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My Cinema Shame Statement for 2019 (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
For my 2019 Cinema Shame challenge I'm shaking things up a bit by watching films from the year I was born. And there is no shame in telling you that 1980 happens to be my birth year. Although there is a bit of shame in admitting how few films released in 1980 I've actually seen. Not very many. So I read more
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (24)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Thank you to everyone who reached out to me in anticipation of the new roundup of classic film books! I've been hard at work on this list and I finally have something to share. I was quite impressed with the new offerings and happy to see names like Marya Gates, Alex Kittle, Lies Lanckman, Mary Mall read more
Alive and Kicking (2016) (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
What do classic movie fans do when they want to pursue their passion in other avenues? They wear vintage clothes and shoes. They style their hair in mid-century up-dos or slicked back styles. They collect big band albums and jazz records. They frequent estate sales and thrift shops. They attend hist read more
Marked Woman (1937) (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Living in a culture that glorifies stupidity, I am always happy to watch brains win over brawn. In the case of Marked Woman (1937), Mary (Bette Davis) is a party girl at Club Intimate (I don't need to elaborate anymore do I). She's a smart dame but chose the hapless job because it makes a lot of mon read more
Kino Lorber Studio Classics: Lilies of the Field (1963) and The Organization (1971) (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Check out my latest YouTube video where I review two Kino Lorber Studio Classics Blu-rays starring Sidney Poitier: Lilies of the Field (1963) and The Organization (1971). I came to really appreciate Lilies of the Field with another viewing on this excellent blu-ray edition. Poitier won an Acad read more
Classic Hollywood Style by Caroline Young
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Classic Hollywood Style
by Caroline Young
October 2012
224 pages
Hardcover ISBN 9780711233751
Frances Lincoln
I cannot tell you how many times someone has come up to me to tell me that my outfit looks like something from an old movie. Or they point out something I would like because it's old Hollyw read more
Hank & Jim by Scott Eyman (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Hank & Jim
The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
by Scott Eyman
Hardcover ISBN: 9781501102172
Simon & Schuster
October 20017
Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells
Their friendship was an oxymoron. They were polar opposites and they were two peas in a pod. Act read more
If Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961) was on Match.com (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Fast_Eddie_Felson I can't lose.36-year old manNew York, NYseeking women 25-35within 10 miles of New York, NYRelationship: Never MarriedHave Kids: NoneWant Kids: No InterestBody Type: FitHeight: 5' 10"Smoke: Regularly. It helps me concentrate on my game.Drink: Regularly. J.T.S Brown (Bourbon Whiskey) read more
Elbert Coplen Jr., the infant star of Bachelor Mother (1939) (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Little Elbert Coplen Jr. went on to make a brief splash in Hollywood that didn’t last past the toddler stage.
At the tender age of 8 months, Elbert Coplen Jr. played John ("Johnnie") in the hilarious RKO comedy Bachelor Mother (1939). His father, Elbert Coplen Sr., was a mechanical engineer a read more
Paramount Theatre in Pictures (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
I recently went to the Paramount Theatre in Boston for the Arts Emerson Noir Nights repertory series (post about that to come). The theater opened in 1932 as an Art Deco style movie house but closed in 1976. Emerson College renovated it and added a performing art center to it between the years of 20 read more
Professional Sweetheart (1933) (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
"I want to sin and suffer. But right now I only suffer." - Glory
Miss Glory Eden (Ginger Rogers), aka The Purity Girl, is a radio sensation. Ipswich (Gregory Ratoff), the owner of the Ippsie Wippsie Wash Cloth Company, which runs their own sponsored radio station, is desperate to lock down Glory wi read more
Ben Mankiewicz interviews Walter Mirisch at the screening of The Great Escape (1963) (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
A 50th anniversary restoration of The Great Escape (1963) was premiered at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre (TCL Chinese) on Friday April 26th, 2013. Before the screening even started, I headed to the bathroom and saw a bunch of TCM staffers surrounding this older gentleman and heard one of them refer read more
Out of the Past: A 10th Anniversary (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
At Dick Cavett's TCMFF book signing
It was on this day 10 years ago that I started my classic film blog Out of the Past. It all began with a welcome post followed by a short piece on The Dick Cavett Show with special guest Alfred Hitchcock. Little did I know the journey this blog would read more
Summer Under the Stars - Norma Shearer on TCM (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
This starts tomorrow. Here are the Raquelle-approved reasons why you should watch each and everyone (except for one). And if you are not a Norma Shearer fan there is something wrong with you. Watching TCM Summer Under the Stars tribute to Norma Shearer can cure you of your atrocious malady.
Lady of read more
American Titan: Searching for John Wayne by Marc Eliot (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
by Marc Eliot
Dey St. Books (HarperCollins)
97800622690030 - Hardcover
432 pages
November 2014
Barnes and Noble
Powell's
IndieBound (your local Indie bookshop)
"As a crusader for freedom, he loved beating up on bad guys. He was, after all, the king of the c read more
'Til Death Do Us Part ~ Charles Boyer and Pat Paterson (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
Charles Boyer and Pat Paterson
Married 44 years
Charles Boyer was so despondent when his wife Pat Paterson died that he committed suicide just two days later. read more
Highway Dragnet (1954) (4)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
"First guy who moves gets a belly full of lead."
Jim Henry (Richard Conte) was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jim meets with a fellow Marine in Las Vegas to discuss fixing up his seaside home that's been flooded by rising waters. While in Sin City he meets temperamental model Terry Sm read more
How Green Was My Valley (1941) screening and Maureen O'Hara at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
The screening of How Green Was My Valley (1941) at the TCM Classic Film Festival was such a spectacular event. It was worth waiting in line for almost two hours to make sure that I not only got in but that I got a good seat as well. I waited in line with K.C. of A Classic Movie Blog, Jessica o read more
Holy Cross Cemetery Tour (1)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
We recently visited Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California where many classic film stars of the Catholic faith are buried. We didn't have a lot of time to go searching for gravestones but did find a few. Interesting thing about this cemetery is that there are very few upright gravestones. Mo read more
The winners of the America America (1963) Giveaway... (2)
Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001
... as chosen by Random.org are...
Entry # 5
Thomas
Thomas' favorite Elia Kazan film is On The Waterfront (1954). His great grandfather brought the family over from Norway after having lots of luck playing poker in America!
Entry #12
Kate Gabrielle of Scathingly Brilliant
Kate's favo read more