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 7, 2017 | 1930s Universal Horror, 1940s, Blogathons, Classic movies, film noir, Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet
This post is part of the 2014 What a Character! blogathon. To see more, click graphic (above).? ?Acting is a ridiculous profession unless it is part of your very soul.? ??Peter Lorre Even people who have never seen Peter Lorre in a movie know his nasal, dreamy voice...
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 | May 20, 2017 | 1930s, Blogathons, Child stars, Cinematographers, Classic movies, Dickie Moore
Yes. We do love each other. We?ve loved each other all our lives, and there isn?t anything anyone can do about it.? ??But?it isn?t real.? ?Who is to say what is real and what is not real? We?re dreaming true, a dream that is more than a dream.? ?Peter, listen...
by Lesley Gaspar | Apr 8, 2017 | Classic movies
Flicker Alley and a group of amazing sites for fans of silent and classic film are proud to bring you this giveaway for?Behind the Door?(1919) on Dual-Format Edition Blu-ray/DVD. Legendary producer Thomas H. Ince and director Irvin V. Willat made this??the most...
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