Happy Halloween...

Happy Halloween...

Oktober 31, 2011
Dillinger

These two mugs are hiding out, on the lam with Dillinger from this post .   A jack-o-lantern can make even desperate criminals seem somehow ...

Split Second - 1953

Split Second - 1953

Oktober 27, 2011
Alexis Smith, Arthur Hunnicutt, Dick Powell, Frank DeKova, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Paul Kelly, Richard Egan, Robert Paige, Split Second, Stephen McNally

Split Second (1953) straddles the portal from 1940s film noir to 1950s paranoia genre, and we can see an era turning before our eyes. It al...

The Unknown - 1927

The Unknown - 1927

Oktober 24, 2011
Joan Crawford, John George, Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, The Unknown, Tod Browning

Obsession. Sadism. Phobia. Panic. We’re going to slide into Halloween this week with some monsters. With all due respect to fans of movies a...

John Huston - Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

John Huston - Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

Oktober 20, 2011
book review, John Huston

“John Huston - Courage and Art” is a new biography of the larger-than-life Hollywood director (and writer, and sometimes actor) by Jeffrey M...

Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur

Oktober 17, 2011
A Lady Takes a Chance, Fred Allen, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, radio shows

This is the 111th anniversary of the birth of Jean Arthur. The clips below might help to illustrate her unique quality of preoccupied self k...

Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith

Oktober 13, 2011
Alexis Smith, Barbara Rush, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Craig Stevens, Here Comes the Groom, Jack Warner, Night and Day, Paul Newman, San Antonio, The Age of Innocence, The Young Philadelphians

Alexis Smith had a rare opportunity to stretch her acting muscles in “The Constant Nymph” (1943), discussed here in Monday’s post. She rema...

The Constant Nymph - 1943

The Constant Nymph - 1943

Oktober 10, 2011
Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Boyer, Charles Coburn, Edmund Goulding, Joan Fontaine, Joyce Reynolds, May Whitty, Montagu Love, Peter Lorre, The Constant Nymph

“The Constant Nymph” (1943) recently premiered on TCM. It would be interesting to get TV ratings data for that night. A film so long tangled...