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Noirvember Day 20: Sunday Words of Noir (Part 3)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 20, 2022
If it’s Sunday, it’s time to step into another shower of words from the world of noir. This week’s batch of noteworthy lines comes from the mouths of the femmes. Don’t forget your umbrella… “How can a man be so dumb? I’ve wanted to laugh in your face ever since I met you. You’re read more
Noirvember Day 19: Happy Birthday, Gene Tierney
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 19, 2022
While she’s arguably one of classic Hollywood’s most beautiful stars, Gene Tierney – in my opinion – doesn’t always get the acclaim she deserves for her acting ability. But she was outstanding in films like The Razor’s Edge (1947) and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) and turned in memorable read more
Noirvember Day 18 – YouTube Noir: Shakedown (1950)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 18, 2022
One of my favorite underrated noirs is Shakedown (1950), starring Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, and Lawrence Tierney. Until recently, I’d only seen it a few times, because the copy I owned on VHS was beyond lousy and barely watchable. But all that has changed! Shakedown, I discovered the other day, read more
Noirvember Day 17: Barbara Stanwyck Eyes
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 17, 2022
We all know about Bette Davis eyes. But what about Barbara Stanwyck eyes? Stanwyck is one of my favorite performers – along with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, she is among the three actresses I love the most. She’s talented, versatile, and beautiful – and she has an equally impressive collection read more
Noirvember Day 16: Who is Douglas Fowley?
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 16, 2022
Does the name Douglas Fowley ring a bell? If it does, it might be because of his portrayal of the apoplectic director in Singin’ in the Rain (1952). As for me, I know him from his appearances in five films from the noir era: Fall Guy (1947), Desperate (1947), Behind Locked Doors (1948), Armored Car read more
Noirvember Day 14: Trivia Tuesday (Part 2)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 15, 2022
Dive into a pool of trivia featuring your favorite femmes! Ann Blyth was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Veda in Mildred Pierce (1945). At age 17, she was the youngest actress up to that time to be nominated. As a child growing up in Snoqualmie Falls read more
Noirvember Day 14: One Average Joe in Search of a Clue
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 14, 2022
One of the character types commonly seen in film noir is the everyman – the law-abiding Joe Average whose life is turned upside down by a sultry femme fatale. He’s the guy that you find yourself screaming at from the comfort of your sofa, advising him to head for the hills, or at the very least, read more
Noirvember Day 13: Sunday Words of Noir (Part 2)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 13, 2022
If it’s Sunday, it’s time to serve up another heaping platter of memorable lines from the classic noir era. This time, we’ll hear what the fellas have to say. Hope you’ll enjoy what’s on the menu . . . “My, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.” Humphre read more
Noirvember Day 12: Oscar-Worthy Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 12, 2022
The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony will be broadcast four months from today, on March 12, 2023. I’ve been a fan of the Oscars from way back. I can’t remember when I first started watching it, but for more than 30 years, I’ve had a tradition before the show of watching my tape of “Oscar’s read more
Noirvember Day 11: Three From Kirk D
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 11, 2022
What movies come to mind when you think of Kirk Douglas? Spartacus? Gunfight at the O.K. Corral? The Bad and the Beautiful? Lust for Life? For me, without question, it’s Douglas’s body of film noir work. From 1946 to 1951, he appeared in a series of film noir features, serving up striking and memora read more
Noirvember Day 10: Western Noir – The Violent Men (1955)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 10, 2022
A couple of years ago, I discovered the “Western Noir” genre through a collection of movies airing on the Criterion Channel. According to author and historian Imogen Sara Smith, who introduced the films, the stories of Western noir could be “transported into an urban setting and fit right in as read more
Noirvember Day 8: Trivia Tuesday
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2022
Dive into some trivial tidbits about your favorite noir performers! Dorothy Malone was a bit of an overachiever at school (not that there’s anything wrong with that). She was salutatorian at her eighth-grade graduation and class president for six successive years. In high school, she was parliamenta read more
Noirvember Day 9: The CMBA Fall Blogathon – Movies are Murder!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2022
One of the many things I love about Twitter (and why I plan to hang around the platform for a long time to come) is the recommendations I’ve racked up for movies to add to my watchlist. Today’s post is about one of those films: The Scarlet Hour (1956). Earlier this month, one of my Twitter comrades, read more
Noirvember Day 7: Three You Should See
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 7, 2022
There are numerous well-known noirs that always come up in discussions about the era, like Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, Laura, The Killers, and the like. There are many, many more, though, that never get talked about, but are so worthy of mention. Today’s Noirvember post takes a look at three read more
Noirvember Day 6: Sunday Words of Noir (Part 1)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 6, 2022
If you’re a film noir lover, then you’re doubtless a lover of the great lines that are threaded throughout these features. You know what I mean – those lines that make you say “Whoa!” or break into peals of appreciative laughter, or rewind the DVD because you can’t beli read more
Noirvember Day 5: Noir Dame Deep Dive
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 5, 2022
The Breaking Point, released by Warner Bros. in 1950 and directed by Michael Curtiz, was the second screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel To Have and Have Not. The novel originally started as a short story, “One Trip Across,” published in Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1934. read more
Noirvember Day 4: No Femme Fatale Required
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2022
I’ve had many discussions about film noir in my time. Some of those conversations included statements from my fellow communicators that this or that movie couldn’t possibly be a film noir because it doesn’t have a femme fatale. Or an anti-hero protagonist. Or because it doesn’t have an urban read more
Noirvember Day 3: A Confidential Peek
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2022
One of my favorite topics for Noirvember posts in years past has focused on Confidential Magazine, a scandal-filled publication that, in its heyday, was printing a whopping five million copies per issue. The publisher of the magazine, Robert Harrison, was a former reporter on the New York Evening Gr read more
Noirvember Day 2: Dark Corner Performers — Harold Vermilyea
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 2, 2022
He’s one of those film noir actors whose face you’ve seen, but whose name you may never have heard. He’s a dark corner performer. Grey-haired and chubby-cheeked, with an unassuming air, Harold Vermilyea was a late arrival to the screen scene, and didn’t stay long – after making his Hollywood read more
What time is it? It’s time for Noirvember 2022!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 1, 2022
It’s November 1st, y’all, and you know what that means: it’s the start of Noirvember! The brainchild of Marya over at Cinema Fanatic, Noirvember is a month-long celebration of all things noir. And here at Shadows and Satin, I celebrate by posting every day of the month. This is my ninth consecutive read more