by Lesley Gaspar | Feb 17, 2019 | 1950s, Academy Awards, Arthur Kennedy, Blogathons, Classic movies, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Vincente Minnelli
This is about Kennedy’s performance in Some Came Running (1958), directed by Vincente Minnelli. Kennedy scored his fourth Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Frank Hirsh, the embodiment of small-town small-mindedness and hypocrisy. I am...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 16, 2018 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Academy Awards, Blogathons, Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton, Classic movies, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Jean Arthur, John Barrymore, John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell
“I didn’t know I was that good” ?what you said upon accepting your Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Stagecoach (1939) Dear Tom, or Dear Kid Dabb (Only Angels Have Wings, 1939) …Diz Moore (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939) …Doc Boone...
by Lesley Gaspar | Mar 4, 2018 | 1940s, Bette Davis, Blogathons, Casey Robinson, Classic movies, Claude Rains, Olive Higgins Prouty, Women's Pictures
“My mother didn’t think Leslie was suitable for a Vale of Boston. What man is suitable, Doctor, she’s never found one…. What man would ever look at me and say ‘I want you’? I’m fat. My mother doesn’t approve of dieting....
by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 19, 2017 | 1930s, 1940s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Hollywood blacklist, Marsha Hunt, MGM
Last month, in October of 2017, Marsha Hunt began her 101st transit around the sun. She continues to grace our increasingly graceless planet, and while we were always lucky to have her, she seems even more precious now, when we are really in the soup. Miss Hunt is...
by Lesley Gaspar | 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 Lesley Gaspar | 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...
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