by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 31, 2021 | 1940s, Bernard Herrmann, Classic movies, film noir, Orson Welles, Uncategorized
NOTE: Dear reader, I know you’ve all been in tech hell once in a while. Unfortuately, I have been all week, and while I won’t bore you with the dull, frustrating details, the upshot is, I got o photos for this post, so it is incredibly dreary to look at....
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 | 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...
by Lesley Gaspar | Apr 28, 2016 | Classic movies, film noir, TCM Film Festival 2016 Coverage
Greetings, gentle reader, from Hollywood! Here is a breathless post to begin my coverage of the festival, before I head out into Day 1. First stop: Karie Bible?s tour of Hollywood Forever, the cemetery where many classic film Titans found their final rest. That?s at...
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