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• Frank Sinatra in 1965: It Was a Very Good Year

  

  It was the age of "Yeah, yeah, yeah," Carnaby Street couture and "Bond, James Bond." The Beatles ruled the world of popular music, having launched the "British... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• "100 Years of Harold Lloyd" Comes to iTunes This Month

  

  Many a press release finds its way into Lady Eve's inbox. All are read, but most are quickly deleted. Random Media's recent announcement of the release of 100... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• La Ronde (1950), a Film by Max Ophuls

  

  For the Criterion BlogathonWith the release of one of 2014's most unique films, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, came an avalanche of publicity. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• La Ronde (1950), a Film by Max Ophuls

  

  For the Criterion BlogathonWith the release of one of 2014's most unique films, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, came an avalanche of publicity. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Paris, Je T'aime

  

  Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)Thinking of Paris and all of France today, and some films that evoke my own deep affection for that great city an... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• THE ICE CREAM BLONDE by Michelle Morgan

  

  The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR AND A BOOK GIVEAWAY Nearly 80 years ago, comedienne... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Frank Capra's "lost Horizon"

  

  Frank Capra's wistful 1937 fantasy Lost Horizon begins dramatically with a chaotic mob scene at an airfield in war-torn Baskul, China, highlighted by a... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• GOING (to) PSYCHO AGAIN

  

  50 years ago, I saw Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho for the first time. It was 1965 and though the film was originally released in 1960, its immense popularity led... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Summer Under the Stars: La Femme Marlene

  

  Summer Under the Stars, August 22: Marlene DietrichIt was 1929, and Marlene Dietrich was appearing on the Berlin stage when Austrian-American film director Jose... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mr. Benchley, of New York and Hollywood

  

  Mr. Benchley, by Al KilgoreMr. Benchley, originally of Worcester, Massachusetts, was first and foremost enamored of Manhattan. He was later lured to Hollywood... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Robert Walker: Not Quite the Boy Next Door

  

  Summer Under the Stars, August 9: Robert WalkerFrom the New York Times, August 30, 1951: "Los Angeles, Aug. 29 - Robert Walker, 32-year-old film star whose own... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Celebrating One of Hollywood's Legendary Talents

  

  Let's ponder for a moment what Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) might have in common beyond having been voted the two finest films... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• National Classic Movie Day - May 16, 2015

  

  A special day is about to come to a close and I haven't much time to put together a tribute to one of my true passions, classic film. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Music in Film, Part I: Film with Live Orchestra

  

  The night sky was clear and the air a bit chilly on Friday, January 9, typical early winter weather in San Francisco. But the evening would be unusual for... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Shape of Things to Come...in 2015

  

  2014, a busy year in my world, seems to have passed in a about a half-hour or less, and now 2015 is at the door. Here's what my crystal ball predicts may be in... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• What a Character: Cecil Kellaway

  

  Cecil Kellaway is among a handful of older character actors active during Hollywood's heyday who brought to the screen a delectable combination of warmth,... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Year of Special Anniversaries

  

  2014 has been jam-packed with anniversaries significant to classic film lovers. The year has marked not only the on-screen centennial of Chaplin's "Little... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hair-raising Tales

  

  THE POUF Léonard Autié (Monsieur Léonard) was the imaginative 18thcentury hairdresser responsible for creating the wildly elaborate coiffures of Marie... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• SPELLBINDER: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

  

  Hollywood films about Hollywood behind the scenes didn’t begin or end with Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), but none has painted a more... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• About Memory, Movies, More...

  

  I’ve been noticing lately that my mind has developed a stubborn habit of drifting, and one of the places it seems to wander most often is into that vast mental... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES