by Lesley Gaspar | Aug 12, 2015 | 1950s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Lee Garmes, Nicholas Ray, Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, Westerns
Summer Under the Stars presents Nicholas Ray’s The Lusty Men, part of TCM’s 24-hour tribute to Robert Mitchum “There never was a bull that couldn’t be rode, there never was a cowboy who couldn’t be throwed. You eat a little dirt if you have to. —Jeff McCloud Hayward...
by Lesley Gaspar | 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...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jun 9, 2015 | 1940s, Blogathons, Charles Coburn, Classic movies, George Stevens, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea
I Like a Man That Takes His Time ”You look like a high-type, clean-cut, nice young fellow.” What’s really hard with a movie this delightful is to write just about one scene, even a scene this great. A brief digression: I’m posting this an hour before leaving for...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 16, 2015 | 1960s, Blogathons, Classic movies, film noir, Jean-Luc Godard
Godard and Karina What happens in Alphaville, stays in Alphaville. Fifty years ago, during the coldest January the city had seen in years, Jean-Luc Godard and his crew took to the streets of Paris to film?Alphaville, une ?trange aventure de Lemmy Caution.?Godard was...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 11, 2015 | 1950s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Katharine Hepburn
The opening: The Mondrian carpet, the computer, clattering typewriter? the sprightly, lighthearted music tell us that it?s a comedy. Here is how I first saw?Desk Set: At about 2:30am after working a double shift, one at?Forbes?and another at?Newsweek, I got home,...
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