Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 7, 2013

Tales of a Hollywood Housewife: A Memoir by the First Mrs. Lee Marvin iUniverse Betty Marvin, 2010 When I reviewed the marvelous Lee Marvin: Point Blank earlier this summer, I was especially charmed by the stories told about him by his first wife, Betty Marvin. She was the most important...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on June 17, 2013

Housewife (1934) Sadly, this advertisement is more interesting than the film. "Housewife," a Warner Brothers factory product of 1934, is pretty much a stinker (but not, as Bette Davis referred to it years later, "a horror"). Bette probably hated it because her part, as the vampish bachelor-career   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on April 23, 2013

Housewife (1934). Drama. Directed by Alfred E. Green. Ann Dvorak, George Brent and Bette Davis. Nan Reynolds, tries to run a household on her lazy, self centered husband Bill's small salary as an office manager. She wants him to find a better paying job, but he does not seem to...   read more

MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on March 26, 2013

Housewife (1934) In the olden days, women stayed at home, raised the kids, planned parties and didn’t ask what their husbands had been up to when they were “working late.” The subject made a great movie in the form of 1936′s Wife vs. Secretary, but in 1934 it did not make...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on January 19, 2010

Oh, dear - time in its flight; Edith Bunker is 87 years old today. Rather, of course, the great lady who played her, Jean Stapleton, has reached that great age.All in the Family and being Edith may have been what made Stapleton a household name, but real Jeanketeers love her...   read more