Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Desember 26, 2011
Happy New Year

I hope the holidays are going well for one and all, and I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year, as I won't b...

Remember the Night - 1940

Remember the Night - 1940

Desember 22, 2011
Barbara Stanwyck, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Fred MacMurray, Fred Snowflake Toones, Georgia Caine, Preston Sturges, Remember the Night, Sterling Holloway, Willard Robertson

Remember the Night (1940) is a polar opposite to   My Reputation (1946), covered here in Monday’s post . The latter film feels darker in t...

My Reputation - 1946

My Reputation - 1946

Desember 19, 2011
Ann Todd, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Cooper, Esther Dale, Eve Arden, George Brent, Janis Wilson, Jean Arthur, Jerome Cowan, Lucile Watson, My Reputation, Scotty Becket, The More the Merrier

This week we have A Barbara Stanwyck Christmas with “My Reputation” (1946) and “Remember the Night” (1940). When you count in “Christmas in ...

Off Topic - Blog Tour

Off Topic - Blog Tour

Desember 18, 2011
off topic

Update on my blog tour for my novel "Beside the Still Waters" - a few more stops here: Interview at Blogher here. Interview at Bro...

World Without Blow Dryers - Answers

World Without Blow Dryers - Answers

Desember 15, 2011
Alexis Smith, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Jessica Grayson, More Than a Secretary, Rita Hayworth, Ruth Donnelly, Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes, trivia

The answers to our screen caps in Monday’s post “In a World Without Blow Dryers” - 1. - That’s Cary Grant toweling Rita Hayworth’s tresses ...

In a World Without Blow Dryers

In a World Without Blow Dryers

Desember 12, 2011
trivia

1 Time for more inane screen cap trivia.  Who in these scenes has the wet hair, and who is doing the towel-drying of same?  From what movie?...

Off Topic - Blog Tour

Off Topic - Blog Tour

Desember 10, 2011
off topic

This is just a brief update on a blog tour I've undertaken this week for my novel, "Beside the Still Waters."   I have a gues...

Uneasy Victors PT 4 - "Judgment at Nuremberg" - 1961

Uneasy Victors PT 4 - "Judgment at Nuremberg" - 1961

Desember 08, 2011
Abby Mann, Ben Wright, Judgment at Nuremberg, Judy Garland, Maximillian Schell, Ray Teal, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer, Virginia Christine, Werner Klemperer, William Shatner

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a perfect union of script, stage, and screen. In few other films is dialogue so completely depended upon to...