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 | 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 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...
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