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As much as I love, and as many times as I’ve seen, Dinner at Eight (1933), I was astonished when I realized that I’d never written about it here. So when I was reviewing TCM’s pre-Code offerings for June and spied this first-rate feature on the list, I instantly knew that it would be my choice read more

Speakeasy source  It’s the final day of the Great Villain Blogathon 2016. Before you peruse today’s huge and diverse group of movie nasties, your hosts, Ruth of Silver Screenings, Karen of Shadows & Satin, and Kristina of Speakeasy want to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part, read more

Silver Screenings We’re having a dastardly good time here at the Great Villain Blogathon. What’s not to love about the impressive variety of films and villains? Below are today’s posts. If you upload your post later this evening, never fear! We will include it in tomorrow’s recap, over at read more

Hi, ho, villain-lovers! It’s Day 5 of The Great Villain Blogathon 2016, and we’re not slowing down! Read on to check out today’s crop of baddies! And if you upload your post later this evening, don’t sweat it! We will include it in tomorrow’s recap, over at Speakeasy. Enjoy! read more

Speakeasy The big bad blogathon celebrating cinema’s greatest villains brings you another day of dastardly dudes and dames doing dirty deeds. Please enjoy today’s examinations of evil. If you post your entry later this evening, don’t worry, we have a particular set of skills and will use them read more

Day 2 of the Great Villain Blogathon was a day filled with malefactors, wrongdoers, scoundrels and lowlifes. Not to mention brutes, bullies, ruffians, rapscalllions, miscreants, monsters, and just plain meanies! And you know what? We love it! Read on to check out the totally awesome entries served read more

When Rick over at Classic Film and TV Café announced his 5 Movies on an Island Blogathon in honor of National Classic Movie Day, I was on it like a duck on june bug! I dearly love a good list, and one of my many pleasures in life is to compile lists of favorite classic films. I thought that coming read more

Silver Screenings Wow! We’re off to an incredible start to the 2016 Great Villains Blogathon! If you upload your entry later this evening, don’t worry – it will be included in tomorrow’s recap. This blogathon will bring you a wealth of villains from almost every genre in classic and modern read more

It’s not too late to get on board!! Speakeasy View original post 112 more words ~ by shadowsandsatin on May 11, 2016. Posted in Uncategorized Stuff read more

When I viewed this month’s TCM “Now Playing” Guide and saw that Double Harness was airing, I knew in a flash that it would be my Pre-Code Crazy pick for May. Not only is it a first-rate pre-Code that stars two of my favorite performers, but it was also screened at the 2016 Turner Classic Movies read more

It was the best of times, it was the best of times. Again. The 2016 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, California, was the bomb dot com. The bomb diggity. It was off the chain. Off the hook. Off the heezy. For sheezy. If you know what I mean. This year marked my fourth time attending read more

The red carpet. (It’s under there somewhere!) The adventure continues . . . At the last two TCM Film Festivals, I had an “Essential” pass, which allowed me to walk the red carpet for the opening night film. For this event, you get all gussied up and kind of rub elbows with the star read more

There ought to be a word for being so late that you’re not even considered late anymore. That would be me, writing about the 2015 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. (Yes, you read that correctly. 2015.) I’m not even going to bother to give excuses on why it has taken me more than a year to write read more

“We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces.” An interesting quote in a film that’s chock-full of writers, am I right? Sunset Boulevard (1950) tells the tale of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), faded silent film star who lives in a world built on the shaky foundation of yesterday’s fame. By sheer read more

Arthur Kennedy was once described as “one of the subtlest American supporting actors, never more so than when revealing the malice or weakness in an ostensibly friendly man.” But while he was certainly acknowledged for his undeniable talent and versatility, he might also – unfortunately – be read more

On the surface, my Pre-Code crazy pick for this month doesn’t seem to have a whole heck of a lot of pre-Codiness going on. A Farewell to Arms (1932), based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway and starring Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper, tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers – an American ambulan read more

The first time I saw Clarence Muse in a movie was in 1972, in the all-black western, Buck and the Preacher, starring Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. He portrayed a respected, elder member of a wagon train bound for a new territory, who was able to foretell the future by reading a bag of bleached read more

Speakeasy The big bad blogathon celebrating cinema’s greatest villains is back! View original post 178 more words ~ by shadowsandsatin on March 15, 2016. Posted in Uncategorized Stuff read more

I have to be honest – my Pre-Code Crazy pick for this month, The Purchase Price (1932), is not exactly one of those films that makes me all ga-ga and gooey inside. But while I can’t say that I count it among my favorite pre-Codes, it does star Barbara Stanwyck and, really, what else do you need? read more

Beautiful, talented, and vivacious, Jean Harlow was born on March 3, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri. TCM is celebrating the life of this actress on Thursday, March 3rd with nine (count ’em — NINE!!) back-to-back Harlow features. Do yourself a favor and set your DVD player (or your VCR if read more