by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 5, 2020 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blogathons, Classic movies, Mary Astor, Pre-Code films, Silent film, Women's Pictures
Mary Astor is almost one-stop shopping for a classic film buff. She started working in her teens and was the sole support of her greedy, abusive parents, whom she eventually had to sue for her independence, so she checks that box (see Jackie Coogan, Baby Peggy, Dickie...
by Lesley Gaspar | Mar 4, 2018 | 1940s, Bette Davis, Blogathons, Casey Robinson, Classic movies, Claude Rains, Olive Higgins Prouty, Women's Pictures
“My mother didn’t think Leslie was suitable for a Vale of Boston. What man is suitable, Doctor, she’s never found one…. What man would ever look at me and say ‘I want you’? I’m fat. My mother doesn’t approve of dieting....
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 | 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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