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Birthday Girl: Bright Young Thing
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 13, 2012
I think I could be forgiven had I been tempted to save this particular birthday girl to use as a future Mystery Guest. Would you have connected this rather alarmingly coiffed, mildly Tallulahesque denizen of the '20s with Maude Findlay's sharp-tongued factotum Mrs. Naugatuck?
But it's read more
...And Marion Never Looked Lovelier
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 12, 2012
I think Marion Davies must have enjoyed the late 'thirties more than any time in her life. She didn't have to worry about getting up at the crack of dawn to pretend to be a movie star any more (hell, she hardly bothered to brush her hair), WR was getting old enough that he'd let her out on the read more
...And Marion Never Looked Lovelier
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 12, 2012
I think Marion Davies must have enjoyed the late 'thirties more than any time in her life. She didn't have to worry about getting up at the crack of dawn to pretend to be a movie star any more (hell, she hardly bothered to brush her hair), WR was getting old enough that he'd let her out on the read more
Arms and the Man
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 11, 2012
Sixty-three years ago today, Mr. Marlon Brando apparently celebrated Veterans' Day by pumping a little iron. If nothing else, we can all be grateful that Life was there. He's never been my favorite actor (extraordinary talent fatally undercut by what would seem to be the utter absence of read more
Arms and the Man
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 11, 2012
Sixty-three years ago today, Mr. Marlon Brando apparently celebrated Veterans' Day by pumping a little iron. If nothing else, we can all be grateful that Life was there. He's never been my favorite actor (extraordinary talent fatally undercut by what would seem to be the utter absence of read more
Catherine the Great
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 8, 2012
After all this week's sturm und drang, I think we need a moment of quiet reflection. How better to induce a little tranquility than to contemplate beauty? Here, therefore, the exquisite young Catherine Deneuve, serene in what is apparently a high-fashion photo studio version of a high wi read more
Catherine the Great
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 8, 2012
After all this week's sturm und drang, I think we need a moment of quiet reflection. How better to induce a little tranquility than to contemplate beauty? Here, therefore, the exquisite young Catherine Deneuve, serene in what is apparently a high-fashion photo studio version of a high wi read more
Redux: Birthday Girl - Leading Lady
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 2, 2012
Let's wish a happy 120th birthday to dizzy screen favorite Alice Brady, seen here in her alternate incarnation as sophisticated stage star in a rather dazzling Steichen snap.
Brady's career is a nice example of both the richness of casting available to the studios back in the day and the dilemma th read more
Redux: Birthday Girl - Leading Lady
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Nov 2, 2012
Let's wish a happy 120th birthday to dizzy screen favorite Alice Brady, seen here in her alternate incarnation as sophisticated stage star in a rather dazzling Steichen snap.
Brady's career is a nice example of both the richness of casting available to the studios back in the day and the dilemma th read more
Birthday Girls: Elsa and Edith (Now with More Elvis)
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 28, 2012
Two of Hollywood's most interesting eccentrics were born on this date, both in one way or another ugly ducklings who made themselves into swans. In this clip (although not, of course, in its screencap) we see one of them, Miss Elsa Lanchester, onscreen, wearing th read more
Birthday Girls: Elsa and Edith (Now with More Elvis)
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 28, 2012
Two of Hollywood's most interesting eccentrics were born on this date, both in one way or another ugly ducklings who made themselves into swans. In this clip (although not, of course, in its screencap) we see one of them, Miss Elsa Lanchester, onscreen, wearing th read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: My, My, My Delilah
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 27, 2012
Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Or, perhaps even more so, lolling around in one. Just ask Miss Hedy Lamarr, who appears to be having a Maria Montez moment on the set of Samson and Delilah... read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: My, My, My Delilah
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 27, 2012
Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Or, perhaps even more so, lolling around in one. Just ask Miss Hedy Lamarr, who appears to be having a Maria Montez moment on the set of Samson and Delilah... read more
Birthday Boy: The American Olivier
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 24, 2012
Kevin Kline, having survived a stint with Miss Patti LuPuone and more than two decades as Mr. Phoebe Cates, appears, alas, not to be (as Frank Rich dubbed him) "the American Olivier" when it comes to a shall-we-say fluid private life. Pity, given how promising this very mid-eighties lavender e read more
Birthday Boy: The American Olivier
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 24, 2012
Kevin Kline, having survived a stint with Miss Patti LuPuone and more than two decades as Mr. Phoebe Cates, appears, alas, not to be (as Frank Rich dubbed him) "the American Olivier" when it comes to a shall-we-say fluid private life. Pity, given how promising this very mid-eighties lavender e read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: A Sea Change
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 20, 2012
The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Today's SSCE requires me to, as David Niven said of the Oscars streaker, reveal my own shortcomings. I have to admit that I either never knew or have utterly forgotten that the great Briti read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: A Sea Change
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 20, 2012
The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Today's SSCE requires me to, as David Niven said of the Oscars streaker, reveal my own shortcomings. I have to admit that I either never knew or have utterly forgotten that the great Briti read more
RIP: Goodbye, Emmanuelle
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 18, 2012
From Amsterdam comes the sad news that Sylvia Kristel, soft-core superstar of the 1970s, has returned to Fabulon. Kristel occupied an uneasy place in films, neither an outright porn queen, but even so, never quite respectable. She had a bumpy private life (a too-colorful childh read more
Au Petit Matin
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 16, 2012
MGM's 1938 Marie Antoinette is a film better known as the Widow Thalberg's last fling with the Grade-A Prestige Pictures she'd been making since she hit her stride at the top of the decade than it is as an actual movie-to-have-seen.* I haven't, and so was all the more surprised to see, as read more
Au Petit Matin
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Oct 16, 2012
MGM's 1938 Marie Antoinette is a film better known as the Widow Thalberg's last fling with the Grade-A Prestige Pictures she'd been making since she hit her stride at the top of the decade than it is as an actual movie-to-have-seen.* I haven't, and so was all the more surprised to see, as read more