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Day Twenty-One of Noirvember: Quote of the Day
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 21, 2018
“She was a charming, middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who’d take a drink if she had to knock you down to get to the bottle.” Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944). ~ by shadowsandsatin on November 21, 2018. Posted in Uncategorize read more
Day Twenty of Noirvember: The Noir of HUAC
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 20, 2018
Larry Parks testifying before HUAC. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) launched an investigation into Communism in the motion picture industry, throwing Tinseltown into a paranoid panic and ruining the lives of countless artists. During secret testimony before HUAC in 1951, a read more
Day Nineteen of Noirvember: Celebrating Gene
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 19, 2018
When you think of first-rate noir actresses, the really talented ones, who do you think of? Stanwyck? Claire Trevor? Audrey Totter? What about Gene Tierney? Is she even on your list? Because of her striking beauty and innate elegance, I think that Tierney’s acting prowess is often overlooked, but read more
Day Seventeen of Noirvember: Favorite Femme Fatales
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 18, 2018
Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson I love a lot (obviously) about film noir. And one of the things I love best about these films is the deadly, duplicitous dames commonly known as femme fatales. You know – the ones who use their wiles to get their way. The ones who have an uncanny, innate ability for read more
Day Eighteen of Noirvember: Reel Names
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 18, 2018
Mikhail Mazurkiewicz and Doris Bernice Jensen in Nightmare Alley (1947) On last week’s Trivia Thursday, one of my entries was the given name of actor Robert Taylor: Spangler Arlington Brugh (which just happens to be my favorite name of all time). Today’s Noirvember post serves up 10 more read more
Day Sixteen of Noirvember: The Words of Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 16, 2018
She goes where she wants to. It’s a Noirvember tradition – a celebration of the memorable words of film noir. Enjoy! “You’re trying to make me go soft. Well, you can save your oil. I don’t go soft for anybody.” Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire (1942) “If you want fresh air, don’t look read more
Day Fifteen of Noirvember: Trivia Thursday
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 15, 2018
Lana Turner and Spangler Arlington Brugh. A Thursday without trivia is like a day without sunshine. (Or something like that.) Join me in diving into a pool full of trivial tidbits about the stars of some of my favorite noirs . . . Robert Taylor’s given name was Spangler Arlington Brugh. Adele Jergen read more
Day Fourteen of Noirvember: Stranger Than Fiction — The Phenix City Story
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 14, 2018
The Phenix City Story is a 1955 noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, and Kathryn Grant. The title location is a lawless town in Alabama where the crooks are running the show and the cops are ineffectual at best, and on the payroll of the head mobster, Rhett Tanner read more
Day Thirteen of Noirvember: Savage Detour
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 13, 2018
Detour (1945) is 68 minutes of cracking good lines, an edge-of-your-seat plot, and a perfect noir ending. And then there’s Ann Savage. In the film, Savage plays Vera, a hitch-hiker picked up on the side of the road by Al Roberts (Tom Neal), who’s on his way from New York to California to meet up read more
Day Twelve of Noirvember: List o’ the Week — Top 10 Taglines
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 12, 2018
It’s Love and Murder at First Sight! I love movie taglines — especially the taglines for noir features. They crack me up. They’re so EMPHATIC! And so DRAMATIC! This week’s list features some of my favorites. Do you have any? Double Indemnity (1944): It’s Love And Murder read more
Day Eleven of Noirvember: The Tragic Life and Times of Gail Russell
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 11, 2018
Of all the noir femmes I can think of, Gail Russell had the saddest eyes. There was a reason for that. Russell appeared in four noirs during her career – Calcutta (1947), opposite Alan Ladd; Moonrise (1948), with Dane Clark and Lloyd Bridges; Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), starring Edward G. Robi read more
Day Ten of Noirvember: Laraine Day and The Locket
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 11, 2018
The Locket (1946) is a fascinating film noir that tells the story of Nancy, a beautiful and accomplished young woman who, at the start of the picture, is about to marry the love of her life, John Willis. Shortly before the start of the ceremony, however, John is visited by Dr. Harry Blair, who claim read more
Day Nine of Noirvember: Quote of the Day
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 9, 2018
“Young woman, either you have been raised in some incredibly rustic community, where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from the common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct. Or possibly both.” — Clifton Webb in L read more
Day Eight of Noirvember: Trivia Thursday
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2018
What a difference a meal makes. If you know anything about me, you know I love trivia! Today’s Noirvember post offers a few tidbits about some of my favorite noir films and performers . . . This Gun for Hire (1942), starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, was remade in 1957 as Short Cut to Hell. read more
Day Seven of Noirvember: Jack Palance Gets the Confidential Treatment
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 7, 2018
During last year’s Noirvember observance, one of my posts focused on the scandal rag called Confidential and three film noir femmes – Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, and Ava Gardner — who received the “star treatment.” This year, I flipped the pages of my Confidential magazine collection read more
Day Six of Noirvember: Quote of the Day
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 6, 2018
“The biggest mistake I made before was shooting for peanuts. Five years have taught me one thing: any time you take a chance, you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk, ’cause they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.” & read more
Day Five of Noirvember: List o’ the Week — My Favorite Noir Titles
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 5, 2018
As if I needed something else to love about film noir, I recently realized that I just love noir’s creative and unique titles. So today’s Noirvember post serves up a list of my Top 20 film noir titles. What are some of your favorites? Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (1948) — Burt Lancaster, Joan read more
Day Three of Noirvember: Laura Trivia
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2018
In love with a woman he’d never met. One of my many favorite noirs is 20th Century-Fox’s Laura (1944), which focuses on the efforts of police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) to find the killer of the title character, played by Gene Tierney. Among those questioned in the investiga read more
Day Four of Noirvember: The Noirish Life of Gig Young
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2018
Today’s Noirvember post peers inside the shadowy life of actor Gig Young, who was born Byron Elsworth Barr on today’s date in 1913 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The film and TV star was bitten by the acting bug while in high school and later landed a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playho read more
Day Two of Noirvember: Top Five in ’45
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2018
Everybody raves about all the great noirs that were released in 1947 – Out of the Past, Body and Soul, Nightmare Alley, T-Men, yada yada yada – it was a completely stupendous and totally awesome year for noir. But 1947 wasn’t the only year that gave us a slate of memorable noirs; every year during read more