by admin | Oct 3, 2017 | 1940s, 1950s, Carol Reed, Cinematographers, Classic movies, film noir, Gregg Toland, Herman Mankiewicz, In, In Their Own Words, New York movies, Orson Welles, Tallulah Bankhead, Writers
Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man (1949) Joseph Cotten, who was born May 15, 1905, appeared in some of the best films of the 1940s, including Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Shadow of a Doubt, Gaslight, Portrait of Jennie, Lydia, and The Third Man. In...
by admin | Jul 10, 2016 | 1930s, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blogathons, Cinematographers, Classic movies, Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo, Irving Thalberg, John Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, MGM, Pre-Code films, Producers, Romance, Studios, Vicki Baum, Wallace Beery, William Daniels
“Grand Hotel…always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.” courtesy Pre-Code.com Grand Hotel took home the Best Picture Oscar for MGM in 1933, beating another MGM release, The Champ, as well as Samuel Goldwyn’s Arrowsmith, Fox’s Bad Girl, First...
by admin | May 20, 2016 | 1940s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Davis Raksin, Gene Tierney, Joseph LaShelle, Judith Anderson, Otto Preminger, Samuel Hoffenstein, Vera Caspary
“McPherson, if you know anything about faces, look at mine. How singularly innocent I look this morning. Have you ever seen such candid eyes?” “Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she’d ever met. I was in complete accord with her on...
by admin | May 10, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Anna Karina, Charlie Chaplin, Classic movies, film noir, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Jackie Coogan, Jean-Luc Godard, John Ford, John Wayne, Miklos Rozsa, Musicals, New York movies, TCM Film Festival 2016 Coverage, Westerns
From my comfortable perch back at my friend’s house in North Hollywood, the intensity, mad dashes, glorious experiences, and occasional frustrations of TCMFF 2016 seem rather remote, Gentle Reader, but at this time a little over one week ago I was watching Dead Men...
by admin | Feb 14, 2016 | 1930s, Blogathons, Clark Gable, Classic movies, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Pre-Code films, Romance, Victor Fleming
Mary Astor’s memoir A Life on Film is fantastic—she’s a wonderful writer, and her sharp observations on the industry and what went on behind the cameras are fascinating and incredibly useful to anyone who writes about classic film. Astor writes of being asked by a...
by admin | Feb 7, 2016 | 1960s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Nichols, Richard Burton, Shirley MacLaine
Elizabeth Taylor won two Best Actress Oscars, for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). The first she perhaps rightly dismissed as a pity vote. The second she won fair and square, and I hope it meant something to her. Until fairly recently I...
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