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...
Silver Screen Standards: Wir feiern Screwball Die Welt kann die meiste Zeit ein trauriger, beängstigender Ort sein, und wenn ich mich von schlechten Nachrichten überwältigt fühle, gibt es bestimmte Arten von klassischen Filmen, die meine Angst lindern und mich daran erinnern, Freude anzunehmen, wo ich sie finde. Die Screwball-Komödie ist eines meiner Lieblings-Tonika für dunkle Tage, und...
Classic Film Journeys: Kay Kyser Kay Kyser a Kay Kyser's colleague of Musical Knowledge1940s Band leader and radio host James Kern Kyser was born on June 18, 1905 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His parents, Paul and Emily Kyser, were pharmacists. Kyser was one of six children. In the years that followed, Kyser attended the University of...
“We have to come up with something better. We cannot go on like this.” Film noir was an American phenomenon in the 1940s and 50s. It was built on the basis of US pulp writers and thrived on the sex appeal and allure of US actors. Still, the style proved so effective (and cheap) that it entered...
Noir Nook: The At Home Film Noir Festival In April of this year, I attended the TCM Film Festival, which was the first time in two years that the festival was an in-person event. It was a real pleasure to be back in Hollywood for my eighth personal festival - there's nothing quite like watching classic films...
The band's track "Future Days" has an important connection to the video game and the TV series Pearl Jam...
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