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After and Before: King of the Flickers
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 16, 2009
This mild-mannered elderly gentleman is none other than an idol of the Silent Screen, the original Ben Hur's blood enemy: Francis X. Bushman...Vaudeville Grandma Muscato retained until the end of her days a breathless quality about him. She maintained that until you'd seen him opposite Beverly Bayne read more
I Love the Nightlife
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 9, 2009
Settle down, darlings, for another lesson in the splendour of classic Egyptian films. Today we have the big nightclub number from Ghazal al Binat, a 1949 hit starring the glamourous Laila Mourad, who may seem rather matronly to the modern eye but who was a major sensation in the read more
Flattened by Fabulousness
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 8, 2009
Miss Loretta Young, intoxicated by her own very personal brand of cheap allure.Why am I so drawn to someone who so sets my teeth on edge? It's some measure, I suppose, of the lady's undeniable - albeit deeply annoying - star power... read more
Pre-Consciousness Pinup
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 6, 2009
I'm always struck, when looking at her earliest work, that Jane Fonda ever emerged as an activist/feminist/entrepreneur and, most recently, nascent grande dame.For at least the first five or six years of her career, she gave every sign of being a sleepwalker, as vapid and absent as any fifties starl read more
Lovely Rita
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 4, 2009
"At least...not half as much as I know about backlessness" read more
Mistaken Identities, Avatar Edition
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 2, 2009
A gentle reader - yes, that's you, Larry! - perhaps inspired by our several posts recently on Mistaken Identities, has queried whether the Avatar I've chosen in lieu of a more representative likeness (who these days might best be Sebastian Cabot, or perhaps late-middle period Orson Welles) is in fac read more
Mysteries of Ruth Chatterton
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 29, 2009
Apparently, she's unfaithful.But why is she doing a Miriam Hopkins impersonation? read more
Meanwhile, at the Harbour View Hotel
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 29, 2009
I'm starting our weekend off in a New Wave kind of mood, so here's a glimpse of one my favorite pictures, 1982's Starstruck (from which we have previously experienced the delirious water ballet).Once upon a time, this was exactly how I wanted to look, dress, sing, and dance. No read more
Hollywood at Play
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 24, 2009
'Round about 70 years, Edgar Bergen - pioneer and, really, sole practitioner of the very odd profession of radio ventriloquist - gave a party. The theme? The Gay '90s. It looks like it was great, if slightly quirky, fun. The host, of course, entertained, in the company of a blackfaced Charlie McCart read more
All Too True Titles
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 23, 2009
Drop the "in", and you've got a perfectly serviceable tag line for Loretta's greatest title role ever. As far as I'm concerned, she certainly was. read more
Happy Birthday, Cowboy
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 22, 2009
That tall drink of water, Randolph Scott, was born this fine day in 1898. His craggy allure and affable screen presence were for many years the best reasons to sit through the dozens of Westerns in which he was the most interesting thing on screen.I like him best, though, earlier on, in the '30s, w read more
Have You Had Your Fix Today?
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 21, 2009
Your Garbo fix, that is. Neither had I.Now we can all feel that much better, having basked for a moment in those eyes. read more
A Galaxy of Birthdays
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 17, 2009
If you feel a little something special in the air today, perhaps it's a result of the extraordinary energy generated by the fabulous creatures celebrating their birthdays.The glorious Dalida, international sensation and tragic muse;Miss Sheree North, who made it through a rocky start as a Marilyn-wa read more
Diva Paraphernalia
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 17, 2009
Only the most extreme of divas should attempt a scenario involving so many key accessories: fur, feathers, chaise, and hunky stud. For most, any two at most is enough of a challenge.For Mae, of course, it's just another day at the office. And baby, it's hot inside... read more
In Which Your Host Reveals All
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 15, 2009
Or at least some.Bloggerista Extraordinaire Shirley has turned us on to the Interview Me Meme. Always eager for an excuse not to have to think of my own content, I volunteered. Here's how it goes:You have to link back to the original post and also to your interviewer's post and include the following read more
AdiĂłs, Amigo
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 14, 2009
The world is down another leading man; Ricardo Montalbán, king of the rolling Rs and urbane affability, has headed toward that Very Special Love Boat Two-Parter in the sky. Before he became a television staple (and check out his IMDb listing - that man worked!) he was of course a bona fide movie sta read more
Male on the Beach
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 10, 2009
Monty may have been a troubled boy, but he sure did good things for beachwear...Sadly, now that I am a stout middle-aged personage, this is no longer the effect I create Ă la plage. I have, in fact, in recent seasons (and given local styles) even considered the dread caftan, that signifier of elde read more
Birthday Girl: Gallic Glamour
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 6, 2009
Glamourous French beauty, model, and actress Capucine would have been a mere eighty today, had fate been kinder. If her American career never quite equaled the amount of publicity it received, she was nonetheless something more than merely decorative in a number of pictures, not least as madam Barba read more
O Lucky Man!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 6, 2009
Ask and ye shall receive, Gentle Readers! When someone asks for another chance to indulge in the fine art of appreciating Bollywood star John Abraham, I see no reason not to follow through. Even lounging around a haystack, young Mr. A. maintains a kind of janerussellische msytique. He lives in a wor read more
Of Guns and Guns
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 5, 2009
And what do you suppose is on dear Mr. Raymond Burr's mind as he brandishes his little pistol over the recumbent form of an apparently complaisant Mr. Robert Mitchum?Reels the mind... read more