is found savagely murdered in an abandoned building. The crime fascinates Detective Sasagaki, but when, over the next year, the two major suspects die — one in a traffic accident, the other in what everyone thinks is suicide although murder and misadv read more
Watching 1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 11, 2018
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th read more
book: The Crow Girl (2010, 2011, 2012; trans 2015 by Neil Smith) by Erik Axl Sund
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Sep 16, 2018
Several mutilated corpses of pre-adolescent boys turn up in and around Stockholm, and Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg and her team mount a hunt for what’s obviously a serial killer. As part of her effort, she ropes in the assistance of psychologist Sofia Zetterlund, and, even as th read more
Win Tickets to see “TCM Big Screen Classics: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (Giveaway runs through September 29)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Sep 7, 2018
Win tickets to see “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” on the big screen! In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sun Oct 14 and Wed Oct 17! “I always get a great kick out of that part of the Declaration of Independence.” CMH continues into our 3rd year of our partnership with Fathom Events read more
Review: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 3, 2018
The opening credits roll and recognition comes with each name that pops on the screen. Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Palette, Beulah Bondi, H.B. Warner, Harry Carey, Porter Hall, Charles Lane, William Demarest, Jack Carson, and of course read more
Review: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 3, 2018
The opening credits roll and recognition comes with each name that pops on the screen. Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Palette, Beulah Bondi, H.B. Warner, Harry Carey, Porter Hall, Charles Lane, William Demarest, Jack Carson, and of course read more
ClassicFlix (Teen Scene): Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Jun 27, 2017
From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read read more
C. Aubrey Smith on England, Cricket, Actors and Pictures
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 14, 2016
He puffed meditatively at his briar pipe. C. Aubrey Smith, like most Britishers, smokes a briar. He has his own pet mixture, compounded after the English trick to blending tobacco that Hollywood has never quite mastered. To hear him lecture on it is like reading a chapter of “My Lady Nicotine. read more