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Birthday of the Week: Lillian Gish
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Oct 14, 2014
Born Lillian Diana de Guiche (Gish) October 14, 1893 to February 27, 1993 Autobiography A great read. Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and MeBy Lillian Gish, Prentice Hall, 1969 "I've never been in style, so I can't go out of read more
But-Cha ARE Blanche, Ya ARE in That Chair
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Oct 2, 2014
Eatcha lunch, it'll get cold. Seriously, which one is scarier? Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) I can't remember the last time I saw this picture in its entirety. I've seen the parodies and the drag homages a n read more
How to Work a Bead Curtain
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Sep 23, 2014
"Boys..." Beginning Middle End Rain (1932) I admit to confusing scenes from this picture with those that are really from Red Dust (1932) and Possessed (1931) and for what are probably obvious reasons: the time, the themes, and the asso read more
Birthday of the Week: Robert Benchley
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Sep 17, 2014
Born Robert Charles Benchley, September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945 Biography Robert Benchley: A Biography, By Nathaniel Benchley, McGraw-Hill, 1955 Advice for Getting Rid of Hiccups "Roll down a long, inclined lawn, snatching a mouthful of grass up eac read more
Tod Browning's Freaks
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Sep 13, 2014
Poster Copy: The Story of the Love Life of the Sideshow:SEE - Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?SEE - What sex is the half man half woman?SEE - Do Siamese twins make love?Louelle Parsons says, "For pure sensationalism, FREAKS tops any picture yet produced. It's more fant read more
Wednesday's Child: Pamela Franklin
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Sep 10, 2014
Born Pamela Franklin, February 3, 1950 in Yokohama, Japan. Cool. One Hell of a Debut I was probably 9 or 10 when I first got the bejeezus scared out of me by The Innocents (1961) even though I didn't completely understand everything that was going on at the time. I do reme read more
Birthday of the Week: Cliff Robertson
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Sep 9, 2014
Born Clifford Parker Robertson, III, September 9, 1923 - September 10, 2011 Not in Any Way a Biography Flowers for Algernon,By Daniel Keyes, Bantam, 1970Made into the film Charly (1968), for which won Cliff Robertson an Academy Award for Best Actor. A Butch read more
Sticks, Canvas, and Wire
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Sep 7, 2014
Howard Hawks stole Howard Hughes's aviators. Edmund Goulding stole Howard Hawks's aviation footage. Actors Who Served in WWI Melville Cooper (Watkins)Scottish regiment on the Western Front, prisoner of warDonald Crisp (Phipps)British Army IntelligenceBasil Rathbone ( read more
Build-Your-Own Blogathon: All Through the Night
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 23, 2014
"More here than meets the FBI." Top Cat and Choo-Choo Meet the Abwehr Is it just me, or has the line on Nazi people-purging always been that we didn't know about concentration camps until after the war? Imagine my surprise, then, when Humphrey Bogart reads an important clue read more
Birthday of the Week: Friz Freleng
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 21, 2014
Born Isadore "Friz" Freleng on August 21, 1906; died May 26, 1995 Essential Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, By Leonard Maltin, Plume, 1987 Try to Overlook Speedy Gonzales and Bosko I can only imagine what was in the drinking wa read more
Sex Sex Sex, That's All the English Ever Talk About
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 15, 2014
Mean Girls Grow into Mean Ladies Now in French! A cast... A story... A film...As you do not see once in your life Separate Tables (1958) Set in an English seaside hotel in the off-season, Separate Tables is a character study of the people who live there year-roun read more
Wednesday's Child: Jackie "Butch" Jenkins
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 13, 2014
Jack Dudley Jenkins, August 29, 1937 to August 14, 2001
Got In and Got Out. Finally. A kid with good parents. If you've seen a picture with Jackie "Butch" Jenkins in it (and you have), you'll remember him as the most natural child on the screen. In my (and Pauline Kael's) o read more
Birthday of the Week: Wendy Hiller
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 12, 2014
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller: August 15, 1912 - May 14, 2003
Weird Little Clip "Not Bloody Likely, I'm Going in a Taxi" The first actress to use "bloody" in a British film, Wendy Hiller was primarily a stage actress performing modern roles to great acclaim in Lo read more
I Thought Our Name Was "Potter"
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 8, 2014
The marble pillars got me.
Highlights This was to be Jean Dixon's last film. You will recognize her from My Man Godfrey or if you ever went to a Broadway play in the 1920s. You'll wonder why you haven't seen her in more pictures.Columbia Pictures originally wanted H read more
Birthday of the Week: Lucille Ball
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Aug 5, 2014
Lucille Desiree Ball, August 6, 1911 to April 26, 1989
Autobiography Love, LucyBy Lucille Ball, Berkley, 1997 Smartest Ditz Around I've always had a love/ hate relationship with I Love Lucy and the subsequent Lucy franchises (though mostly hate with read more
Wednesday's Child: Patty McCormack
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jul 30, 2014
Born Patricia Ellen Russo in Brooklyn August 21, 1945
Way better than the movie.
What'll You Give Me for a Basket of Kisses? A basket of "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhh!!"I didn't really know anything about Patty McCormack's post-Bad Seed work until j read more
Birthday of the Week: William Powell
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jul 29, 2014
William Horatio Powell, July 29, 1892 to March 5, 1984 Biography/Filmography William Powell: The Life and FilmsBy Roger Bryant, McFarland, 2006 Who Rocks the Thin Mustache? Sorry, David Niven. It's impossible not to love William Powell. I don't care if you've read more
Birthday of the Week: Hume Cronyn
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jul 19, 2014
Born Hume Blake Cronyn, Ontario July 18, 1911 to June 15, 2003
A Terrible Liar,By Hume Cronyn, Key Porter Books, 1991 How Did I Not Know He Was Canadian? Born in London, Ontario, to a well-placed family in the city, Hume Cronyn was sent to boarding school at a read more
Accidentally Hilarious: Johnny Guitar (1954)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jul 15, 2014
String 'er up!! Come for the Crazy, Stay for the Trucolor I believe I first saw this picture on a small black and white television, and it wasn't nearly the same experience as watching two angry women on different sides of 40 shoot daggers at each other in Trucolor. Johnny Guitar is read more
John Ford Blogathon: The Lost Patrol (1934)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jul 14, 2014
"I think I see something moving out there!" Poor Boris Karloff I had never seen The Lost Patrol until the other day, when I was (belatedly) preparing for The John Ford Blogathon. Filmed in the Sonoran Desert in Imperial County, California, every long shot of this wartime drama i read more