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• Old Hollywood Haunts: A Birthday Remembrance for the Brown Derby on Vine...

  

  I lived in Hollywood, once upon a time, on Poinsettia between Fountain and Santa Monica Blvd., not far from Melrose. It was the early '80s and I was working at ... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• WILSON (1944), Darryl F. Zanuck's Forgotten Campaign for World Peace

  

  It was August 1944 and World War II was advancing toward its cataclysmic end when 20th Century Fox launched a heavily promoted biographical spectacular, Darryl... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Marcel Dalio: What a (French) Character!

  

  This is my entry for the annual What a Character! blogathon hosted by Paula at Paula's Cinema Club, Aurora of Once Upon a Screen and Kellee at Outspoken ... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Gene Tierney Centenary, Pt. 2: "...carried by the Winds and the Tides"

  

  Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920 Link to Pt. 1 Gene Tierney would admit that before she married Oleg Cassini, “I... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Gene Tierney Centenary, Pt. 1: "I Felt Luck Was with Me"

  

  Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920 ~Marlene Dietrich once said, “The relationship between the make-up man and the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The (Almost) Great McGinty

  

  There is Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby who aspired to an out-of-reach fantasy that was his vision of the American Dream. And there is Preston Sturges’s Dan McGinty... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• An Excellent Formula!

  

  THE HITCHCOCK VILLAINS This is my contribution to Maddy's 4th Annual Alfred Hitchcock blogathon, click here to learn more...~ In 1962, French film... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gimme Shelter: Classics for Comfort

  

  The Classic Movie Blog Association is hosting its annual spring blogathon from May 19 – 22. This year’s theme is “Classics for Comfort,” about films that... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 6 from the '60s for National Classic Movie Day

  

  It's May 16, National Classic Movie Day, and Rick over at the Classic Film TV Cafe is hosting his annual blogathon to celebrate the occasion. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Film Series Alert! "Simenon 2020" Launch Spotlights "Inspector Maigret"

  

  Great news! Midcentury Productions, the brilliant and groundbreaking little company that has so far staged six terrific French film noir festivals at San... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Many Loves of Elizabeth Taylor

  

  This is my entry for "The Wedding Bells Blogathon" hosted by Hometowns to Hollywood ~ She exchanged wedding vows for the first time at age 18 in 1950 and marrie... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Celebrating "The Shop Around the Corner" on Its 80th Birthday

  

  Today marks the 80thanniversary of the premiere of what has been called Ernst Lubitsch’s “most discreet tour de force of art concealing art,” The Shop Around th... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 2020 TCM Classic Film Festival Tickets On Sale

  

  The much anticipated 11th annual Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival is now gearing up, set to happen in Hollywood April 16 - 19, 2020. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Joyce Compton, What a Character!

  

  This is my entry for the fabulous What a Character! blogathon hosted annually by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken Freckled and Paula's Cinema Club...check these... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Noirvember: DARKNESS IN THE SIXTIES!

  

  Parlez vous French noir? Three years ago I discovered French film noir thanks to Don Malcolm and his annual "The French Had a Name for It" film festival in San... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bridging Old Hollywood and New: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

  

  This post is my entry for the Classic Movie Blog Association's Fall 2019 Blogathon. This year we're honoring the CMBA's 10th anniversary with "The Anniversary... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hitchcockian: François Truffaut 's The Soft Skin (1964)

  

  ...For the Vive la France Blogathon...35 years after his death in 1984, François Truffaut is usually remembered as the most successful of the youthful filmmaker... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• "Viva La France!" - the Blogathon, Day 1

  

  Welcome to Day 1 of the Vive la France! blogathon. Our participating bloggers have chosen an exciting range of films and film-related subjects to celebrate... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The French Roots of Noir: Two Films by Marcel Carné with Jean Gabin

  

  In 1946 four relatively recent American films inspired Italian-born French film critic Nino Frank to pen an article for the August 1946 issue of the newly... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Coming August 25: The Vive La France! Blogathon

  

  On July 14 the Vive la France! blogathon was announced. Set for Sunday, August 25, it will be hosted by this blog and Silver Screen Modes. The subject is broad... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES