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Will They Stay Together? Part I
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 24, 2025
For several years now, I’ve wanted to devote a blog post to the couples of noir. Not couples who ultimately failed to survive noir’s shadowy realm, like Anna and Steve of Criss Cross (1949) fame, or Gun Crazy’s (1950) Annie Laurie Starr and Bart Tare. Instead, I visualized taking a look at those read more
"I took a script to Spencer Tracy. I had gotten a ten-minute lecture about how I was supposed to go around the back to the gardener’s shack and leave it with him. Well, I screwed up and knocked on the front door. Then I saw Katharine Hepburn through the window, doing the dishes. I thought, Oh, gosh, I’m getting fired. They really l
Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 22, 2025
William Morris agent Larry Fitzgerald, from an interview in David Rensin’s The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (via lynnelemon)(via noyoudontoprah-deactivated20130) read more
"You can write about birth till hell freezes over, but there it is. It’s magic. You can write about death, but there it is, we don’t know anything about it, where we go, or what the hell it’s about. You can analyze love, but they know less about it now than they have ever known, and the whole philosophy in recent
Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on Jan 20, 2025
–Katharine Hepburn, in an interview with John Kobal, People Will Talk, 1985 read more
Noirvember Day 23: From the Moment They Met, It Was Murder!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 23, 2024
I started reading From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir back in the spring of 2024. My writing projects this year have thrown a variety of monkey wrenches into my reading time, but I finished the book today – and just in time for Double Indemnity week read more
Book Review: “From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir”
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on Apr 24, 2024
Book Review: “From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir”
Title: From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film NoirBy: Alain
Silver and James UrsiniPublisher:
Running Press – Turner Classic MoviesISBN:
978 read more
Oscar Tribute: The Noms They Got Right
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 10, 2024
I’ve ranted about the films I didn’t watch–and didn’t want to–but three of the films nominated for Oscars this year are great films. NO spoilers. American Fiction. Clever, funny, and original, this satire/dramedy delivers genuine laughs while also addressing heartbreak. read more
So Bad It’s Good Blogathon – They Came to Cordura (1959)
The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on Feb 23, 2024
So Bad It’s Good Blogathon – They Came to Cordura (1959)
On February 23, 2024February 23, 2024 By CarolIn Uncategorized
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The Sixth So Bad It’s Good Blogathon is here! My friend Rebecca over at Taking Up read more
Stories so nice, they told them twice: Christmas remakes
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 19, 2023
This article was originally written by me and published on the DVD Netflix blog, Inside the Envelop, in December 2019. DVD Netflix was shuttered in Sept. 2023, so I am republishing my work for DVD Netflix here: Sometimes a story is so good, Hollywood decides to tell it again. Since the silent film read more
The Public Enemy (1931): Did They have to Rub Out the Horse?
A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on Nov 7, 2022
This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's Movies are Murder Blogathon. Click here for more movie murder and mayhem.The Public Enemy: The Killer Must Be KilledThisAs most likely know, there are murders aplenty in The Public Enemy (1931). There are those anonymous gang members caug read more
In The Heat of The Night (1967): They Call Him Mister Tibbs
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 12, 2022
In The Heat of The Night is a testament to the collaborative nature of Hollywood. We watch Sidney Poitier step off the train. Haskell Wexler’s cinematography gives an instant texture to the world so the sweaty atmosphere is almost palpable around him. However, one of my immediate recollection read more
Watching 1939: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Apr 8, 2021
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th read more
A 'Look' at "They Knew What They Wanted"
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 17, 2020
"They Knew What They Wanted" was Carole Lombard's second film with Charles Laughton, but it was a far cry from their late 1933 Paramount potboiler "White Woman." This was made for RKO in 1940, an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play whose racy subject matter (waitress falls for yardhand whom read more
Was "The Other Man"..."What They Wanted"?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 15, 2020
Many Carole Lombard fans know that several of the movies she made initially had different titles. For example, during pre-production, "In Name Only" was first known as "The Kind Men Marry." United Artists toyed with the idea of naming "To Be Or Not To Be," a sophisticated dark Ernst Lubitsch comedy, read more
'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
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Apr 5, 2020
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Directed by Sydney Pollock Written by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson from a novel by Horace McCoy 1969/US IMDb link First viewing/Netflix rental A grueling and inhumane dance marathon stands in for all the misery of the Great Depression. Not ideal for read more
Becker (1998) s01e20 – Drive, They Said
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 4, 2020
There’s a disconnect during the opening titles; it says, “Written by David Isaacs and Ken Levine” (or however they do it), but it’s not a particularly good scene. Jonathan Nichols is a patient who stiffs Becker (Ted Danson) on his bills so Danson is mean to him. Beating up on the patient… read more
Watchmen (2019) s01e09 – See How They Fly
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 11, 2020
I’ve been trying to gin up enthusiasm to write about this “Watchmen” finale all day. Though, if I think hard enough, I’m sure I’ll be able to come up with a compliment. Something like… thanks to “Watchmen: The Series,” Robert Wisdom’s most… unappreciative recent casting is no longer read more
They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1968) – A Mini-Review
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jan 5, 2020
They Saved Hitler’s Brain (AKA The Madmen of Mandoras) Directed by David Bradley Written by Peter Miles; original story by Steve Bennett 1968/USA IMDb link First viewing/YouTube Not much to say about this one. Mad Nazis on a remote tropical island keep Hitler’s head in a jar. They plan 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
They All Come Out (1939)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 1, 2019
US / 69 minutes / bw / Loew’s, MGM Dir: Jacques Tourneur Pr: Jack Chertok Scr: John C. Higgins Cine: Clyde DeVinna, Paul C. Vogel Cast: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan, John Gallaudet, Addison Richards, Frank M. Thomas, George Tobias, Ann Shoemaker, Charles Lane, Fay Helm, Paul read more