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Monday, March 22, 2021

Old Hollywood Haunts, Pt. 2: Charlie Farrell's Racquet Club in Palm Springs

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Charlie Farrell, top center; Ava Gardner, bottom left; on the right, Marilyn Monroe and Spencer Tracy Many years ago, Charlie Farrell was a ...
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

Old Hollywood Haunts, Pt. 1: A Birthday Remembrance for the Brown Derby on Vine...

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I lived in Hollywood, once upon a time, on Poinsettia between Fountain and Santa Monica Blvd., not far from Melrose.  It was the early '...
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Sunday, January 31, 2021

WILSON (1944), Darryl F. Zanuck's Forgotten Campaign for World Peace

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It was August 1944 and World War II was advancing toward its cataclysmic end when 20 th Century Fox launched a heavily promoted biographi...
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Friday, December 4, 2020

Marcel Dalio: What a (French) Character!

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50 YEARS OF CHARACTER ROLES IN AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLASSICS I was watching Josef von Sternberg’s flamboyantly decadent noir The Shanghai Ges...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

The Gene Tierney Centenary, Pt. 2: "...carried by the winds and the tides"

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  Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920   Link to Pt. 1 Gene Tierney would admit that before...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

The Gene Tierney Centenary, Pt. 1: "I felt luck was with me"

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  Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920  ~ Marlene Dietrich once said, “The relationship betwee...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The Greater Than Great McGinty

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PRESTON STURGES SERVES UP POLITICAL SATIRE IN HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT There is Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby who aspired to a romantic fantasy that ...
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Saturday, August 8, 2020

AN EXCELLENT FORMULA!

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THE HITCHCOCK VILLAINS This is my contribution to Maddy's 4th Annual Alfred Hitchcock blogathon, click here to learn more... In...
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Friday, May 22, 2020

Gimme Shelter: Classics for Comfort, CMBA Spring Blogathon 2020

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The Classic Movie Blog Association is hosting its annual spring blogathon from May 19 – 22. This year’s theme is “Classics for Comfort,...
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