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Little Big Miracle Worker (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 17, 2014
Forrest Gump: 1876 Who wouldn't see *this* movie? My Sunday With Arthur Penn Maybe it was all that laundry piled up in the kid's room. Or the several days of snow shoveling and school closings. But I just couldn't be bothered. Generally, when I feel overwhelmed by deta read more
Birthday of the Week: Robert Wagner (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 11, 2014
Born Robert John Wagner, Jr., Detroit, MI, February 10, 1930
Autobiography Pieces of My Heart: A LifeBy Robert J. Wagner and Scott Eyman,It Books, 2009 Class Act Full disclosure: I wrote this in tribute to Robert Wagner several years ago, but the sentiment pe read more
Birthday of the Week: Robert Wagner (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 11, 2014
Born Robert John Wagner, Jr., Detroit, MI, February 10, 1930 Autobiography Pieces of My Heart: A LifeBy Robert J. Wagner and Scott Eyman,It Books, 2009 Class Act Full disclosure: I wrote this in tribute to Robert Wagner several years ago, but the sentiment persists. read more
Orange Is the New Black: 1933 (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 8, 2014
Stanwyck rocks the frock. Ladies They Talk About (1933) I get a special feeling when I see the early Warner Bros. opening credits with stars posed in character — chewin' gum, givin' a copper the hairy eyeball, lightin' a cheroot — and those are just the girls. It's a read more
Orange Is the New Black: 1933 (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 8, 2014
Stanwyck rocks the frock. Ladies They Talk About (1933) I get a special feeling when I see the early Warner Bros. opening credits with stars posed in character — chewin' gum, givin' a copper the hairy eyeball, lightin' a cheroot — and those are just the girls. It's a read more
Anachronism in the Afternoon (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 7, 2014
Nazi babies. Seriously. By the way... I'm talking to YOU, Capital Beltway commuters. Hitler's Children (1943) To be honest, I was looking for My Bill, because I was thinking fondly of Kay Francis today and wanted to feature a movie starring Bonita Granville, our read more
Anachronism in the Afternoon (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 7, 2014
Nazi babies. Seriously. By the way... I'm talking to YOU, Capital Beltway commuters. Hitler's Children (1943) To be honest, I was looking for My Bill, because I was thinking fondly of Kay Francis today and wanted to feature a movie starring Bonita Granville, our read more
Wednesday's Child: Bonita Granville (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 5, 2014
Born February 2, 1923 Not Even Close to a Biography, but Fun My copy of Bonita Granville and the Mystery of Star IslandBy Kathryn HeisenfeltWhitman Publishing, 1942 What my sister wrote on the front endpaper of a gift copy: (I *did* already have it, but wasn't read more
Birthday of the Week: Lyle Talbot (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 3, 2014
Born Lisle Henderson in Pittsburgh, PA, February 8, 1902 Biography Read it. The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century, By Margaret TalbotRiverhead, 2012 Beautiful Rogue Turns out I have seen a surprising number of films that star or featur read more
Birthday of the Week: Lyle Talbot (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 3, 2014
Born Lisle Henderson in Pittsburgh, PA, February 8, 1902 Biography Read it. The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century, By Margaret TalbotRiverhead, 2012 Beautiful Rogue Turns out I have seen a surprising number of films that star or featur read more
Dear Friend (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 1, 2014
Ochi Chernye The Shop Around the Corner (1940) It's amazing how thoroughly The Shop Around the Corner draws you in with its quiet, lovely, even pace. Jimmy Stewart plays Alfred Kralik, the head clerk at a little department store in Budapest owned by fussy, temperamental Hugo Mat read more
Dear Friend (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Feb 1, 2014
Ochi Chernye The Shop Around the Corner (1940) It's amazing how thoroughly The Shop Around the Corner draws you in with its quiet, lovely, even pace. Jimmy Stewart plays Alfred Kralik, the head clerk at a little department store in Budapest owned by fussy, temperamental Hugo Mat read more
Stop Steaming Up My Tail (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 30, 2014
Whaddya tryin' to do? Wrinkle it? What a Gulli-Bull. What a Nin-Cow-Poop. I woke up this morning with the entire Looney Tunes cartoon, "Bully for Bugs" (1953) playing in my head. Probably because last night my son was being extra space-invasive and "Stop steaming up my tail!" is our read more
Stop Steaming Up My Tail (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 30, 2014
Whaddya tryin' to do? Wrinkle it? What a Gulli-Bull. What a Nin-Cow-Poop. I woke up this morning with the entire Looney Tunes cartoon, "Bully for Bugs" (1953) playing in my head. Probably because last night my son was being extra space-invasive and "Stop steaming up my tail!" is our read more
Birthday of the Week: Ernst Lubitsch (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 29, 2014
Ernst Lubitsch, January 28, 1892 Biography Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in ParadiseBy Scott Eyman, Simon & Schuster, 1993 Master of Innuendo I'm not going to write a particularly detailed tribute to Ernst Lubitsch on this, the day after his birthday, because so read more
Most Affable Thug: Dan Duryea (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 28, 2014
Not Terrifying. Not Terrific. Too Late for Tears (1949) What a silly, silly movie this is. Imagine if Patty McCormack's Rhoda Penmark from The Bad Seed grew up, got married, and started missing that penmanship medal. Maybe I'd been spoiled by the three Mexican pictures at Noir C read more
Mexican Noir: Undercover Braceros, a Deco Cat-and-Mouse Game, and a Pack of Angry Prostitutes (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 27, 2014
I hate to do all three of these fabulous films in one post, but I fear that if I don't do it now, the memory of Saturday's stupendous afternoon program at Noir City 12 will fade completely. One of the reasons I love San Francisco so much is that on an unseasonably warm and sunny winter's day about 1 read more
Mexican Noir: Undercover Braceros, a Deco Cat-and-Mouse Game, and a Pack of Angry Prostitutes (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 27, 2014
I hate to do all three of these fabulous films in one post, but I fear that if I don't do it now, the memory of Saturday's stupendous afternoon program at Noir City 12 will fade completely. One of the reasons I love San Francisco so much is that on an unseasonably warm and sunny winter's day about 1 read more
Good Night, Nurse (1)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 24, 2014
Spoiler: There's not really a whole lot of smiling in this picture. Cry 'Havoc' (1943) You know what's wrong with kids today? They never get a chance to see a picture like this by accident on a Saturday afternoon or on a Late Late Show on a local UHF station. That's how I first read more
Good Night, Nurse (2)
Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on Jan 24, 2014
Spoiler: There's not really a whole lot of smiling in this picture. Cry 'Havoc' (1943) You know what's wrong with kids today? They never get a chance to see a picture like this by accident on a Saturday afternoon or on a Late Late Show on a local UHF station. That's how I first read more