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Happy Birthday: Myrna Loy!
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Aug 2, 2010
Myrna Loy, was first noticed by Rudolph Valentino, when he went to Henery Waxman studio. Valentino, was looking for a leading lady for the film, Cobra. She tested for the role, but lost out to Gertrude Olmstead. Soon after she was hired as an extra for the film, Pretty Ladies. Rambova recommended read more
Julie Christie
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Aug 2, 2010
Julie Christie, is a British actress and sex symbol. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. My favorite Julie Christy film is, Shampoo(1975). Written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby. Cast: Warren read more
Happy Birthday Myrna Loy (1905-1993)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by monty on Aug 2, 2010
In honor of Myrna's birthday, here are my favorite Myrna films
1. THE THIN MAN (1934)
2. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
3. AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)
4. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948)
5. LOVE CRAZY (1941)
6. LIBELED LADY (1936)
7. THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER (1947)
8. DOUBLE read more
Basil Rathbone
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Aug 1, 2010
Basil Rathbone, performed in over 70 films, mostly costume dramas, swashbucklers, and horror films. He usually played suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, read more
My favorite Basil Rathbone Scene.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Aug 1, 2010
My favorite Basil Rathbone scene is from, The Mark of Zorro (1940). an adventure film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone.I'm a huge fan of movies with duel fighting. In this scene the action unfolds into a wonderful du read more
Summer Movies At The Beach - Gidget (1959)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by monty on Aug 1, 2010
I decided to kick off me and Dawn's summer beach theme this month with that 1959 classic Gidget, starring the ever lovable Sandra Dee.
On a jaunt to the beach with her bikini-clad girlfriends, tomboy Frances Lawrence (Sandra Dee) meets surfer Moondoggie (James Darren). She quickly becomes infatuat read more
This Month on Noir and Chick Flicks:
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 31, 2010
OK ! All you Surfer dudes and beach bunnies, it is time to rock 'n roll with the "Beach movies" that were all the rage. Surfing was big, dancing was all part of a day at the beach and some cool songs made their way onto our favorite beach films. So please help us celebrate the end of Summer with... read more
Deception(1946)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 30, 2010
Deception (1946). Directed Irving Rapper. The film is based on the play Monsieur Lamberthier by Louis Verneuil. The screenplay was written by John Collier and Joseph Than. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains who had also performed together in, Now, Voyager (1942).After a long separatio read more
Happy Birthday : Clara Bow!
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 29, 2010
Clara Bow will forever be the "It" girl… She was often cast as a waitress, a manicurist, or a salesgirl. The ever resourceful Clara would set her sights on a handsome man. Armed with her irresistible charm, Clara's character would rise above her problems and obtain her goal where she lit up t read more
Manhattan Melodrama(1934)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 29, 2010
Manhattan Melodrama(1934). Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, and Isabel Jewell. The movie also provided one of the earliest film roles for Mickey Rooney, who played the Gable character as a child. This is the first of 14 pairings o read more
Gia Scala
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 27, 2010
Gia Scala, studied acting at night and made appearances on radio shows and television quiz shows. At the end of 1954 she was signed contracts with both Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures. Using the stage name "Gia Scala", she made her first film, All That Heaven Allows(1955), with Jane Wyman a read more
Kim Novak DVD Collection!
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 27, 2010
Good news for Kim Novak Fans! The Kim Novak Collection, will be released August 3rd. Featuring the movies:
Picnic (1955). A story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who shows up in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and falls for a girl who is already spoken for. Cast: William Holden, read more
This Week on Noir and Chick Flicks: (8)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 26, 2010
This weeks Chick Flicks at the Moves: Blood and Sand (1922). Silent film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee(pictured above), and Nita Naldi. It was based on the Spanish 1909 novel Blood and Sand by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Click picture on read more
Too Kill a Mocking Bird(1962).
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 26, 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird(1962). Drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name. Cast: Mary Badham and Gregory Peck.In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. It also ranks twenty-fifth on the American Film Institute's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movie read more
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - My favorite Hitchcock film
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by monty on Jul 25, 2010
My favorite Hitchcock film of all time. It mixes comedy with suspense extremely well. Set in the Swiss Alps, a bunch of tourists meet at a village the night before boarding a train the next morning. A young girl named Iris (the excellent Margaret Lockwood) meets a young student named Gilbert (wonde read more
Happy Birthday: Amelia Earhart!
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 24, 2010
Amelia Mary Earhart, was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote books about her flying experiences and was instr read more
Caged(1950)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 24, 2010
Caged(1950). The movie was adapted by Virginia Kellogg from the story Women Without Men by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. It was directed by John Cromwell. Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde, Sheila MacRae, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick, Jane Darwell and read more
Perfect Strangers(1950)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 22, 2010
Perfect Strangers(1950). Comedy-drama. Director: Bretaigne Windust.Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan and Thelma Ritter. The screenplay for the Warner Bros. release by Edith Sommer was based on an adaptation of the 1939 Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play Ladies and Gentlemen by George Oppenheimer. read more
Newsreels of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 22, 2010
Newsreels of Ginger making imprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater 1939, receiving her Academy Award 1941, Fred dancing and introducing his sister Adele at the Stage Door Canteen in London 1944, Fred dancing on the streets of Paris 1944, Fred and Ginger at the Oscar's 1967 (mute) and more. read more
Quicksand(1950)
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Jul 22, 2010
Quicksand (1950). Cast: Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre. The film has been described as "film noir in a teacup".Auto mechanic Dan Brady, just told his friend Chuck that he has broken up with Helen Calder, when he notices the blond cashier, Vera Novak. Dan asks Vera to go out with him, but when he ret read more