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Happy Birthday, Marion! and Reflections
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jan 29, 2024
Since 2012, the Santa Monica Conservancy of Santa Monica, CA, has thrown a large Marion Davies birthday party. It is held at the Annenberg Community Beach House, affectionately known as “the Beach House,” of which the Conservancy is the proud steward. The celebration is an opportunity f read more
Day 28 of Noirvember: Happy 100th Birthday, Gloria!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 28, 2023
I first met her decades ago as a sassy flirt in the 1946 Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Since then, Gloria Grahame has become one of my favorite noir femmes, turning in standout performances in a spate of shadowy classics. Grahame was born Gloria Grahame Hallward in Los Angeles, 100 years read more
Happy Birthday, Jeanne Crain
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on May 25, 2023
Happy Birthday, Jeanne Crain
I’m a huge fan of Jeanne Crain. She was one of the most
popular movie stars from the mid-to-late 1940s to the early 1950s.A favorite of studio chief Daryl F. Zanuck at 20th
Century-Fox, Crain was cast as the girl next door in the mold of Janet Gaynor,
several read more
Noirvember Day 28: Happy Birthday, Gloria!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 28, 2022
There was nobody in Hollywood like Gloria Grahame. She could be sweetly naïve, sexy and shrewd, broadly humorous, or just plain deadly. And she was equally adept at each. While I’ve enjoyed her performances in films like It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and Oklahoma! (1955), it’s Grahame’s noirs, read more
Noirvember Day 19: Happy Birthday, Gene Tierney
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 19, 2022
While she’s arguably one of classic Hollywood’s most beautiful stars, Gene Tierney – in my opinion – doesn’t always get the acclaim she deserves for her acting ability. But she was outstanding in films like The Razor’s Edge (1947) and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) and turned in memorable read more
BING'S BIRTHDAY MOVIE: Just for You, 1952
Caftan Woman Posted by on May 3, 2021
Bing Crosby stars as Jordan Blake, a phenomenally successful producer/composer/director/entertainer. A widower for ten years, romance has entered his life in the form of musical star Carolina Hill played by Jane Wyman. Blake has not intentionally neglected his children, it is simply that he has been read more
Of course TCM will celebrate her birthday!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 30, 2020
Next Tuesday, Oct. 6, is the 112th anniversary of Carole Lombard's birth...and as it does most years on that date, Turner Classic Movies is celebrating with several of her movies. Here's the schedule (all times Eastern):* 10:30 a.m. -- "Vigil In The Night" (1940)* 12:15 p.m. -- "The Gay Bride" (1934 read more
For Bill Powell's birthday, a present for his fans
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 29, 2020
Today is the 128th anniversary of the birth of William Powell, my favorite classic era actor, embracing Carole Lombard, my favorite classic era actress, at the time of their honeymoon in June 1931. While their marriage was relatively brief, ending in August 1933, their affection and friendship remai read more
BING'S BIRTHDAY MOVIE: Mississippi, 1935
Caftan Woman Posted by on May 3, 2020
The basis for this 1935 Paramount release was the 1923 play Magnolia by Booth Tarkington. The comedy set in the Antebellum South tells the tale of a man who does not believe in the code of honour which includes dueling. The play ran for only 40 performances and featured two performers who are favour read more
Celebrating "The Shop Around the Corner" on its 80th Birthday
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Jan 10, 2020
Today marks the 80th
anniversary of the premiere of what has been called Ernst Lubitsch’s “most
discreet tour de force of art concealing art,” The Shop Around the Corner (1940). That’s a nicely spun phrase;
some might simply call it perfection…
~
When she was asked, read more
Classic Conversations: Chatting with Barbara Rush on Her 93rd Birthday
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Danny Miller on Jan 10, 2020
Barbara Rush with Rock Hudson and Jeffrey Hunter It’s no secret that I’m in love with Barbara Rush, star of stage, screen, and television. She appeared in some of my favorite movies and added immeasurably to every one of them. And her co-stars were equally legendary. The Young Philadelphians read more
Day 3 of Noirvember: Happy Birthday, Charles Bronson
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2019
If you know anything at all about Charles Bronson, it’s probably as the craggy-faced, mustachioed actor whose primary claim to fame was his performances as a vigilante in movies like Death Wish (1974) and its four sequels. But prior to the crag and before the mustache, Bronson was known as Charles read more
They say it's my birthday (now I'm sixty-four)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 19, 2019
Facebook friend David Hardwick supplied this surprise -- a scene of Carole Lombard, with birthday cake, from "Brief Moment." It's been some time since I last saw this 1933 Columbia drama, so I don't recall this scene, nor did I know such a still existed.Yes, today is my birthday, as I turn two to th read more
Happy birthday, Bill! TCM presents plenty of Powell (and lots of Loy, too)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 28, 2019
This photo is likely the last time Carole Lombard and William Powell were pictured together in public. The former couple are seen dancing sometime in 1940 at Ciro's on the Sunset Strip. The nightclub opened that Jan. 31, and earlier that month Powell -- 16 years older than Lombard -- had married Dia read more
BING'S BIRTHDAY MOVIE: Here Is My Heart (1934)
Caftan Woman Posted by on May 3, 2019
"Bing Crosby is something more than a crooner; he is a comedian with a perfect sense of timing."
- New York Daily News review
A 1924 play by Alfred Savoir called (translation) The Grand Duchess and the Floor Boy inspired Paramount's 1934 musical release, Here is My Heart. Bing Crosby is our star read more
Tomorrow, Una x 10 (happy birthday!)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 9, 2018
Carole Lombard was one of the many Golden Age actresses who benefited from having Una Merkel as a cinematic "best friend"-- and she'll be saluted all day Monday by Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. And while "True Confession," Lombard's lone film with Merkel, isn't among the 10, count 'em, 10 films read more
'Closer' to Clark and Carole, and happy birthday, Anna!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 29, 2018
Apologies to Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, but I guess I haven't paid much attention to supermarket checkout stands lately. If I had, I'd know that earlier this month, the weekly mag Closer ran a cover feature on Clark, focusing on his legendary, ill-fated romance with Carole:Moreover, the story h read more
Day Twenty-Six of Noirvember: Happy Birthday, Adele Jergens!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 26, 2018
When they nicknamed Adele Jergens “The Eyeful,” they weren’t just whistlin’ Dixie. Born on November 17, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, Adele Louisa Jurgens didn’t start out with her sights set on the big screen. The tomboyish Adele was the youngest of four children and the only girl, and was read more
The Funny Papers: Celebrate Marie Dressler 150! Hometown Hosts Her Birthday in Style
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Kellee Pratt on Aug 30, 2018
Celebrate Marie Dressler 150! Hometown Hosts Her Birthday in Style “By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.” –Marie Dressler Leila Marie Koerber “M read more