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Eleanor Powell on Television
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 21, 2011
I thought I'd celebrate Eleanor Powell's birthday with a couple of great performances after her big studio heyday.
Here's Powell in a performance from All-Star Revue in 1952. At forty-years-old, eight years after her last movie appearance, she is still light on her feet and precise in her movement read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 20, 2011
Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, the prissy bitch.
-Mabel Normand, to the press
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 18, 2011
This is a great post about Simone Simon with lots of pics. She must have the cutest nose ever photographed--
My Love of Old Hollywood
An interesting review of The Sleeping Tiger (1954), with Dirk Bogarde and Alexis Smith-- Another Old Movie Blog
RIP Karl Slover, one of the last remaini read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 16, 2011
This is an interesting analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s casual, simple style--
The Guardian
Leonard Maltin describes what sounds like an amazing program of classic Hollywood star home movies. I’d love it if something like this were available on DVD--
Movie Crazy
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 14, 2011
Java does a fantastic job describing her experience seeing West Side Story (1961) in a theater. It’s all about the details you see on the big screen that can be lost on television.--
Java’s Journey
I feel sorry for this contestant on Jeopardy who didn’t know who Joan Fontain read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 13, 2011
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
-Mae West
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 12, 2011
Grace Kelly (1929-1982)
Kim Hunter (1922-2002)
Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977)
Jack Oakie (1903-1978)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 11, 2011
This tribute to five movie costumes is interesting because it links the outfits with their characters so well--
The Girl With the White Parasol
The Criterion Collection is now on iTunes--
/Film
The Tenth Victim (1965): a mod comedy about killing for sport. It’s more goofy than d read more
Book Review-- John Huston: Courage and Art
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 10, 2011
John Huston: Courage and Art
Jeffrey Meyers
Random House/ Crown Archetype
2011
John gets bored easily. He needs new people to feed on all the time. The desert is littered with their bones. –wartime colleague Jules Buck
For Huston, life was a big game and he played it to the fullest. -ex-wif read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 9, 2011
Here are a couple of vintage scandal sheet pieces from a 1956 edition of Exposed magazine. I couldn’t quite read it all, but it looks like Lana Turner threw a whiskey bottle through a plate glass window in one of them. The layouts are great-- Where Danger Lives
This is a nice tribute to Nata read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 7, 2011
Congratulations to Monty of All Good Things for reaching his second blog anniversary and Ivan of Thrilling Days of Yesteryear for climbing to year eight! Good work guys. It isn’t easy to keep a blog going, and you two do a fine job of it.
Laura covers the grand opening of the read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 6, 2011
Always make an audience suffer as much as possible.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 5, 2011
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)
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Roy Rogers (1911-1998)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 4, 2011
I’m glad to see that The Love Machine (1971) is now available on DVD. I’ve always wondered what a movie with John Philip Law, Jackie Cooper and Robert Ryan would be like-- Movie Morlocks/TCM
Even more movie memorabilia auctions. These include the dress Audrey Hepburn wore when she won read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 2, 2011
The sad, mysterious story of Ramon Novarro’s murder on Halloween Eve and a brief review of his career-- Alt Film Guide
Time for the bi-annual Criterion Collection sale at Barnes and Noble!-- Criterion Cast
It doesn’t surprise me that Noel Coward writes the best you go girrrrrl letter read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 31, 2011
All about that notorious War of the Worlds radio broadcast— The Sheila Variations
10 scary scenes from classic movies. I agree with Clara on many of these picks-- Via Marguta 51
Capsule reviews of some great “old dark house” flicks-- Acidemic
The Alfred Hitchcock tournam read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 30, 2011
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
-John Barrymore
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 28, 2011
Bela Lugosi’s cape is up for auction. He saved it for his son. I wonder if he meant for him to sell it?-- IMDB
This is a conversation I would love to hear— If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . .
I'm so curious about this new Three Stooges movie. Not theater curious, DVD curious-- / read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 26, 2011
A history of the replay. What an interesting idea to explore. I love the description of Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear (1952)-- Observations on Film Art
Lovely pics of Deanna Durbin’s Hollywood home-- Time Machine to the Twenties
A nice tribute to the music of Uninvited (1944)-- The Lady Eve read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 24, 2011
This is a thoughtful review of Dear Cary: My Life With Cary Grant. I liked the comparison with Jennifer Grant’s book-- Sittin' on a Backyard Fence
Here’s a nice review of the difficult-to-find pre-code Laughter (1930) with Nancy Carroll and Fredric March-- Movie Classics
A couple of read more