by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 17, 2019 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Academy Awards, Charles Coburn, Classic movies, Thomas Mitchell
He’s one of the preeminent character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and, like Sydney Greenstreet and Marie Dressler, among the small club of performers who started hugely successful movie careers around age 60, which at the time was not “the new 50,” it was...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 16, 2018 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Academy Awards, Blogathons, Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton, Classic movies, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Jean Arthur, John Barrymore, John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell
“I didn’t know I was that good” ?what you said upon accepting your Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Stagecoach (1939) Dear Tom, or Dear Kid Dabb (Only Angels Have Wings, 1939) …Diz Moore (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939) …Doc Boone...
by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 11, 2018 | 1930s, 1940s, Blogathons, Charles Laughton, Classic movies, Claude Rains
Dear Mr. Rains, Or perhaps I should say Dear Captain Renault, …Jack Griffin (The Invisible Man), …Alex Sebastian (Notorious), …Adam Lemp (Four Daughters), …Prince John (The Adventures of Robin Hood), …Nutsy (Moontide), …Senator...
by Lesley Gaspar | Mar 4, 2018 | 1940s, Bette Davis, Blogathons, Casey Robinson, Classic movies, Claude Rains, Olive Higgins Prouty, Women's Pictures
“My mother didn’t think Leslie was suitable for a Vale of Boston. What man is suitable, Doctor, she’s never found one…. What man would ever look at me and say ‘I want you’? I’m fat. My mother doesn’t approve of dieting....
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...
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