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Kim Novak (1)
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 13, 2011
Kim Novak was born Marilyn Pauline Novak on Feb. 13, 1933 in Chicago Illinois. After high school she began modeling teen fashions locally. She later recieved a scholarship to a modeling academy and made her way to Hollywood where she continued to model. In 1954 she had an uncredited role in the movi read more
Classic Hats – Marion Davis, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Ginger Rogers, Carole Lombard, Betty Grable
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 11, 2011
Marion Davis
Joan Crawford
Greta Garbo
Ginger Rogers
Carole Lombard
Betty Grable
Bette Davis
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Carmen Miranda: The Brazilian Bombshell
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 10, 2011
Carmen Miranda, nicknamed the “Brazilian Bombshell”, was a Portuguese born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress, and Hollywood film star very popular in the 1940′s and 50′s. She was born Feb, 9, 1909 in Portugal and moved with her family to Rio de Janero, Brazil when s read more
“Two Girls And A Sailor” – June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 9, 2011
Two Girls And A Sailor (MGM 1944) stars June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven as sisters who perform as a song and dance team that headline at the New York Club “Floriano”. After their performances at Floriano they use their home as a canteen to entertain servicemen, reminiscent of many read more
Lana Turner — A Pictorial
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 7, 2011
LANA TURNER Feb 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995 “The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I’m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I’ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the read more
“Wings” (1927) Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 4, 2011
Mary Preston (Clara Bow): Do you know what you can do when you see a shooting star?
Jack Powell(Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers): No, what?
Mary Preston(Clara Bow): You can kiss the girl you love.
WINGS Theatrical Poster
Wings (Paramount Pictures 1927) is a silent film set during WWI. Wings read more
“Flying Down To Rio” – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Feb 2, 2011
Flying Down To Rio (RKO Pictures 1933) is known as the movie that made Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers into the renowned dance team duo they are still known as today. Astaire and Rogers were not the main headliners of Flying Down To Rio though. They were billed as fourth and fifth stars behind read more
Clark Gable: “King Of Hollywood”
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 31, 2011
“This ‘King’ stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like everybody else. There’s no special light that shines inside me and makes me a star. I’m just a lucky slob from Ohio. I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I had read more
Paw Pix: Joan Caulfield, Jane Powell, Angela Lansbury
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 30, 2011
Jane Powell — Dalmation Glamour Shot
Angela Lansbury and friend.
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Cyd Charisse: Beautiful Dynamite
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 28, 2011
Cyd Charisse was, in my opinion, the most beautiful and elegant dancer to ever grace the silver screen. She is also one of six women to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in a movie.
Fred Astaire in his 1959 memior, “Steps In Time”, referred to Cyd Charisse as “ read more
Louise Brooks (2)
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 27, 2011
Louise Brooks, nicknamed “Lulu” after her role in the 1929 silent classic, “Pandora’s Box”, is the ultimate 1920′s flapper. Born in Kansas in 1906, she began dancing at a young age with the Denishawn Dancers, and eventually made her way to New York City where read more
Pandora’s Box – Louise Brooks
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 24, 2011
In 1998, Roger Ebert reviewed Pandora’s Box, giving the film much praise and saying of Louise Brooks, “she regards us from the screen as if the screen were not there; she casts away the artifice of film and invites us to play with her.”
Pandora’s Box (1929) is a silent m read more
Marilyn Monroe
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 23, 2011
“Hollywood is a place where they pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul”. — Marilyn Monroe If you visit Classic Cinema Gold very often, over time, you will figure out Marilyn Monroe is one of my favorite subjects. Not her movies so much, as her life read more
Audrey Hepburn — A Pictorial
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 20, 2011
AUDREY HEPBURN May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993 Audrey Hepburn “How shall I sum up my life? I think I’ve been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, ‘Good things aren’t supposed to just fall in your read more
The Shop Around The Corner – Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 19, 2011
Klara Novak: [In her letter to Alfred] : ”Oh, my Dear Friend, my heart was trembling as I walked into the post office, and there you were, lying in Box 237. I took you out of your envelope and read you, read you right there.”- from The Shop Around The Corner.
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Cary Grant
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 17, 2011
Once told by a reporter, “Everybody would like to be Cary Grant.” The ever humble Grant replied, “I would like to be Cary Grant.”
In 1962, a few years before retiring, it was reported that he had once received a telegram from a magazine editor asking him “HOW OLD CARY G read more
Bebe Daniels (1)
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 14, 2011
“Now go out there and be so swell that you make me hate you.” ~ Bebe Daniels as Dorothy Brock speaking to Peggy Sawyer in the movie “42nd Street” (1933) Bebe Daniels, born on Jan. 14, 1901, was an actress and producer who got her start in Hollywood making silent movie read more
Sahara (1943) Humphrey Bogart
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 12, 2011
Waco Hoyt: “ I see you whittled them down a bit.”
Sgt. Joe Gunn: “Yeah…they whittled us down too.”
Sahara (1943 Columbia) is a hard, tough WWII movie set in the Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, with Humphrey Bogart as the leading star. Bogart plays tank commander read more
Actress Anne Francis Dies
Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 10, 2011
Anne Francis, the tall, cool, sultry blond who is best remembered for her roles in the sci-fi classic “Forbidden Planet” (1956) and as the sexy female private eye in the TV series “Honey West“(1965-66), died in a Santa Barbara, California retirement home on January 2, 2011, read more