Western RoundUp: Western Film Book Library – Part 6 It's been over a year since my last Western Film Book Library contribution, and I've made some interesting additions to my library in the meantime, so this seems like a good time for a fresh look at some Western genre books ! For those new to this topic,...
Silverscreen standards: bomb (1933) With her locks tousled, Lola wakes up to another day of chaos and early-morning studio calls. played differently bomb (1933) would be a tragic drama about the relentless pressure and manipulation faced by a young actress in 1930s Hollywood, and certainly that was a reality many stars, including Jean Harlow, knew all too...
Silence is golden: A closer look at it – the sheikh (1921) One of the big screen sensations of the early 1920s, the sheikh (1921) is the kind of silent film that is almost to easy to scoff at: it's melodramatic, it's cheesy, it's based on a flowery romance, and it contains a lot of the over-the-top...
Treffen Sie Professor George Edward Challenger, einen klugen und schroffen Mann mit einem abenteuerlichen Geist, aber unmöglichem Verhalten. Er macht seinem Namen alle Ehre, indem er eine Herausforderung für alle ist, denen er begegnet, während er gleichzeitig Kollegen und Feinde herausfordert. Er ist ein kräftiger Charakter, der eine „voll aufgeladene Batterie voller Kraft und Vitalität“ ist, wie...
Noir Nook: Femme Entrances - Part 2 Last month I offered four women who have given us some of the best performances in film noir: Cora Smith (Lana Turner) in When the postman rings twice (1946), Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) in double compensation (1944), Kathie Moffat (Jane Greer) in From the past (1947) and Alice Reed (Joan...
Marilyn Monroe - Her Life and Legacy Classic Movie Hub is pleased to share an exclusive interview - our friend and fellow film fan Nina Boski interviews Greg Schreiner, the founding member and President of Marilyn Remembered, the longest-running Marilyn Monroe fan club in existence today. In this interview, Greg talks about "Who is Marilyn Monroe?" Please...
"An innocent man has nothing to fear, remember." Alfred Hitchcock was nothing but a playwright. He loved taking trivial takes and flooding them with so much excitement that something as trivial as delivering a glass of milk or spying on a neighbor could be a matter of life and death. After all, he was the "master of...
Western RoundUp: Another Look at Western Movie Locations! It's time for another look at some western movie locations! This year I've visited several interesting film-related locations, starting with Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. There is a cave in Bronson Canyon that has been featured in numerous films; the most important western filmed there was...
Silents are Gold: The Rise Of The Underworld - 5 Gangster Movies From The 1910s Long before James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson made a splash in Hollywood, gangsters appeared on the American silent screen. While the "gangster" genre wasn't as well defined as it was in the 1930s, many of its familiar tropes - colloquial dialogue,...
Noir Nook: Femme Entrances Recently, while visiting When the postman rings twice (1946) on TCM, I tweeted about Lana Turner's first appearance in the film and said it was one of the best screen performances of all time. One of my followers suggested I do a poll to collect opinions on other contenders for this title and...
Nicki Nicole is letting an old lover know exactly what he missed out on. The Argentine singer just released...
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