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CLOSING NIGHT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL: “He Who Gets Slapped” (1924)
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 19, 2011
The closing night of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival last night featured a screening of He Who Gets Slapped, an incredibly disturbing, upsetting, yet ultimately touching and poignant film. It stars Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, and Lon Chaney as “He,” a clown performing in an act read more
Guest programmer on TCM: JANE POWELL
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 18, 2011
Me with Jane Powell. I met Jane Powell in the summer of 2010 at the Judy Garland Festival in Minnesota. I found Jane to be an extremely elegant, very polite woman who is still just as beautiful today as she was 50 years ago. She is the definition of a lady–she sat with her legs perfec read more
AN EVENING AT THE SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL–Review of “Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt” (A Woman Men Yearn For)
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 17, 2011
Last night I went to the Castro Theatre to see “Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt” (A Woman Men Yearn For), part of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival that started on Thursday and is going on through tonight. Due to lack of finances, I have not been able to attend until now, read more
GINGER ROGERS CENTENARY BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 16, 2011
Ginger Rogers would have been 100 years old today. In honor of this immensely multi-talented star of stage and screen, I am putting together a humble birthday tribute to say a posthumous thank you to a woman who quite literally gave her heart and soul to the film industry. I will start by saying t read more
Backlots is now on Twitter!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 16, 2011
Subscribe and follow all the latest posts, at the username backlotsfilm. See you there! Thanks for reading, everyone! read more
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Ballet Sequence, The King and I (1956)
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 12, 2011
Lying around daydreaming about movies the other day (as I tend to do), I began to think about The King and I, a movie I last saw at the Maureen O’Hara Classic Film Festival last month, and just how much I love one particular sequence in the movie. In a film that I think is chock full of quali read more
VIVIEN LEIGH AND LAURENCE OLIVIER APPRECIATION BLOGATHON–The Cleopatra Plays and Vivien Leigh’s Second Oscar
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 9, 2011
On May 10, 1951, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier opened their first performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra, part of their effort to perform that play and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra simultaneously, on alternating nights, at the St. James Theatre in London. read more
4TH OF JULY MOVIE REVIEW: To The Shores of Tripoli (1942)
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 4, 2011
Well everyone, first off I would like to wish you and yours a very safe and happy holiday today, with lots of good food, good celebration, and warm summer weather! My family is off to Sonoma today for a picnic, but first I would like to post a short movie review of a film related to the U.S. for th read more
DUAL BIRTHDAY SPAMS–#1: Leslie Caron
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 1, 2011
July 1 produces great Hollywood stars. Tomorrow (or today in France, where both birthday girls reside) is the birthday of two film legends–Leslie Caron (born 1931) and Olivia de Havilland (born a whopping 1916). As I know I’m going to get carried away about Olivia and basically write an read more
BIRTHDAY SPAM–#2: Olivia de Havilland.
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jul 1, 2011
For those of you who may be new here, I am a huge Olivia de Havilland fan. I made her this blog’s first Star of the Week–I adore every movie she ever made–even the bad ones (ahem…Alibi Ike, Lady in a Cage), because I just love watching her on the screen. She has been living read more
Paris in Hollywood
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 28, 2011
As I am currently waiting at the airport to go back to the United States after a 5-month adventure in Paris, my last hurrah to Paris before I return is a post on Paris in film. This is a truly magnificent city, and deserves every ounce of the respect it has been afforded in film. Here are a few not read more
The Maureen O’Hara Classic Film Festival–June 17-26 in Glengarriff, County Cork, Ireland.
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 26, 2011
I flew to Ireland on June 15 and spent the week at the Maureen O’Hara Classic Film Festival, in a small town called Glengarriff, County Cork–the home of Maureen O’Hara herself. It was an absolutely wonderful week, filled with many great films (we watched 3 classic movies per day) read more
Support Lindon’s movie!
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 13, 2011
My friend Lindon Warren, a Judy fan and an INCREDIBLY talented Judy Garland impersonator, is making a movie! The movie is called “Finding Judy,” and it’s a documentary about his journey with Judy and how it has helped him cope with some of life’s curveballs. It has already b read more
A TRIBUTE TO JUDY GARLAND
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 10, 2011
June 10 marks the day that Judy Garland would have been 89 years old. If you have been following my blog at all, you already know that I am a huge Judy Garland fan. She has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and the really serious fandom started when I was about 10, when I heard read more
Article from Paris Match issue no. 159, from the week of March 29-April 5, 1952.
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 7, 2011
I translated this Paris Match article from the original French. Enjoy! IN HER BROADWAY DRESSING ROOM, VIVIEN LEIGH RECEIVES HER SECOND OSCAR By our special New York correspondent, Georges Pernoud When reporters from the American press were admitted into Vivien Leigh’s dressing room at the Zi read more
A Weekend With the Oliviers
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 3, 2011
The entire group in front of the Laurence Olivier statue at the National Theatre, London. This past weekend, as you may recall from previous posts, I attended a marvelous Vivien Leigh/Laurence Olivier event in London, organized by Kendra at vivandlarry.com and attended by people from all over the w read more
BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE–Marilyn Monroe
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 1, 2011
I am going to try not to focus on Marilyn or Audrey on this blog, but today is Marilyn’s birthday, so I think she deserves a small tribute. The reason I’m not going to focus on either of those two is that I feel they have become pop icons, available everywhere, and all their charm (of w read more
SMALL WORLD, 1958 (with Vivien Leigh, Sam Goldwyn, Kenneth Tynan)
Backlots Posted by Lara on May 25, 2011
In 1958, Vivien Leigh met, via satellite, with Ken Tynan and Samuel Goldwyn to discuss various Hollywood subjects on Edward R. Murrow’s show “Small World.” The show brought together a critic (Tynan), an actress (Leigh) and a producer (Goldwyn) in an attempt to get the points of vi read more
Stars of the Week–VIVIEN LEIGH AND LAURENCE OLIVIER.
Backlots Posted by Lara on May 23, 2011
In preparation for the Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier weekend in London this coming weekend that I have been looking forward to for months, I am dedicating this week’s Star of the Week honors to that talented and beautiful couple of the stage and screen. Though they were both tremendously read more