by Lesley Gaspar | 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...
by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 19, 2015 | 1940s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Romance, Wendy Hiller
Joan (Wendy Hiller) is so bent on getting to Kiloran she doesn’t realize she’s already there. Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), the laird of Kiloran, is as likely to be called Kiloran as Torquil. I Know Where I?m Going (1945) gets under people’s...
by Lesley Gaspar | Sep 24, 2015 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Classic movies, Dickie Moore, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code films, Shirley Temple
TCM?s tribute to Dickie Moore starts this morning at 6:15 a.m. Dickie Moore?was one of those very rare people you can watch grow up onscreen, starting when he was 11 months old. That?s when he made his screen debut, playing John Barrymore as a baby in?Beloved...
by Lesley Gaspar | Sep 20, 2015 | 1940s, Bernard Herrmann, Blogathons, Classic movies, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rex Harrison, Romance, Women's Films
??Where have you been all my life?? That?s how I feel when I see a movie for the first time and fall totally in love with it.?The Ghost and Mrs. Muir?was a movie I had certainly heard of, but I knew the title from the Hope Lange TV series of the same name in the...
by Lesley Gaspar | Sep 14, 2015 | 1930s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Pre-Code films, William Wellman
William Wellman directed five movies in 1931, and?Safe in Hell?was the last of them. The movie was made under the same conditions as the other four, pretty much the same as several hundred others released that year by Hollywood studios. The mass production methods...
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