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 | Jun 12, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Dana Andrews, Pre-Code films, William Wellman
Oyez, oyez! Welcome to Day 6, the final day of our courtroom extravaganza! In the first five?days we saw, among others, posts on Hitchcock worth knowing better (The Paradine Case), lynching (Fritz Lang?s?Fury), Louise Brooks?s Lulu in?Pandora?s Box,?Kramer vs. Kramer,...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 20, 2016 | 1940s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Davis Raksin, Gene Tierney, Joseph LaShelle, Judith Anderson, Otto Preminger, Samuel Hoffenstein, Vera Caspary
?McPherson, if you know anything about faces, look at mine. How singularly innocent I look this morning. Have you ever seen such candid eyes?? ?Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she?d ever met. I was in complete accord with her on...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 13, 2016 | 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, Charlie Chaplin, Classic movies, Douglas Sirk, Genres, Jackie Coogan, John Ford, John Wayne, Musicals, New York movies, Romance, Silent film, TCM Film Festival 2016 Coverage, Vincente Minnelli, Westerns, Women's Films
And so we come to the last day of TCMFF 2016. I was already feeling it on Saturday, and of course Saturday?s events and pace and the least sleep yet went a long way toward creating a detour from my still excited but increasingly weary mind and my mouth, which began to...
by Lesley Gaspar | May 10, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Anna Karina, Charlie Chaplin, Classic movies, film noir, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Jackie Coogan, Jean-Luc Godard, John Ford, John Wayne, Miklos Rozsa, Musicals, New York movies, TCM Film Festival 2016 Coverage, Westerns
From my comfortable perch back at my friend?s house in North Hollywood, ?the intensity, mad dashes, glorious experiences, and occasional frustrations of TCMFF 2016 seem rather remote, Gentle Reader, but at this time a little over one?week ago I was watching?Dead Men...
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