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Five Gals Five
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 13, 2009
Oh, that Marie! She'd do anything to steal a scene - even if means going all polychrome.Seriously, wouldn't it have been fabulous if these ladies had done a picture together? What a festival of dithering, double-takes, withering ripostes, lorgnettes, and lace tea gowns it would have been!I think it read more
Wisdom from the East
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 13, 2009
The first and, to date, only time I saw Charade - rising forty years ago, children - I was simply too young and found it entirely mystifying (if clearly memorable). It was gratifying to find this Japanese poster for the picture, as it conveys incredibly clearly exactly what my confusion felt like. A read more
Birthday Girl: Diva du Nil
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 10, 2009
Today we wish all happy returns to one of the most glamourous creatures in Egyptian film today, the bewitching leading lady known as Youssra.Starting in the early 1980s as a rather gawky supporting actress with an arresting gaze and natural presence, she has blossomed into a genuine star, a performe read more
Alice
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 9, 2009
Judging from her expression here, the mysterious Zizzi brought out the minx hiding just below Miss Faye's demure surface... read more
Conundrum
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 9, 2009
Well, yes. But the question is: of whom? read more
Sweetness and Light
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 9, 2009
After the potential trauma of the last post, why don't we consider this highly uncharacteristic shot of the once and future Margo Channing. I find it fascinating that even with a girly (and almost encleavaging) jersey dress, flatteringly soft hairstyle, and freaking floral arrangement, she still ca read more
Steel Magnolia
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 8, 2009
Sometimes we forget that, even today, giants still roam the earth, and a few goddesses are still at work. Albeit, all too often, in vehicles unworthy of their grandeur... read more
Hollywood Legend
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 8, 2009
Rumor has it that by late '38, Louis B. Mayer was so eager to get the Widow Thalberg out of Marie Antoinette that he tested every single actress on the lot. Sadly, Marjorie Main's supposedly heartbreaking reel has disappeared, and all that remains of Margaret O'Brien's is this haunting still. Yeah read more
Life Lessons
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 7, 2009
Constance Bennett found it out the hard way: smart women don't make pictures at Monogram. Even if it's pretending to be Allied Artists. read more
Just for Kicks
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 5, 2009
One of my goals in life is to spend my Golden Years doing something that ensures I remain as flexible as Miss Charlotte Greenwood. This might, however, be something of a (you should pardon the expression) stretch, as I doubt that - aside from a very brief period sometime during the first Reagan admi read more
Tiho, Tiho!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 4, 2009
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough of that Olivija de Hevilend. She's my idea of a skvělá herečka... read more
And the Planet Spins...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 3, 2009
After a good night's sleep, we're ready for our big number.Isn't this, by the way, exactly where she belongs? I happened on New York, New York the other night just as the "Happy Endings" number, a still from which is seen here, was starting up, and it absolutely blew me away. At her best, Minnelli read more
Westward, Ho!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 2, 2009
And elsewhere, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn... read more
Birthday Girl: Vamp Until Ready
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 23, 2009
Let's wish a happy 120th birthday to the uniquely bizarre Musidora, the French Theda Bara, star of pioneering movie serial Les Vampires. We see her here in Full - and Considerable - Menace. I wouldn't cross her.Of all the stars to whom we might send posthumous best wishes, I'm half-afraid she's the read more
Bright Idea
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 23, 2009
I'm currently pitching a script to star the really rather fetching Mr. Upen Patel (I'm hoping it will distract him from his ceaseless supplicating telegrams). It's a sequel to this year's Best Picture winner, and I'm calling it Horndog Millionaire. read more
Birthday Tiki Boy
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 23, 2009
Today marks what would have been the 94th birthday of the unlikely Polynesianesque love god Jon Hall, best known in film history as the male opposite number to fiery leading ladies like Maria Montez, Dorothy Lamour, and even St. Frances of Farmer.His is not the most elevated of filmographies, with e read more
Hugh
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 22, 2009
Jackman. Apparently he's going to be on television this evening. It won't get started until well into Monday for us, so I likely won't see any of it. It all seems rather academic, in any case, since it turns out I've not seen a single one of the nominees. Was Mamma Mia! released this year? I think t read more
Doin' Whatcha Doin'
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 18, 2009
They're lost in the shadow of the Marx Brothers - hell, they' re lost in the shadow of the Ritz Brothers - but in the very early '30s, Wheeler and Woolsey were a hot item in Hollywood. Nowadays it can be hard to see why, but this delirious number from 1934's Hips, Hips, Hooray! giv read more
Breaking Theatre News!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 16, 2009
From London comes an exciting update: the next star to get the jukebox-musical treatment will be the one and only Miss Doris Day. Yes, it's true. A regional theatre in the UK will soon be the proud home of A Sentimental Journey, a look at the life and hard times of cinema's Leading Professional Vi read more