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 | 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...
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 | Mar 5, 2016 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Genres
What do?Duck Soup,?Anatomy of a Murder,?The Story of Temple Drake, and?Adam?s Rib?have in common? Whether dramas, comedies, or tragedies, they?re all courtroom movies. What?s your favorite? Second Sight Cinema?and?Cinemaven?s Essays from the Couch?are pleased as punch...
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