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Birthday Girl: A Name Below the Title
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 8, 2013
Because it's her birthday today (she's 77, and still I'm sure a spritely presence), let's spend a moment thinking about Sue Ane Langdon. Who? Exactly. I'm always interested in the kind of performer who can work for years, and steadily, and even in high-profile vehicles (she made two Elvi read more
Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Claudette Colbert
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 18, 2013
For no reason at all, except that she is superb, and rarely more so than here.
Colbert is one of those '30s ladies (along with Myrna Loy, among others) whose career took an unexpected turn. We remember her as the durable Great Lady, full of a kind of high-mid-Atlantic sophistication, perhaps read more
Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Claudette Colbert
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 18, 2013
For no reason at all, except that she is superb, and rarely more so than here.
Colbert is one of those '30s ladies (along with Myrna Loy, among others) whose career took an unexpected turn. We remember her as the durable Great Lady, full of a kind of high-mid-Atlantic sophistication, perhaps read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - "Paula Prentiss, Ditto!"
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 16, 2013
Successful Camp... even when it reveals self-parody, reeks of self-love
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
"Yvette Mimieux as herself"* - this is the kind of phrase that real camp-film aficionados - me, of course, among them - live for. And poor Paula, just a ditto...
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Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - "Paula Prentiss, Ditto!"
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 16, 2013
Successful Camp... even when it reveals self-parody, reeks of self-love
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
"Yvette Mimieux as herself"* - this is the kind of phrase that real camp-film aficionados - me, of course, among them - live for. And poor Paula, just a ditto...
This movie appears t read more
Dream Weaver
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 4, 2013
Oh, I know, other people's dreams really are dull, and mine are no exception. Even so, I'm going to beg your indulgence and hope that you gentle readers might help me parse out one I've been having lately.
Maybe it's just a delayed reaction to reading her obituaries last summer, or maybe it's read more
Dream Weaver
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 4, 2013
Oh, I know, other people's dreams really are dull, and mine are no exception. Even so, I'm going to beg your indulgence and hope that you gentle readers might help me parse out one I've been having lately.
Maybe it's just a delayed reaction to reading her obituaries last summer, or maybe it's read more
Birthday Girl: Mambo!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 30, 2013
In honor of the lady's 88th birthday, let's spend a moment celebrating Dorothy Malone's fabulously demented performance in a rather fabulously demented picture, 1956's Douglas Sirk epic Written on the Wind. She's a heedless young Texas heiress who mesmerizes the boys with the wild abandon read more
Birthday Girl: Mambo!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 30, 2013
In honor of the lady's 88th birthday, let's spend a moment celebrating Dorothy Malone's fabulously demented performance in a rather fabulously demented picture, 1956's Douglas Sirk epic Written on the Wind. She's a heedless young Texas heiress who mesmerizes the boys with the wild abandon read more
Maisie is a Star
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 22, 2013
Let's wish a happy birthday (her 104th, believe it or not, were she here to celebrate it) to Hollywood stalwart Ann Sothern.
Sothern's career is a bit of an anomaly; thanks to a combination of longevity (she worked steadily from the late '20s to the late '70s), versatility (she did musicals, comedi read more
Maisie is a Star
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 22, 2013
Let's wish a happy birthday (her 104th, believe it or not, were she here to celebrate it) to Hollywood stalwart Ann Sothern.
Sothern's career is a bit of an anomaly; thanks to a combination of longevity (she worked steadily from the late '20s to the late '70s), versatility (she did musicals, comedi read more
Redux: Birthday Goddess, After and Before
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 16, 2013
It's a big day at the Café, kids - the 105th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest showpeople who ever lived, the brass-lunged, foul-mouthed, great-hearted self-creation that was - deep breath - Ethel Merman. Let's give it up. The stage was her medium and the movies didn't ever do her jus read more
Redux: Birthday Goddess, After and Before
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 16, 2013
It's a big day at the Café, kids - the 105th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest showpeople who ever lived, the brass-lunged, foul-mouthed, great-hearted self-creation that was - deep breath - Ethel Merman. Let's give it up. The stage was her medium and the movies didn't ever do her jus read more
Birthday Girls: Stars Wavishing and Less So
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 14, 2013
Caught up in that little shopping frenzy yesterday, I missed a landmark birthday, that of longtime Café patroness and mascot, the magnificent Miss Kay Francis. We see her here at the height of her glory, superb in all the trappings of stardom in the Golden Age: turban, stole, plunging décollet read more
Birthday Girls: Stars Wavishing and Less So
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 14, 2013
Caught up in that little shopping frenzy yesterday, I missed a landmark birthday, that of longtime Café patroness and mascot, the magnificent Miss Kay Francis. We see her here at the height of her glory, superb in all the trappings of stardom in the Golden Age: turban, stole, plunging décollet read more
The Lady and her Music
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 2, 2013
I'm reading a biography of Lena Horne at the moment, marveling at the enormous strength of character it must have taken to have made for herself the life that she did, faced as she was at every turn by the most unpromising circumstances you can imagine, from a spectacularly unhelpful family backgrou read more
The Lady and her Music
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 2, 2013
I'm reading a biography of Lena Horne at the moment, marveling at the enormous strength of character it must have taken to have made for herself the life that she did, faced as she was at every turn by the most unpromising circumstances you can imagine, from a spectacularly unhelpful family backgrou read more
'Round Midnight
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 30, 2012
Trust dear Miss Ann Miller to be the one to lead us on our way out of this old year - if there were anyone from Olde Hollywood with whom I think it would be a kick to spend New Year's Eve, I suspect it would be she. Katharine Hepburn would want to do something improving - recite Longfellow, pe read more
'Round Midnight
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 30, 2012
Trust dear Miss Ann Miller to be the one to lead us on our way out of this old year - if there were anyone from Olde Hollywood with whom I think it would be a kick to spend New Year's Eve, I suspect it would be she. Katharine Hepburn would want to do something improving - recite Longfellow, pe read more
Cover Girl (2)
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 20, 2012
While the President is in the spotlight for nabbing the cover of Time this week, 69 years ago today that honor went to Miss Greer Garson, MGM's post-Shearer doyenne of prestige pictures and Great Lady parts.
It's funny, for I was thinking of her earlier today; I'm home sick with a very boring cold, read more