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Here’s the follow-up to my collection of great screen tests from last week. This time, I’m posting tests with three of the most legendary Hollywood personalities: James Dean, Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood have great loose energy together in thi read more

This great clip from a James Dean and Paul Newman screen test that Nicole posted on Classic Hollywood Nerd last week inspired me to search for more interesting tests from classic Hollywood. Here are some of my favorites:I’ve seen this Audrey Hepburn test for Roman Holiday (1953) dozens of time read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Edith Norma Shearer was born August 11, 1900 or 1902 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It's unclear which year. Norma came from a privileged Scottish family. Her father Andrew Shearer owned his read more

Victor Moore1876 - 1962Victor Moore was a stage and screen star with a lengthy and successful Broadway career. Movie fans recall him best as Fred Astaire's pal in Swing Time. Among his original characterizations was the role of Moonface in Cole Porter's Anything Goes which ran on Broadway for 420 read more

Rumor has it that by late '38, Louis B. Mayer was so eager to get the Widow Thalberg out of Marie Antoinette that he tested every single actress on the lot. Sadly, Marjorie Main's supposedly heartbreaking reel has disappeared, and all that remains of Margaret O'Brien's is this haunting still. Yeah read more

'Round about 70 years, Edgar Bergen - pioneer and, really, sole practitioner of the very odd profession of radio ventriloquist - gave a party. The theme? The Gay '90s. It looks like it was great, if slightly quirky, fun. The host, of course, entertained, in the company of a blackfaced Charlie McCart read more

Horace "Stephen" McNally1913 - 1994Former attorney Horace McNally decided to become an actor in the late 30s and toiled in Hollywood under his given name in a number of small roles in B pictures roles and the Broadway stage. A Broadway hit was Elmer Harris' Johnny Belinda in which he played the rol read more

Did you know that Eduardo Ciannelli (1889 - 1969) played "Diamond Louis" in the 1928 Broadway production of The Front Page?Did you further know that Abner Biberman (1909 - 1977) played "Diamond Louis" in the 1940 film version of The Front Page, Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday? And did you also know th read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I finally sat down and watched The Hollywood Revue of 1929 all the way through! And by golly I enjoyed every minute of it. Well, all the minutes in between Conrad Nagel's presentations, be read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. It's so pretty! And it's mine, all mine! It comes with 5, count 'em 5 films plus a documentary. What a great deal and what a beautiful package. My picture doesn't do it justice. Go out and read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. So on Friday I broke down and went ahead and purchased the TCM Archives Boxed Set "The Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2". I was going to buy it eventually but had just been renting read more

In real life, when you lose your temper, you've only given up something you can't get back. In the movies, losing your temper can be the key to stardom, accolades and audience sympathy. These three women unleashed some of the best tirades of classic Hollywood:The Miracle Woman (1931), Barbara Stanwy read more

Viva Hollywood The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Filmby Luis I. ReyesTCM and Running PressHardcover ISBN: 9780762478484September 2022Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Larry Edmund's — Powell's"Latinx artists both in front of and behind the cameras are committed to read more

Hollywood Beach Beauties Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970  by David Wills Dey Street Books May 2018 Hardcover ISBN:978008284255 224 pages Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells "The women, and some of the men, were painstakingly lit and strictly posed for ma read more

The Man Who Seduced Hollywood The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown's Most Powerful Lawyer by B. James Gladstone ISBN 9781613745793 Hardcover 352 pages Chicago Review Press May 2013 Barnes and Noble IndieBound Powell's “... Bautzer’s legacy is the way he created a public image read more

  Mean..Moody..Magnificent Christina Rice University Press of Kentucky, 2021 I’ve been eagerly anticipating Mean...Moody…Magnificent, because I couldn’t put down Christina Rice’s first biography, about Ann Dvorak. While this book is not the passion projec read more

Phantom Lady Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison The Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane Chicago Review Press Hardcover ISBN: 9781613733844 400 pages February 2020 Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's "Alfred Hitchcock would not have become 'Hitchcock' without her." — read more

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A Columbus Day visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston cost us nothing but gave us many riches in return. Two exhibits in particular made this classic-film-loving-gal's heart sing. The first exhibit was a collection of photographs by Yousuf Karsh entitled Karsh Goes H read more

When I finished the book, I didn't know whether to kiss it or throw it across the room. In the end, I kissed it because I enjoyed the journey, frustrations and all. Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood by Robert Matzen October 2010 $39.95 US Paladin Commun read more