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Old Hollywood Book Reviews: Barbara Stanwyck – The Miracle Woman
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 30, 2012
Back with another edition of Old Hollywood Book Reviews: Knocking them back two books at a time (I doubt this will last long). It should be interesting to see if the lovely Natalie of In the Mood reads this as she is a huge fan of the actress in question today. Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman read more
Leading Man Tournament: FINALS
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 29, 2012
We’re finally here at the end of our Leading Man journey. Next Sunday one of these two men will be labeled “The Ultimate Leading Man!” It’s been a long road but we finally have a contender from the 1940s symbolizing the classic leading man and a contender from the 1980s to read more
I Want to Live! (1958) (1)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 29, 2012
I Want to Live! is another film I had earmarked for my TCM Top Twelve in May, nice to know I’m slowly working my way through something two months old. Either way, I Want to Live is cited as the quintessential Susan Hayward film and I had high expectations for it, especially considering it& read more
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 28, 2012
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood was on my TCM Top Twelve back in May. Here we are at the tail-end of July and I finally watched it and boy is this one of the better documentaries I’ve seen in a while, particularly on TCM. It’s an 80 minute, comprehensive documentary focused entire read more
Recasting Sixteen Candles
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 27, 2012
**This is my contribution to The Great Recasting Blogathon hosted by In the Mood and Frankly My Dear. I highly encourage you to check out the other contributions by going to In the Mood or Frankly My Dear.** I was incredibly excited to join in on this blogathon as the idea is so creative. HereR read more
The Divorcee (1930) (2)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 26, 2012
I’m reviewing all five films (and one documentary)(in the Forbidden Hollywood volume two box set: Review of Night Nurse Review of Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin, and Censorship in pre-Code Hollywood Having watched a pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck in Night Nurse, a film I enjoyed, let’s look read more
Final Poll Update for Semi-Finals Part Two
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 26, 2012
We’re down to the wire in these semi-finals. Sunday will declare our winner who will go head-to-head with Cary Grant. Let’s not drag this out, after the jump we’ll see where the numbers are right now and Sunday our winner will be declared.
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Old Hollywood Book Reviews: Spellbound By Beauty
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 25, 2012
Old Hollywood Book Reviews looks at a recent book detailing one of the great directors Alfred Hitchcock. Spellbound By Beauty by Donald Spoto is interesting in all fervant rants that have been unleashed on its Amazon page. I’ve read (and own) quite a few of Spoto’s books and I don&# read more
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 24, 2012
I’m reviewing all five films in the Forbidden Hollywood volume two box set: Review of Night Nurse Thou Shalt Not is a 2008 TCM documentary and DVD supplement on the Forbidden Hollywood volume two collection. I don’t generally watch DVD features, especially not on movies I rent consider read more
Leading Man Semi-Finals Part Two Update
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 24, 2012
Our first look at the numbers for the 1970s-2000s. Can you believe next week this all comes to a close? It seems like it’s been forever and really it’s taken the whole summer to find our leading man. We currently have a front-runner whose building a fortress around himself with t read more
Movie Confessions Blogathon (1)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 23, 2012
You could say I’ve done this to myself; that in my blind desire to do every blogathon that comes my way, it would someday bite me in the ass. So it is with the latest blogathon I was invited to. The amazing Nostra of My Film Views invited me to participate in his Movie Confessions Blogathon read more
Leading Man Tournament Semi-Finals: The 1970s-2000s
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 22, 2012
The last week before the finals! This time next week we’ll be debating the last two men standing before declaring our Leading Man! Yay! The four actors here are all representative of acting in general and are the last “movie stars” we have in this day of celebutantes and th read more
Leading Man Semi-Finals Part One Winner
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 22, 2012
Some action in the final moments of the semi-finals but we have a winner for the 1930s-1960s. This man will go on to the finals where he’ll square off with our 1970s-2000s winner. Our winner could be taking home all the marbles soon. Want to see who won? Find out after the jump. Much read more
Happy Birthday Natalie
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 20, 2012
There’s far too many pictures of Natalie Wood in the universe so the photos I’ve used are only a small portion showing off the beauty and grace of Ms. Natalie Wood. Natalie would have been 74 today and who knows where she might have been had she continued to make movies. Sadly, mode read more
Night Nurse (1931) (2)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 19, 2012
I was lucky to find the complete second volume of the Forbidden Hollywood collection so the next few reviews will be from that collection. Let’s start with the first film I watched, 1931′s Night Nurse. There’s several bloggers I know who aren’t fans of pre-Code films s read more
Entering the Hall of Fame and a Few Other Changes
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 19, 2012
A few updates for this morning. First off, I know I mentioned that new banner which I will be using as a header once the Leading Man Tournament concludes but I wanted something grander (and I ended up not saving the photos I used” so I came up with this. I think, if anything, this is a testa read more
Final Poll Update for the Semi-Finals Part One
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 19, 2012
The last update for the first part of our semi-finals! We’ve had a tie off and on throughout the week and while we have a leader now I’m not sure if we won’t have a tie-breaker poll coming up; that’s how close it is. Let’s look at the numbers and hopefully a winn read more
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 18, 2012
We’re moving from Madrid (if you read yesterday’s review) to outer space…or at least outer space by way of Arizona. Today’s film is the 1953 Ray Bradbury-penned sci-fi classic It Came From Outer Space. Hopefully you found it as impossible to read that sentence without usi read more
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 17, 2012
The Pleasure Seekers was a last second record simply because it has the beautiful Ann-Margaret in it. Ann-Margaret is an actress I love solely due to one film, the musical adaptation of Bye Bye Birdie! Altogether I’ve seen four of her films (this, BBB, Viva Las Vegas, and Newsies although read more
Leading Man Semi-Finals Update
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Jul 17, 2012
Our first semi-finals update and we’re in a heated dogfight between contenders. With only four nominees, and all of them tops in their category I’ve gotten more than my fair share of “This is too hard” comments. Let’s look at where the numbers are right now! There read more