by Lesley Gaspar | Feb 14, 2016 | 1930s, Blogathons, Clark Gable, Classic movies, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Pre-Code films, Romance, Victor Fleming
Mary Astor?s memoir?A Life on Film?is fantastic?she?s a wonderful writer, and her sharp observations on the industry and what went on behind the cameras are fascinating and incredibly useful to anyone who writes about classic film. Astor writes of being asked by a...
by Lesley Gaspar | Feb 8, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Blogathons, Buster Keaton, Classic movies, Louis B. Mayer, Pre-Code films, Silent film
Remember: If it bends, it?s funny. If it breaks, it isn?t. ?Lester (Alan Alda),?Crimes and Misdemeanors There was nothing funny about it when Buster Keaton broke. Keaton?s fall is legendary. Most of the time it?s told sketchily, and too often as if it were the end.?As...
by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 20, 2015 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Actors, Actresses, Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Laughton, Classic movies, Maureen O'Hara
TCM is honoring Maureen O?Hara (1920-2015) with a 24-hour tribute starting at 6am ET on Friday, November 20. I thought some commentary from herself discussing?her experiences shooting several of the movies in the TCM lineup would be add dimension to this day of...
by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 17, 2015 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Feb2016Blogathon, film noir, Pre-Code films, Romance
We?re live! Welcome to the?You Must Remember This? Blogathon! Kisses blistering and chilled, delirious and hard-boiled, Judas kisses, cartoon kisses, and of course the kiss-off? Here?s our Valentine?s Day celebration of screen kisses. New entries will be posted as...
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 | 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...
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