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Quote of the Week (191)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 23, 2011
Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
-Edith Head
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Classic Birthdays (529)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 22, 2011
Joan Fontaine (94)
Catherine Deneuve (68)
Constance Bennett (1904-1965)
Curly Howard (1903-1952)
Annette Funicello (69)
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Classic Links (122)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 21, 2011
RIP Barbara Kent, 1907-2011. At 103, she was the oldest living movie star I knew of--
IMDB, Self-Styled Siren, Immortal Ephemera
These pics of stars playing sports are a lot of fun. I love Jane Russell with the basketball-- The Silver Screen Affair
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Book Review-- Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 20, 2011
[We are] a lovely charming decadent hopeless couple. –Richard Burton
I don’t want to be that much in love ever again. . .I didn’t reserve anything. I gave everything away. . .my soul, my being, everything. –Elizabeth Taylor
I shall miss you with passion and wild regret. & read more
Classic Links (123)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 19, 2011
An interesting post about the shorts Buster Keaton made at Columbia near the end of his career-- Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
Here’s a chance to win a copy of the new Steve McQueen bio-- On the Marquee
Marvelous review of Crimewave (1954) with lots of screenshots. Can’t go wrong with read more
Classic Links (124)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 17, 2011
This post is about some of the great screen teams that never happened. I could have sworn some of these people did work together, because they are perfect pairings. Did Jimmy Stewart and Barbara Stanwyck really never work together? (I just checked; they really didn’t)-- The Girl With the White read more
Quote of the Week (192)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 16, 2011
Egotism--usually just a case of mistaken nonentity
-Barbara Stanwyck
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Classic Birthdays (530)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 15, 2011
Mervyn LeRoy (1900-1987)
Melville Cooper (1897-1973)
Jane Darwell (1879-1967)
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Classic Links (125)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 14, 2011
Check out Monty’s Alfred Hitchcock tournament-- All Good Things
This is an interesting series of comparisons between movie actors and the real life people they portrayed-- Blame Mame
A short bio of early movie actress Mignon Anderson. Love that name-- Noir and Chick Flicks
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Classic Links (126)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 12, 2011
This is an excellent, thoughtfully written post about The Constant Nymph (1943) with Joan Fontaine and Charles Boyer-- Another Old Movie Blog
Here’s a one minute clip from that newly re-discovered Hitchcock flick. Though it’s brief, it does offer a few glimpes of a couple of the m read more
Quote of the Week (193)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 9, 2011
I never said, "I want to be alone." I only said, "I want to be let alone." There is all the difference
-Greta Garbo
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Classic Links (128)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 7, 2011
RIP Charles Napier. I loved him best in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). He had a fantastic grin--Edward Copeland on Film , Moon in the Gutter
The trailer for My Week With Marilyn. Michelle Williams is a fine actress, but she doesn’t seem to capture the essence of Marilyn Monroe. I don read more
Classic Links (129)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 5, 2011
This is a fascinating report from the re-premiere of part of a Hitchcock film that was thought to be lost. There’s so much to soak in here: interesting anecdotes about Hitchcock, information about the process of tracking down lost films and detailed plot notes-- Alfred Hitchcock Geek
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Goodbye to Gerald and the Return of Classic Links
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 3, 2011
Starting up again with the Classic Links is bittersweet, because I got some sad news during my hiatus.
I was sorry to hear that Gerald of Laszlos on Lex passed this August. It was always a treat to get an email or comment from him, the only man I have ever described as a “gentleman blogger&# read more
Quote of the Week (194)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 2, 2011
In certain pictures I do hope they will leave the cinema a little enriched, but I don't make them pay a buck and a half and then ram a lecture down their throats.
-Billy Wilder
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Haiku: The Big Sleep (1946)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 30, 2011
What is happening?
It’s entertaining, who cares?
An intriguing pair
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Haiku: Vertigo (1958)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 28, 2011
If you can't take heights
Watch out for dames with dark twins
Who tell crazy tales
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Haiku: King Kong (1933)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 26, 2011
Beauty didn't kill
The beast who was torn from home
'Twas men setting sail
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Quote of the Week (195)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 25, 2011
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
-Groucho Marx
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Haiku: Charade (1963)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 23, 2011
She can't get over
How many names this guy has
Or that dashing cleft
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