by Lesley Gaspar | May 20, 2017 | 1930s, Blogathons, Child stars, Cinematographers, Classic movies, Dickie Moore
Yes. We do love each other. We?ve loved each other all our lives, and there isn?t anything anyone can do about it.? ??But?it isn?t real.? ?Who is to say what is real and what is not real? We?re dreaming true, a dream that is more than a dream.? ?Peter, listen to me!...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jul 10, 2016 | 1930s, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blogathons, Cinematographers, Classic movies, Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo, Irving Thalberg, John Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, MGM, Pre-Code films, Producers, Romance, Studios, Vicki Baum, Wallace Beery, William Daniels
?Grand Hotel?always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.? courtesy Pre-Code.com Grand Hotel?took home?the Best Picture Oscar for MGM in 1933, beating another MGM release,?The Champ, as well as Samuel Goldwyn?s?Arrowsmith, Fox?s?Bad Girl, First...
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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