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The 2017 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: Revisiting Adventures in Paradise: Part VIII
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 22, 2018
Dick Cavett during his interview — er, conversation — with Illeana Douglas. In a little over a month from now, I’ll be making my way to Hollywood to attend my sixth Turner Classic Movies Film Festival! So, while I wait for more films to be announced, and try to figure out the perfect war read more
Pre-Code Crazy: The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 11, 2018
If you tune in to The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) on March 24th because you’re a huge Carole Lombard fan, let me give you a tip. Lombard is in the film, but her role is small; she’s on screen less than 10 minutes, tops. But if you want to see a riveting pre-Code starring two first-rate actors read more
The 2017 TCM Film Festival: Revisiting Adventures in Paradise — Part VII
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Feb 25, 2018
Gene Tierney was an outstanding Laura — but she wasn’t the first choice. As the rapidly passing days on the calendar would indicate (can you believe it’s nearly March already?!??), it’s almost time for this year’s Turner Classic Movies Film Festival – and time for another installment read more
List o’ the Week: My Favorite Pre-Code Actresses
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Feb 18, 2018
Can’t get enough of Norma Shearer and The Divorcee. Today’s List o’ the Week is an easy one – my Top 20 favorite pre-Code actresses. Because I couldn’t possibly rank them in order of how much I love them (Stanwyck vs. Crawford vs. Blondell vs. Shearer!?!? Come ON!), I put them in alphabetical read more
The 2017 TCM Film Festival: Revisiting Adventures in Paradise — Part VI
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jan 24, 2018
The anticipation builds . . . It’s about that time – time for another installment in my monthly look at the 2017 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival! And this month I’m taking a look at one of my favorite experiences of the festival – the Hand and Footprint Ceremony featuring Carl Reiner and read more
Pre-Code Crazy: Millie (1933)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jan 15, 2018
I don’t remember the first time I heard the name “Helen Twelvetrees,” but for many years she was, for me, just an unfamiliar actress from the 1930s with an interesting name – like Gwili Andre or Jobyna Ralston. I never really thought about seeing her in a film, or even trying to. And then came read more
The 2017 TCM Film Festival: Revisiting Adventures in Paradise — Part V
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Dec 30, 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, it’s the perfect time for my next entry in my ongoing look at this year’s Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. And what better topic than one of the first events I attended – “Remembering Robert,” which was presented on April 6, 2017, exactly one month read more
Pre-Code Crazy: Two Seconds (1932)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Dec 7, 2017
Before I decided to choose Two Seconds (1932) for this month’s Pre-Code Crazy pick, I’d only seen the first five minutes of it – I’d never made it any further. Boy, was I a dope. This is a really good one, y’all. Trust me. What’s it about? To be honest, it was really hard for me to read more
Day 30 of Noirvember: Trivia Tidbit Thursday
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Dec 1, 2017
Young Ava. It’s hard to believe that another Noirvember has come and gone – it flew by like a bird on the wings of night. For my final post of this year’s month-long shadowy celebration, I’m serving up some trivia about some of our favorite noir performers. I hope you’ll lear read more
Day 29 of Noirvember: The Battling Bogarts
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 29, 2017
The beginning. Every film noir lover knows about the era’s favorite couple, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. They’re like shadowy elegant royalty, with almost a dozen noir credits between them. But before Bacall, there was Mayo – Mayo Methot, that is, Humphrey Bogart’s third wife, to whom read more
Day 28 of Noirvember: Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 28, 2017
A noirish conversation if I ever saw one. The more I see William Talman, the more I like him. That is, the more I see him outside of a courtroom with Perry Mason. That’s where I first met this actor and first grew to view him with equal parts dislike and disdain. But boy, his film noir performances read more
Day 27 of Noirvember: Remembering David White
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 27, 2017
1916 – 1990 Hear the name “David White,” and you might offer a blank stare and a shrug to indicate your lack of recognition. See a picture of David White, and you’re likely to instantly think “Larry Tate from Bewitched.” But not me. I summon up a vision of Otis Elwell, that smarmy, unscrupulou read more
Day 26 of Noirvember: City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 26, 2017
I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it. I can’t exactly put my finger on what it was that took such a hold of me – maybe it’s the way it opens with a voiceover by the city itself. (“I am the city . . . I am the voice, the heartbeat of this giant, sprawling, sordid and beautiful, read more
Day 25 of Noirvember: The Great Flamarion (1945)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 25, 2017
A pal I met through the World Wide Web sent me a DVD of this movie, and it literally sat languishing in my home for years before I decided to check it out. Boy, what a bonehead! First off, the film stars director-turned-actor-turned pulp fiction writer Erich Von Stroheim (perhaps best known as Max, read more
Day 24 of Noirvember: Human Desire (1954)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 24, 2017
These three. Without a doubt, Gloria Grahame is one of my favorite film noir actresses. Her sultry, sin-filled demeanor was practically made for this shadowy era of filmmaking, and in Human Desire, she doesn’t disappoint. Here, she’s Vicki Buckley, a sexy and duplicitous housewife whose feminine read more
Day 23 of Noirvember: Happy Thanksgiving!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 23, 2017
From Ann Sheridan and my family, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Cluck. And here’s a Noirvember Thanksgiving tip: A frequent question around this time of year is what wine to pair with a Thanksgiving meal. The answer most often given is Pinot NOIR. Pinot NOIR is a lovely light red that read more
Day 22 of Noirvember: Cry of the City (1948)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 22, 2017
Gritty and fast-paced, Cry of the City focuses on a mélange of distinctive characters, including Martin Rome (love that name), played by Richard Conte, a small-time hood who has recently added the murder of a cop to his long list of misdeeds; Teena (Debra Paget), Rome’s unflaggingly steadfast girlfr read more
Day 21 of Noirvember: Remembering Lee Patrick
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 21, 2017
With Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. She was Effie Perine in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Maggie Biederhof in Mildred Pierce (1945). Elvira Powell in Caged (1950). Lee Patrick could do it all. Undeniably talented but woefully underrated, Patrick died on today’s date in 1982, just one day before her 81st read more
Day 20 of Noirvember: Where Danger Lives (1950)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 20, 2017
One of my favorite guilty cinematic pleasures is Where Danger Lives. It stars Robert Mitchum as Jeff Cameron, a compassionate doctor who becomes involved with a mysterious woman by the name of Margo Lannington (Faith Domergue) after she’s brought to his hospital following a suicide attempt. Before read more
Day 19 of Noirvember: Dark Corner Performers
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 19, 2017
It happens with noir like every other type of movie. You see an actor in a film. You’ve seen him before, probably many times before. But who is he? What’s his name? Who knows?!? Today’s Noirvember post takes a look at a few of these “dark corner performers,” a term coined by Senior Writer read more