Dickie Moore (1925-2015), Lost and Found

Dickie Moore (1925-2015), Lost and Found

by | Nov 14, 2015 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Actors, Barbara Stanwyck, Blogathons, Child stars, Classic movies, Dickie Moore, Ernst Lubitsch, film noir, Howard Hawks, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code films, Shirley Temple

Where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved? ?H.I.,?Raising Arizona It?s an intense little face. The Cupid?s Bow mouth and tiny, turned-up nose sit beneath large, dark, deeply?serious eyes. Dickie wasn?t just cute, he was...
Newsreels of the Early 1930s: Two Huge Stories About the Two-Way Mirror Between Fact and Fiction

Newsreels of the Early 1930s: Two Huge Stories About the Two-Way Mirror Between Fact and Fiction

by | Jun 27, 2015 | Blogathons, Busby Berkeley, Classic movies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Louis B. Mayer, Newsreels, Pre-Code films, Upton Sinclair, William Randolph Hearst

Real life and entertainment, politics and policy. The Bonus Army?Herbert Hoover, FDR, and William Randolph Hearst,?Gabriel Over the White House;?Busby Berkeley and ?Remember My Forgotten Man? in?Gold Diggers of 1933 The movie industry?s successful smear campaign...
Strangers in a Strange Land Pt II: Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg?s Shanghai Express (1932) and The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Strangers in a Strange Land Pt II: Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg?s Shanghai Express (1932) and The Scarlet Empress (1934)

by | Apr 4, 2015 | 1930s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code films

Part II Deceit, Desire, and Survival: Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg?s?Shanghai Express(1932) and?The Scarlet Empress?(1934) A missionary wins the heart of a poetic warlord, a woman of mystery wins back her untrusting lover, and a promiscuous princess wins...
Strangers in a Strange Land: The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Shanghai Express (1932), and The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Strangers in a Strange Land: The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Shanghai Express (1932), and The Scarlet Empress (1934)

by | Apr 3, 2015 | 1930s, Barbara Stanwyck, Blogathons, Classic movies, Frank Capra, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code films

Here are three pre-Code films about women from the West who find themselves in dangerous situations in exotic lands (China in two, Russia in the other). The women are thrown upon their own resources, their ability to adapt and survive, with little or no support or...