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'If they asked me, I could write a book...' And they have.
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 8, 2020
Several years ago, my Facebook friend Michelle Morgan wrote a biography of Carole Lombard, which I had more than the usual interest in. Why? One, I assisted with her research, and two......I was one of two people the book was dedicated to.For years, it's been suggested I write a Lombard book, an read more
Nursing a role: En route to 'Vigil In The Night'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 7, 2020
Now that we're in the second day of National Nurses Week (it ends on Tuesday, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing), it seemed a good to examine Carole Lombard's journey to her role in "Vigil In The Night," her 1940 film about nursing and arguably her read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e05 – Murder à la Mode
The Stop Button Posted by on May 6, 2020
It’s kind of a Dot (Ashleigh Cummings) episode. At least more of a Dot episode than the show’s ever had before. Not only does she get a real subplot with beau Hugo Johnstone-Burt, who’s very taken with the outfits he sees around a fancy dressmaker’s (at least the ones modeled on half-French read more
A 1914 Letter from Basil Rathbone
The Baz Posted by Neve on May 5, 2020
Basil Rathbone, a member of F.R. Benson’s Shakespeare Company, in 1913 or 1914 read more
Kevin Costner Looks for a Way Out
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 4, 2020
Kevin Costner as Tom Farrell.
Unless you've seen No Way Out (1987) or The Big Clock (1948), be forewarned that this review will contain plot spoilers. The former film is a updated remake of the latter, with both films being based on the 1946 novel The Big Clock by author and poet Kenneth read more
A Lombard flick...at a drive-in? It happened in her lifetime
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 4, 2020
This photo of Carole Lombard with her car was taken by the esteemed Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1938. And the year after this, she could have taken that auto of hers, driven not far from her new Encino ranch home, and done something more culturally associated with future generations.For years, I've wonder read more
Vengeance is hers, with a Hitch
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 3, 2020
This scene of Carole Lombard in a tub was filmed for "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," the 1941 marital comedy directed by, of all people, Alfred Hitchcock. We learn more about this, and other indignities he put Carole through, in this United Press article fro the Nov. 5, 1940 Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call (double read more
A Revisionist View of “The Reivers”: Novel into Film
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on Apr 29, 2020
A Revisionist View of “The Reivers”: Novel into Film
Carl Rollyson
www.carlrollyson.com
The Reivers (1962), William Faulkner’s final novel, casts a retrospective and ruminative eye on the history of Yoknapatawpha, his mythical county. Critics and biographers have called the read more
Small Change (1976): A Story of Love and Adolescence
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 28, 2020
Francois Truffaut has a knack for understanding children in all their intricacies. One suspects it’s because he’s never really grown up himself. He is a child at heart with even his earliest films of the Nouvelle Vague channeling the joy and the passion of a younger individual. First, th read more
Herald-ing a 'Dressing' in Missouri
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 28, 2020
Paramount's "We're Not Dressing" was a star-studded romp that hit movie theaters in the spring of 1934, roughly the same time as another Carole Lombard film, Columbia's "Twentieth Century." Above is a herald promoting the movie, which ran at the Dickinson Theater in Fayette, Mo., in early May 1934.W read more
Frasier (1993) s01e17 – A Midwinter Night’s Dream
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 27, 2020
Mid-Winter Night's Dream has another wonderful script from Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano, showcasing Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce’s range while relying on Kesley Grammer and John Mahoney’s… well, reliability. Ranberg and Flett-Giordano play with audience expectation and their read more
A new pic I know little about
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 24, 2020
Wish I had more information about this Carole Lombard portrait. I don't know when it was taken, what studio it's from, who took it, and so on. (The back of the photo is blank.) Anyone hazard to guess?Here's what I do know: It's 8" x 10", not an original (it apparently dates from the 1950s, according read more
Frasier (1993) s01e15 – You Can’t Tell a Crook by His Cover
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 23, 2020
Would it be a spoiler to comment on the presence of always a cop character actor Ron Dean being in a “line-up” of three people where two are cops and one’s an ex-con? It’s fun to see Dean in a slightly different context, especially since he gets a punchline (he knows about a fancy serving plate read more
'Big News' about a Lombard rarity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 20, 2020
Which is the best of Carole (or as she was known then, "Carol") Lombard's three talkies for Pathe? I, and more than a few others, would cast a vote for "Big News," probably the least-seen of the three.It helps that one-time Hearst animator Gregory La Cava directs rather than the pedestrian Howard Hi read more
A parasol, smile and swimsuit for Sennett
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 17, 2020
When Carole Lombard signed with Mack Sennett in 1927, the silent comedy impresario's overriding concern wasn't her acting ability; she'd shown she could handle the rudiments of the business during her brief stay at Fox. Nor did he worry about her inherent comic skill, which he figured he could teach read more
A (chicken) pox on Carole's house?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 15, 2020
Nearly two decades after Carole Lombard (then the 10-year-old Jane Alice Peters) lived in a world where a communicable disease ran rampant, she feared she may have caught another one. Thankfully for her, it wasn't the influenza which ravaged the globe in 1918-1919, or the covid-19 that's been recent read more
A seasonal salute to nurses: 'Vigil In The Night'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 12, 2020
Nurses have always been thanked for their service, but never more so than now, when the world relies on them and fellow medical providers through this hazardous time. It's led to a renewed appreciation of Carole Lombard's 1940 film "Vigil In The Night," where she portrays a nurse in modern-day Brita read more
A Bad Thing (2011)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 11, 2020
US / 24 minutes / color Dir: Nick White (i.e., Nick Paul White) Pr & Scr: Michael Blackman, Nick White Cine: Matthew A. Del Ruth Cast: Richard Riehle, Jonathan Schwartz, Alan Charof, Molly White, Ferrell Marshall, Kristen Besinque Lawyer and heart attack waiting to happen Frank Harrison (Riehle read more
Book Review--The Short Story of Film: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Movements & Techniques
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Apr 8, 2020
The Short Story of Film: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Techniques and Movements
Ian Haydn Smith
Laurence King Publishing, 2020
I’m a fan of Ian Haydn Smith’s concise film guide Cult Filmmakers: 50 Movie Mavericks You Need to Know. With his new book The Short Story of Film: A Pock read more
Amarcord (1973): Life is a Carnival
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 8, 2020
The most magical moments of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord occur at the very beginning and near the end. First, when the puffballs flutter through the air as a sign of spring and then, later, when a soft layer of powder signifies the advent of winter. It’s a reminder of nature, of seasons, read more