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Day Nine of Noirvember: Quote of the Day
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 9, 2018
“Young woman, either you have been raised in some incredibly rustic community, where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from the common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct. Or possibly both.” — Clifton Webb in L read more
Day Eight of Noirvember: Trivia Thursday
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2018
What a difference a meal makes. If you know anything about me, you know I love trivia! Today’s Noirvember post offers a few tidbits about some of my favorite noir films and performers . . . This Gun for Hire (1942), starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, was remade in 1957 as Short Cut to Hell. read more
Day Seven of Noirvember: Jack Palance Gets the Confidential Treatment
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 7, 2018
During last year’s Noirvember observance, one of my posts focused on the scandal rag called Confidential and three film noir femmes – Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, and Ava Gardner — who received the “star treatment.” This year, I flipped the pages of my Confidential magazine collection read more
Day Six of Noirvember: Quote of the Day
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 6, 2018
“The biggest mistake I made before was shooting for peanuts. Five years have taught me one thing: any time you take a chance, you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk, ’cause they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.” & read more
Day Five of Noirvember: List o’ the Week — My Favorite Noir Titles
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 5, 2018
As if I needed something else to love about film noir, I recently realized that I just love noir’s creative and unique titles. So today’s Noirvember post serves up a list of my Top 20 film noir titles. What are some of your favorites? Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (1948) — Burt Lancaster, Joan read more
Day Three of Noirvember: Laura Trivia
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2018
In love with a woman he’d never met. One of my many favorite noirs is 20th Century-Fox’s Laura (1944), which focuses on the efforts of police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) to find the killer of the title character, played by Gene Tierney. Among those questioned in the investiga read more
Day Four of Noirvember: The Noirish Life of Gig Young
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2018
Today’s Noirvember post peers inside the shadowy life of actor Gig Young, who was born Byron Elsworth Barr on today’s date in 1913 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The film and TV star was bitten by the acting bug while in high school and later landed a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playho read more
Day Two of Noirvember: Top Five in ’45
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2018
Everybody raves about all the great noirs that were released in 1947 – Out of the Past, Body and Soul, Nightmare Alley, T-Men, yada yada yada – it was a completely stupendous and totally awesome year for noir. But 1947 wasn’t the only year that gave us a slate of memorable noirs; every year during read more
Happy Noirvember! (Or, here we go again . . .)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 1, 2018
What’s Noirvember? It’s a month-long celebration of all things noir, started by Marya over at Cinema-Fanatic.com. I can scarcely believe it, but this is my FIFTH year participating in this awesomely dark event, and I can hardly wait to get started! I hope you’ll join me every step of the read more
The 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Still More Adventures in Paradise — Part III
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Oct 8, 2018
Now that the dates for the 2019 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival have been announced (April 11-14, 2019!!), I think it’s a great time for another installment in my ongoing look at this year’s event. On the second day of the event, I was faced with one of many time slots that featured numerous read more
Pre-Code Crazy: West of Broadway (1931)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Oct 7, 2018
In the four years that Kristina and I have been recommending films for our Pre-Code Crazy series, I’ve never quite experienced a month like this one! October is a notoriously difficult month for me to identify a film, what with all the horror pictures crowding the TCM schedule, and I’m usually left read more
Hot Fun in the Summertime: The 2018 Summer Classic Film Book Challenge
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Sep 16, 2018
Outdoor concerts. Noir City Chicago. Cold lemonade on the back porch. And the Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge! I am delighted to share that I’ve been participating in this awesome event, the brainchild of Raquel over at Out of the Past, for six straight years now! And I’m here to tell read more
The 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Still More Adventures in Paradise — Part II
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 16, 2018
Cicely Tyson. Legend. It’s about that time . . . time for the next installment of my coverage of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival 2018! One of the many memorable events from my festival experience this year was the hand and footprint ceremony for actress Cicely Tyson, held in the forecourt read more
Audrey Totter Day: TCM Summer Under the Stars
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 1, 2018
Day 6: Miss Audrey Totter All things considered, I have to say that August is one of my favorite months of the year. The weather is still undeniably warm – nary a hint of the Chicago winter lurking just around the corner. There’s the slightest bit of calm before the storm at my job, before the new read more
The 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Still More Adventures in Paradise
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jul 6, 2018
The participants in this year’s ‘So You Think You Know Movies’ contest. You can see me on the left, with a white shirt and a hat. read more
List o’ the Week: Movies I Don’t Get
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jun 16, 2018
A few weeks ago, I ran into an old friend, who happens to be one of my (very) few “real-life” friends who has any interest whatsoever in classic movies. We got to talking about some films he’d seen recently, which had been recommended to him – The Third Man and How Green Was My Valley. He gave read more
Pre-Code Crazy: The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jun 3, 2018
Harding, Howard, and Loy I think I’ve made it clear on these pages that I’m a big Ann Harding fan. Her performances in Double Harness and When Ladies Meet rate among my all-time favorites. And she delivers again in my Pre-Code pick for this month, The Animal Kingdom (1932), co-starring Leslie Howard read more
Pre-Code Crazy: Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 8, 2018
The opening scene of Mary Stevens, M.D., my pre-Code pick of the month, offers a perfect illustration of the bad-ass pre-Code dame. As the film begins, an ambulance is called to a tenement apartment on a crowded, bustling street. A frantic resident (Harold Huber) stands at the top of the stairs, urg read more
Cinematic Paradise: The 2018 TCM Film Festival
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 22, 2018
It’s hard to believe that in just a few short days I’ll be winging my way to Hollywood for my sixth trip to the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival – but it’s true! As always, I’ll be sending out messages during the event via Facebook and Twitter, and providing year-round coverage with monthly read more
Little-Known Gems: Wicked Woman (1953)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 16, 2018
Don’t you love this shot? You’re going to love this movie even more. Even classic film lovers who aren’t film noir aficionados have heard of such classics as Double Indemnity, Laura, and Out of the Past, am I right? But what of those low-budget Bs that no one ever talks about? The ones read more