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...
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 | 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,...
by Lesley Gaspar | Mar 14, 2015 | 1950s, Blogathons, Classic movies
The Girl Can?t Help It?(1956),?Jailhouse Rock?(1957),?Les Girls?(1957) Two classic but revolutionary rock?n?roll movies and one golden-age Hollywood musical, made in the twilight of the genre and the studio system. If you know?The Girl Can?t Help It?it?s probably for...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 21, 2013 | 1950s, Barbara Stanwyck, Classic movies, Women's Films
There?s Always Tomorrow?starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Joan Bennett. Generally I?m down with Jeanine Basinger?s definition of a woman?s picture as one that centers on a woman and her experience, and this excellent film asks the question, Is it still a...
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