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This is my contribution to the "Vive La France Blogathon" hosted by the dynamic duo of Christian at Silver Screen Modes and Patty a.k.a The Lady Eve at The Lady Eve's Reel Life. Click here for more cinematic inspiration from the land of the City of Lights and beyond. Liliom (1934) Why "Lilio read more

This Carole Lombard image has been hanging around cyberspace for some time, and yet I've never done anything with it. Perhaps it's because she's wearing furs or because she's holding a cigarette in her right hand. Or maybe it's because that as color pics of Lombard go, I never deemed it all that spe read more

Over the Rainbow: a história de uma canção Over the Rainbow: the history of a song Há uma grande chance de que você já tenha ouvido esta charmosa música, que é quase uma canção de ninar, sobre um lugar onde pássaros azuis voam e sonhos se realizam, muito antes de ter visto o filme read more

The oldest movie theater near where I grew up was built in 1938 and by some peculiar coincidence, Bette Davis is said to have driven by the establishment time and time again. Being the iron-willed personality that she was, the rising star demanded they open with her latest movie. (I assume very few read more

Shirley MacLaine as Nicole. This review contains a spoiler.  In  the first 29 minutes of Gambit (1966), we see art thief Harry Dean (Michael Caine) execute the perfect heist with the aid of dance hall girl Nicole (Shirley MacLaine) and his partner Emile (John Abbott). Of course, it read more

Variações sobre um mesmo tema: A Mosca da Cabeça Branca (1958) e A Mosca (1986) Variations on the same theme: The Fly (1958 & 1986) Uma das melhores surpresas que tive vendo filmes e escrevendo no blog envolve o filme “A Mosca da Cabeça Branca”,de 1958. Tendo encontrado read more

Carole Lombard and James Stewart "made for" a fine couple in the 1939 Selznick International film "Made For Each Other." Now a super-rare piece of movie memorabilia has been put up for auction:What is it? We'll let the seller explain:As proof it "displays well," here are the other photos taken of it read more

Roy Scheider as Manucci. The late 1960s and early 1970s was a banner period for gritty, urban cop pictures. Philip D'Antoni produced three of the best, which all incidentally featured nail-biting chase sequences: Bullitt, The French Connection, and The Seven-Ups. The least famous of that trio is Th read more

In 1994, the Southwestern Law School purchased the landmark Bullocks Wilshire department store. Instead of tearing down the building or gutting its interior - which is far too often the case with developers in Los Angeles - Dean Leigh H. Taylor worked with preservationists to painstakingly restore t read more

This is how we expect to see David and Ann Smith (Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard) -- as a bickering couple really to rip into each other. (You'd be too, if you just discovered that a bizarre legal technicality has rendered their marriage null and void, enabling Ann to throw David out of the Ma read more

Carole Lombard looks her usual stylish self in this 1939 fan magazine photo promoting her upcoming film "The Kind Men Marry" (a title soon altered to "In Name Only"). But note who designed it and where it came from -- a tag from a suit supplies the answer:It's the legendary "Irene" (Irene Lentz Gibb read more

A Dama de Espadas (1949 / The Queen of Spades (1949) ESTA CRÍTICA CONTÉM SPOILERS THIS ARTICLE HAS SPOILERS Ver um filme que é elogiado pela maioria dos críticos e também por diretores como Martin Scorsese e Wes Anderson é como fazer uma aposta segura. A obra-prima britânica de read more

Carole Lombard's "enthusiasm" for the hokum that is "Supernatural" is made apparent in this seance scene, where she probably wishes some magic could transport her to a place other than the Paramount lot. Perhaps a few blocks north on Gower Street to Columbia, where Harry Cohn's one-time Poverty Row read more

Admittedly at times, I fall into the trap of getting so caught up in the context of a film and its history I miss out on elements of the experience. However, when I watched Ride the High Country it didn’t feel like I was getting distracted by how this story pertained to others — at leas read more

I'm very excited to announce that I am writing a book on Film Noir Style!  The book will celebrate some of the genre's most influential films and stars of the 1940s as well as examining the historical context of the time. The clip above is a not so subtle clue that Gilda (1946) will likely b read more

Huh? What are "p1202s," you ask? As many Carole Lombard fans know, p1202 was the "player number" she was assigned by Paramount after she signed a contract with the studio in 1930, used for publicity stills not necessarily associated with Paramount films she was making. Above, the one that started it read more

Karl Malden as Arno. If you've never seen an Italian giallo film--and have an aversion to movie violence--then Dario Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) just might be your cup of tea. It's not a prototypical example of the genre (see Argento's later Deep Red), but it will give you a taste of the read more

Imagine seeing Carole Lombard and Clark Gable in an adjoining car in Hollywood some 80 years ago, and that you were a fan equipped with a camera. Your resume might be this -- a casual image catching both stars in a jovial mood. "Yeah, it's us," they might tell you before going on their merry way.Thi read more

Legends of Western Cinema Week is taking place right now and since we love westerns, it was very difficult to decide which film/actor to write about for the event. We'll be taking part by contributing western reviews of two favorites: Tribute to a Bad Man ( 1956 ) and Gun Glory ( 1956 ).....but, sin read more

The LEGENDS OF WESTERN CINEMA WEEK is an online celebration running from July 21 - 27. It is hosted by Heidi of Along the Brandywine, Olivia of Meanwhile, in Rivendell and Hamlette's Soliloquy.  "Do you love western movies? Do you like western movies? Do you kind of fondly tolerate western m read more