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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 20, 2011
The motion picture is the people's art.
-Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 18, 2011
A short history of the Hollywood sign-- Slate
Zediva: a new competitor for Netflix-- Slog
I’m sad for Zsa Zsa Gabor. She will reportedly be in bed for the rest of her life-- IMDB
It's brief, but this is my favorite tribute to recently departed character actor Michael Gough-- Mondo 70
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 16, 2011
These upcoming Criterion Collection releases look amazing. I haven’t heard of a lot of them. How exciting!— Criterion Cast
It's wonderful how quickly the movie blogger community has gotten this Japanese movie/fundraising blogathon together. Millie does a good job capturing the ess read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 14, 2011
This is a nice mini tribute to the friendship between Shelley Winters and Marilyn Monroe. I love the first picture-- Time Machine to the Twenties
The original Psycho (1960) score is up for sale— IMDB
This is an interesting take on Old San Francisco (1927)-- Silent Volume
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 13, 2011
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
-Elia Kazan
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 11, 2011
Ben Hecht’s newly re-discovered and supposedly much better, dramatic 1964 version of a script for Casino Royale (1966)--a crappy movie that I can’t help watching over and over again-- /Film
Leonard Maltin visits Jean Harlow’s former home-- Movie Crazy
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 9, 2011
My guest post: Lisa Kudrow gets a quiz question about Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine— Olivia and Joan: Sisters of the Silver Screen
A review of the boring, pointless and hideously inaccurate Harlow (1965) with Carroll Baker (I’m still curious to see the Carol Lynley version)-- C read more
Happy International Women's Day!
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 8, 2011
I just realized this morning that it is International Women’s Day and I wanted to have an impromptu celebration.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite flicks with fascinating female relationships—be they strong and mutually supportive, comical, complicated, toxic or all of the abo read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 7, 2011
This is wonderful news: the Library of Congress has recovered ten lost silent films from Russian archives—and there will eventually be almost 200 of them!— NPR
Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson looking fantastic on the Oscar red carpet last week— Alt Film Guide
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Classic Birthdays (547)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 6, 2011
Rochelle Hudson (1916-1972) (I love this pic of Hudson.)
Lou Costello (1906-1959)
Guy Kibbee (1882-1956)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 6, 2011
When we climbed out of the airplane [in Beijing], to my amazement I saw about two hundred little Chinese Audrey Hepburns waiting at the airport. Roman Holiday was playing in China for the first time - thirty years after we made it - and attracting enormous crowds. Everywhere we went we saw little Au read more
Classic Birthdays (548)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 5, 2011
Dean Stockwell (75)
Rex Harrison (1908-1990)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 4, 2011
Have you been participating in Monty’s classic movie actress March Madness? Good fun!— All Good Things
Check out the Jean Harlow blogathon.-- The Kitty Packard Pictorial
Claudette Colbert shimmies in Cleopatra (1934) Ferdy On Films
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 4, 2011
Dorothy Mackaill (1903-1990)
Paula Prentiss (73)
Joan Greenwood (1921-1987)
John Garfield (1913-1952)
Shemp Howard (1895-1955)
Pearl White (1889-1938)
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Classic Links: RIP Jane Russell
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Mar 2, 2011
There have been a lot of nice tributes to Jane Russell, RIP:
I love this candid of Monroe drinking a Coke next to Russell on a break
Obituary/ The Guardian
Movietone News
Out of the Past
Leonard Maltin/ Movie Crazy
David Thomson/ The Guardian
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 28, 2011
For your Academy Awards hangover: Bette Davis and the Oscar-- Sunset Gun
Deanna Durbin goes to the Oscars-- The Amazing Deanna Durbin
There’s a clip here of Durbin and Fredric March performing The Good Fairy on the radio--after a darn good review of the 1935 movie with Margaret Sullavan read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 27, 2011
She didn't want to be famous. She wanted to be happy.
-Clark Gable, on Jean Harlow
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 25, 2011
Here’s an interesting list of books about the Oscars— The Guardian
This is a nice montage of all the best actress Oscar winners— Olivia and Joan: Sisters of the Silver Screen
I like this handy chart that breaks down all the major instant streaming services— /Film
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Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and the Kessler Twins
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 24, 2011
Have you ever heard of the Kessler Twins? They’re a German triple-threat sister act, beloved in Europe, and particularly Germany and Italy. The sisters enjoyed the peak of their fame in the fifties and sixties, though they are still adored in Europe today.
In this Scopitone video the Kessler read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 23, 2011
The final tally for the film noir blogathon and a thank you from Eddie Muller of the Film Noir Foundation--
Ferdy on Films
Self-Styled Siren
Laura provides a helpful classic movie fan’s perspective on the titles available on the new Amazon streaming service-- Laura's Miscellaneous Musings read more