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Day 16 of Noirvember: Dorothys You Should Know – Part I
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 16, 2019
Ever heard of Dorothy Hart? She has eight film noir credits to her name – but, sadly, it’s a name that not many noir fans know these days. In today’s Noirvember post, I’m determined to remedy that. Dorothy Hart was once described as “the most beautiful actress in Hollywood today,” and read more
Day 15 of Noirvember: Quote of the Day
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 15, 2019
Today’s Noirvember post shines the light on one of film noir’s most highly acclaimed features, Out of the Past (1947). A first-rate picture starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas, Out of the Past is fairly brimming with memorable dialogue and quotable lines. Here’s read more
Day 14 of Noirvember: Color Noir?
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 14, 2019
Some people say that in order to be film noir, a movie has to be in black and white. I don’t buy it. For me, it’s the feeling that truly makes a noir – the tone, the mood, that sensation of impending, inevitable doom. And that feeling can come over you whether it’s in black and white or in color. read more
Day 13 of Noirvember: Good Girls in Bad Company
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 13, 2019
The ladies of film noir, typically, are no ladies. More often than not, they’re duplicitous dames, mercenary molls, and corrupt cuties, not a lady in the bunch. Still, for every rule, there’s an exception, and there are numerous noirs featuring femmes who most decidedly do not fall into read more
Day 12 of Noirvember: What’s His Name? Sid Tomack!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 12, 2019
Sid Tomack. Remember that name. One of those actors with a face you might recognize but a name you may never even heard of, actor Sid Tomack appeared in only 34 movies during his 30-year career, but nearly a third of those consisted of film noir. Today’s Noirvember post shines the spotlight on this read more
Day 11 of Noirvember: Top 10 Noirs That Don’t Get Enough Love
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 11, 2019
Everybody knows about Out of the Past, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Killers, The Maltese Falcon, yada yada yada. But there are so many noirs out there that are also superb examples, but they never seem to come up when in discussions of movies from this era. Today’s Noirvember post pays tribute to read more
Day 10 of Noirvember: The Words of Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 10, 2019
He did a horrible thing. Words, words, words. I absolutely love the words of noir. Earlier this month, I did a post that featured real-life quotes from the performers who played our favorite noir characters. Today’s post spotlights the lines spoken by the characters themselves. Enjoy! “I’ve done read more
Day 9 of Noirvember: Noir City Chicago 2019
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 9, 2019
Noir City, in case you’re not familiar, is the world’s largest annual film noir festival, and is presented by the Film Noir Foundation. The event started 17 years ago in San Francisco, and is now held in cities throughout the nation, including Los Angeles, Detroit, and my sweet home, Chicago. On read more
Day 8 of Noirvember: Top 2 in ’52
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2019
In last year’s Noirvember celebration, I started a series where I looked at my top-rated films noirs in a given year, based on the final digit in the year – hence, my top 5 in 1945 and my top 3 in 1953. Today, I’m continuing that series and taking a look at my top 2 in 1952. I thought, at first, read more
Day 7 of Noirvember: Killer Trivia
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 7, 2019
The Killers (1946) is one of film noir’s most popular and best-known features, ticking many of the boxes of characteristics that have come to be expected of movies of this era, and chock full of a veritable who’s who of noir veterans: Burt Lancaster, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Albert Dekker, read more
Day 6 of Noirvember: Confidentially, Confidential
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 6, 2019
For each of the last two years, during my Noirvember celebration, I’ve included an article that focused on Confidential magazine. And here I go again. This popular scandal magazine, which promised to “tell the facts and name the names,” was first published in 1952 and featured all manner of tantaliz read more
Day 5 of Noirvember: The Major and the Minor Noir (Or, A Tale of Two Anns)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 5, 2019
The name of Virginia Huston is not one that’s readily known or often discussed by film fans. Yet, she had five films noirs to her credit, one of which is among the era’s best-known features. She’s earned her place in the sun. (Or the shadows, if you will.) Today’s Noirvember post takes a look read more
Day 4 of Noirvember: Real-Life Lines
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2019
If you know me at all, you know that I just love the hard-boiled lines that are scattered throughout film noir like falling leaves on an autumn day. But that’s not the focus of this Noirvember post. Today, I’m looking at a different kind of quote – the kind that was uttered by the actual men and read more
Day 3 of Noirvember: Happy Birthday, Charles Bronson
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2019
If you know anything at all about Charles Bronson, it’s probably as the craggy-faced, mustachioed actor whose primary claim to fame was his performances as a vigilante in movies like Death Wish (1974) and its four sequels. But prior to the crag and before the mustache, Bronson was known as Charles read more
Day 2 of Noirvember: Top Five Reasons Why I Love Sweet Smell of Success
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 2, 2019
For my money, one of noir’s most riveting films is the 1957 noir Sweet Smell of Success. Like all of my favorite noirs, I’ve seen this one numerous times, but every viewing is just as good as the last, and I simply can’t get enough of it. This first-rate feature stars Burt Lancaster as powerful read more
Grab your trench coat and get your gat . . . it’s Noirvember!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 1, 2019
Can you believe it? It’s Noirvember! The creation of Marya over at Cinema-Fanatic.com, Noirvember is an awesome month-long celebration of all things film noir, and I am pleased to say that this will be my sixth year participating in this event. That means that I’ll be posting film noir c read more
A Many Splendored Thing: The 2019 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival — Part 5
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Oct 30, 2019
The Descendants. As the calendar ticks ever closer to November, you know what that means: the passes for the 2020 TCM Film Festival will be going on sale soon – and it’s a perfect time for my next installment on this year’s film fest! Today, I’m covering one of my (many) favorite experiences, read more
The CMBA 10th Anniversary Blogathon: Top Five Film Noirs from 70 Years Ago
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Oct 17, 2019
There’s a reason why they called it “The Golden Age of Hollywood.” These days, if I were to decide on any given evening that I wanted to go to the picture show, I’d be hard-pressed to find something that was worth my time or money. But that wasn’t the case 70 years ago. The year 1949 saw the read more
Summertime and the Livin’ Is Easy: The 2019 Summer Classic Film Book Challenge
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Sep 14, 2019
I can scarcely believe that this is my seventh year participating in the Summer Classic Movie Book Challenge, hosted by Raquel over at Out the Past. I’m telling you, time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. (Thank you! I’ll be here all week! Tip o’ the hat to Groucho!) But seriously, read more
Mae Clarke: More than a Grapefruit in the Face
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Sep 8, 2019
I was recently a guest on a podcast, on which I was asked about Mae Clarke, and I am mortified to admit that, at the time, I couldn’t think of the name of a single, solitary one of her movies. This would have been bad enough if it had been just any classic movie star, but Mae Clarke?!? One of read more