As 2013 departs, 2014 arrives with flair - courtesy of elegant and stylish Mr. Fred Astaire...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Marlene Dietrich, photograph by Edward SteichenMarie Magdalene Dietrich was born 112 years ago today in Schöneberg, Germany. She died well into her 90th year, in Paris, in 1992, and was by then known the world over as Marlene Dietrich, archetypal superstar of the silver screen as well as the cabaret and concert...
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Marc Platt (shown here, in the purple shirt, in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) turned 100 on December 2He was born Marcel LePlat in Pasadena, California on December 2, 1913, but was raised in Seattle, Washington. His training as a dancer began at age 11 at the local dance studio of Mary Ann Wells. In his early...
Monday, December 16, 2013
BOOKS AND DVDS IN YOUR STOCKING THIS YEAR?One of the things I love most about the holidays is giving gifts. This year I happen to have presents for a few classic film buffs and I'll be giving them this week.Literally the biggest gift to be given - at 1,000+ pages - is Victoria Wilson's long-awaited, long in-process ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The latest edition of the Film Noir Foundation's Noir City e-magazine is out and, along with major features on Dan Duryea and Peter Lorre, it brings news of Noir City XII, the FNFs annual film noir festival in San Francisco.Olga ZubarryThe festival will again take place at San Francisco's movie palace, the Castro...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Watching a console TV for long stretches from the living room floor and a distance of not more than a few feet was a good part of a typical day for most tots of my era. Much of what we watched was “old movies,” because, for many years, the films of what we now call "The Golden Age" aired morning, noon and night...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Clockwise from top left: Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson and Louise BrooksFashion in FilmFilm and costume design history expert Kimberly Truhler, one of the presenting hosts at TCM’s 2013 Classic Film Festival, launched her new webinar series The History of Fashion in Filmwith The 1920s - The Jazz Age...
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo at Davies Hall, San Francisco, November 1, 2013A few months ago the San Francisco Symphony announced that it would kick off a season-long classic film series with Hitchcock Week, October 30 - November 2. Each night a different Hitchcock movie was to be presented with its music track...
Friday, November 22, 2013
Personal Memories of John F. KennedyAt 43, he was the youngest man to be elected and the only Catholic President of the United States. His youth and religion were issues in 1960 when he won the office by quite a bit less than a landslide. After his assassination in 1963, at age 46, those issues became irrelevant...
Sunday, November 10, 2013
The What a Character! blogathon is in progress now, hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled and Paula's Cinema Club. Click here for more information and links to participating blogs. My entry for the event follows...~Young GladysShe was a beautiful child, wide-eyed and wistful, who began modeling...
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