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George Tobias: Hey! That's Abner Kravitz!
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Dec 4, 2021
This is my entry in the What a Character Blogathon hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula's Cinema Club. Click here for more about our favorite folks who don't need star billing to shine.George Tobias as himselfFor me, the best character actors are the ones who press that au read more
Living Your Inner Life in Public: The Lure of the Love of Film
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Nov 1, 2021
A couple of things, movie-wise, have been converging around me lately. Powerful things...things that are hard to put into words. But, I'll give it a go.First, I've been watching a whole lot of films starring my favorite actor. I think I'll leave him out of it for now, since I've written so much abou read more
The Producers (1967): Here's a Funny Story.....
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Oct 18, 2021
Maybe it's the state of affairs all around us, but I've been in a particularly sensitive mood these days...for so many days, it seems. Almost anything can make me bust out in tears - usually something beautiful; a song, a moment from a film, a memory. And when it comes to comedy, I simply can no lon read more
Love Me or Leave Me (1955) - A Bad Romance
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Sep 29, 2021
This is my entry in The Biopic Blogathon, hosted
by Hometowns to Hollywood. Click here
for more favorite biopics. They’re all true, right?My
heart explodes with love for this film. It has everything that
enchants me about the movies. It may never make the list of the greatest films read more
Without the Lover There is No Beloved: An Appreciation of the Audience
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Aug 24, 2021
This is a blogger's true confession.How I admire all of you who make art, who write about art, who inform and educate and thrill me with your creativity and insight. Movies have been my passion for most of my life, and yet I hardly care to know who directed it, who wrote it, who provided amazing lig read more
Book Review: Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Jun 30, 2021
I love the stories about the great movie pioneers, you know -L.B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, the Warner Brothers. But, before the usual and more famous pioneers, there were the earliest pioneers, the dreamers who served as the scouts who cleared the path and laid the foundation for a road that lead read more
History is Made at Night: Walking on Stardust
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 19, 2021
This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association Hidden Classics Blogathon. Click here for more hidden cinematic gems.History is Made at Night (1937)My love of film has to do with how they make me feel. While I don't always remember the exact plot lines, the camera angels or directorial stroke read more
National Classic Movie Day: 6 Decades/6 Double Features
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 15, 2021
This is my entry into The Classic Film and TV Cafe's annual National Classic Movie Day blogathon. This year's theme is 6 films - 6 decades. Click here to see more personal choices by some awesome movie lovers.If you're like me, you have a list of favorites. And, because they are favorites, I've writ read more
I'm Smitten: The Fetching Bernice Claire and the 2 Mr. Grays
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Apr 5, 2021
It's been a while since I have been smitten with a new-to-me find (classic movie wise). Being a fan of those early days musicals, Bernice Claire has been on my radar, but I have never seen her in anything. Thanks to good old TCM, I finally got to see her in "Spring is Here," one of those impossibly read more
High Noon: The Cowards Among us
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Feb 8, 2021
So, this is what happened the other day. AloneFor some strange reason, the theme song from "High Noon," the 1952 western, invaded my brain. Now, you should know that I am not a western fan by any stretch and this song is never one that is on my playlist. Still, it persisted, first in the read more
Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" at 80: Dreamers and Doers
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Oct 19, 2020
This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's Politics in Film Blogathon. For more examples of how this red hot topic is handled on the silver screen, click here.Spoiler alert: this is going to get political. Typically, I try (sometimes not always successfully) to keep politics read more
Then and Now: If Walls Could Talk
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Oct 8, 2020
Have you ever walked into an old house and wondered about the stories the walls could tell if they could talk? Or imagine the tales the trees in a forest could spin we spoke their language? Or, better yet, the locations in Hollywood that were silent witnesses to genius?In my previous post I challeng read more
Charlie Chaplin Sightings....Will You Join Me?
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Aug 27, 2020
So, here's the thing. I am endlessly fascinated with and amazed by Charlie Chaplin.For all you Buster folks, this is not a comparison. I really love Buster, too. What amazes me about Charlie (we are on a first name basis, just so you know), is how he remains relevant even 100 years after his f read more
Book Review: Martin Turnbull's "The Heart of the Lion": The Room Where it (Really) Happened
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Jun 28, 2020
Hey movie lover - haven't you often heard behind the scenes conversations in your head? You know, the ones between Clark Gable and Carole Lombard? Or Garbo and Gilbert? Or maybe, just maybe, Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer? Or better yet, all those mop up men at the Harlow home discussing ho read more
Gatsby and Me and Hollywood and the Heartbreak of the American Dream
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Jun 4, 2020
Pity their untortured
souls, for no magic comes from the satisfied.
From the get-go, I was the perfect food for the Hollywood
hunger machine. And from my first reading of that slim miracle, I knew the
meaning of that green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. I didn’t need an
explanati read more
Classics For Comfort: Getting Out of the Comfort Zone
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 19, 2020
This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association Classics For Comfort Spring Blogathon. Click here for more no-calorie comfort film food.
Movies have always served as a comfort for me, even in the best of times. The current pandemic and resulting sense of isolation makes one want t read more
National Classic Movie Day: 6 from the 60s
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 16, 2020
This is my entry in the National Classic Movie Day 6 From the 60's Blogathon hosted by the great and powerful Rick at The Classic Film and TV Cafe. Please click here for more great films and memories from a great decade for film and a great decade to be young.
Amazingly (to me, at least), I ha read more
Second Thoughts and Second Chances: My Dinner With Andre (1981)
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Mar 1, 2020
39 Years ago I had the worst movie-going experience of my life. I convinced a date to take me to see "My Dinner With Andre." And, no, the date was not the cause of the bad experience (although I will never forget the "I pick the next movie" look on his face at the end of the film). The cause o read more
Lady Sylvia Ashley: 2 Kings, 2 Lords and a Prince
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Jan 21, 2020
This is my contribution to the Wedding Bells Blogathon hosted by the always elegant Annette at Hometowns to Hollywood. Click here to immerse yourself in more cinematic wedded bliss.
Who is Sylvia?
The elegant Sylvia
I love a good Hollywood true true-love story. Lucy & Desi, Larry & read more
What A Character: The Ever Scandalous Estelle Winwood
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Nov 14, 2019
This is my contribution to the What a Character! Blogathon hosted by this trio of magnificence, otherwise known as Aurora of Once Upon a Screen, Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled and Paula of Paula's Cinema Club. Check out all three for all character updates.
Estelle Winwood
Hold Me! Touch Me! read more