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Loretta Young’s birth date is January 6th, and TCM is celebrating the occasion by showing a string of films starring this talented and lovely actress, including such pre-Code gems as Big Business Girl (1931), They Call It Sin (1932), Weekend Marriage (1932), and Employees’ Entrance (1933). In fact, read more

Loretta Young’s birth date is January 6th, and TCM is celebrating the occasion by showing a string of films starring this talented and lovely actress, including such pre-Code gems as Big Business Girl (1931), They Call It Sin (1932), Weekend Marriage (1932), and Employees’ Entrance (1933). In fact, read more

Norma Shearer and Shadows and Satin wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa, and a safe and prosperous New Year!! About these ads Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading... Related ~ by shadowsandsatin on December 25, 2014. Posted in Uncategorized Stuf read more

Norman Foster, man of many talents. Saluting one of my favorite pre-code actors today – Norman Foster, born on December 13, 1903. He’s not necessarily the best actor of the pre-Code era, and he’s certainly not the most remembered, but to me, he’s always a delight to watch. Foster was born Norman read more

Selecting this month’s Pre-Code Crazy pick was a tiny bit difficult – TCM’s December line-up isn’t exactly brimming with pre-Code features. But no worries –I found a good one; it’s airing on December 2nd, so start making plans now to check out Under Eighteen, starring Marian read more

Sonia Darrin. Helene Stanton. Two actresses from Hollywood’s Golden Age who didn’t have blockbuster screen careers – in fact, I’ll wager that you’d be hard-pressed to find a half-dozen classic film fans who even recognize their names. But they have several characteristics in common – both read more

Who was Signe Hasso? With her composed beauty, glacial countenance, and stately bearing, Signe Hasso was always considered less a star than a true actress. Sadly, many of today’s classic film fans don’t know her – although she appeared opposite some of Hollywood’s most romantic leading men, read more

Everybody knows about those larger-than-life femme fatales in those famous, blockbuster noirs: dames like Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity. Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past. Kitty Collins in The Killers. Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sure, we’re all familiar with these twisted read more

Dors in the opening scene of the film. Within the first eight minutes of Yield to the Night, a British noir released in 1956, I was in love with this movie. Here’s why: 1. It opens with not a word of dialogue – just two women, one blonde, one brunette. The blonde is traveling to an unknown destinati read more

Turner Classic Movies is offering a mini-Alfred Hitchcock marathon on Friday, November 28th. Among the films that will be aired is one that Hitchcock claimed as his favorite: Shadow of a Doubt (1943). This film stars Joseph Cotten as Charlie Oakley, a self-described “promoter [who has] done a little read more

What is Gene Tierney up to? Watch Whirlpool and find out. Released by 20th Century Fox in 1949, Whirlpool stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, and Jose Ferrer. It’s not quite noir – but it’s certainly, undeniably noir-ISH. This is the story. Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), the wife of a prominent psychoana read more

Edward G. Robinson in The Woman in the Window. Edward G. Robinson in The Woman in the Window. Burt Lancaster in The Killers Burt Lancaster in The Killers ~ by shadowsandsatin on November 24, 2014. Posted in Noirvember 2014, The Language of Noir Tags: Ann Savage, Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, read more

It’s a typical noir storyline – a regular Joe gets in dutch with the law, a gang of hoods, or both, and before you can say “Bob’s your uncle,” he’s in over his head. Way over. That’s the basic premise of Desperate (1947), starring Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, and Raymond Burr. But in the read more

Ida Lupino in Road House. What did she say? For today’s celebration of Noirvember, I’m offering up a little quiz – test your skills and see if you can identify the actor or actress who uttered these lines, and the movie in which they were uttered! Enter your guesses in the comments secti read more

Better late than really, really late, I sometimes say. Back in 2011, in response to a request from one of my readers, I offered up part I of my Top 10 Films Noirs. I acknowledged that I have a great many favorite noir features, and I shared my plans to return soon with my next set of Top 10. Well, t read more

“I don’t think I’ll have to kill her.” What time is it? Time for another look at some of those great noir lines! Enjoy! “I don’t think I’ll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that’s all.” Sterling Hayden in The Killing (1956) “For a read more

That was one lucky elevator ride. Today’s celebration of Noirvember takes a look at the paths that three of my favorite noir actors took to reach the land of noir. After working in such varied posts as engineer for a meatpacking firm and floor walker in the lingerie department at Chicago’s Marshall read more

In her second film noir appearance – and her second film with the same name –  Joan Crawford starred in Possessed, released by Warner Bros., in 1947. It’s airing Thursday on TCM – I strongly recommend that you give it a look. The film opens with Crawford’s character, Louise Howell Graham, read more

(Warning: This post is long. Seriously. You may want to pack a lunch.) This is my favorite picture of Raymond Burr. (Don’t you LOVE it??) Perry Mason. Ironside. Two fictional characters with whom the name of Raymond Burr is instantly and inextricably linked. But the handsome, hefty actor of st read more

I can’t see Gilda too many times. I discovered a few years ago that Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, is one of those films that is simply mesmerizing to me. Whenever I happen across it, I have to watch it until the end. It’s coming on Tuesday night on TCM, and I’m really read more