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...
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