Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on July 28, 2012

Meet the latest member of the family of Carole Lombard Paramount p1202 portraits. It's p1202-537 to be precise, from 1933, showing Carole in what might be described as a feminized version of a doughboy hat. You can see part of a diamond brooch at the bottom.Think you may have seen...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on June 4, 2012

Three Carole Lombard photos are in today's entry, and two of them are from movies that are labeled differently from what they're supposed to represent. Take the one above, for instance. Here's what the snipe on the back says about it:"The Beachcomber." you say? Paramount indeed filmed the story, and   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 28, 2012

Katharine Hepburn, on her mother at Bryn Mawr (who was absolutely awesome and worked with Margaret Sanger for women’s rights)(Source: winterwindz)   read more

True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 11, 2012

by Lisa McCarty I don’t remember going to many movies when I was younger. We weren’t big moviegoers, though we watched a lot of movies on television thanks to the wonders of cable. When I was in the second grade, my mother took me to see a re-release of The...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on April 25, 2012

I don’t know how I first came upon Stacia’s site, She Blogged by Night, but I do remember being impressed by her blog name. That’s always a good start, eh? Her posts live up to that clever moniker too. Anyone who has equal room in her heart for Marie Prevost...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on February 27, 2012

One of Carole Lombard's most famous publicity attempts came...by being a publicist. In July 1938, she spent a week handling studio publicity for Selznick International, under the watchful eye of Russell Birdwell (one of the best in the business) but otherwise running the show. (She wrote about it a   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on January 24, 2012

Sly and the Family Stone's hit "Everyday People" was still three decades in the distance when "Made For Each Other" hit movie screens in February 1939. But as a way of preparing audiences for a different, dramatic side of Carole Lombard, Selznick International Pictures and its renowned publicist, Ru   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on January 2, 2012

In light of Loretta Young’s wholesome screen image in the 1940s and 1950s, it has been a real kick for me to discover her pre-Code films. I’ve already discussed two of them at Shadows and Satin – Born to Be Bad and Employees Entrance – and I’m also fond of...   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on January 1, 2012

“Uh uh — can look, but mustn’t touch. Say, listen — just because you’re a customer, I don’t have to let you move in, body and soul, do I? Now you be a good little boy, and take your little kiddie car, and go on home before your wifey finds...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on November 8, 2011

For someone who lived slightly less than one-third of a century, Carole Lombard resided in more than a few homes. So let's check them out (as best we can), using Google Earth's search. (Perhaps I've missed one or two along the way.)We'll naturally begin with her birthplace in 1908 in...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on August 19, 2011

When Dawn of Noir and Chick Flicks chose this blog among her honorees for The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award, did she know of my overwhelming admiration for strawberry shortcake? Of all the awards in all the cyberspace, what could be more appealing than that fruity, creamy, flaky goodness? Of cou   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on March 11, 2011

She Couldn't Say No(1954). Cast: Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. After returning to her childhood home in Progress, Arkansas from England, where oil heiress Corby Lane lived for many years. Corby,is on a mission to repay the town for paying for the life-saving operation when s   read more

True Classics Posted by Brandie on March 3, 2011

In the mid-1930s, the screwball comedy was still a relatively new subgenre of film. Many critics label It Happened One Night, released in 1934, as the first “screwball” picture ever produced, and subsequent films such as Twentieth Century (also 1934) and Hands Across the Table (1935) bui   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on June 9, 2010

Whistle Stop(1946). Director: Leonide Mogur. Cast: George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLagle, Tom Conway and Jane Nigh.When Mary returns home to sell her house, her first stop is to visit Molly Veech. Mary was in love with Molly's son Kenny, a lazy bum who's stuck in a small town, indulged...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on May 26, 2010

She Went To the Races(1945). Director: Willis Goldbeck. Cast Frances Gifford, James Graig and Ava Gardner. I did not get home in time to see the movie Heavenly Body, but.. I did catch the movie, She Went to the Races. I was surprised that it was such a cute movie...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on April 13, 2010

Besides acting on the stage, Bennett performed in more than 70 films from silent movies into the sound era. She is best known for her film noir femme fatale performance in, The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945). My favorite Joan Bennett performances are: Amy March in...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 19, 2010

The ranks of Hollywood royalty have thinned just a little this week, with the passing to Fabulon of MGM's prestige soprano of the early '50s, Miss Kathryn Grayson. Her brand of wholesome, high-brow appeal - a slightly too sweet amalgam of coloratura and cleavage - may not have aged particularly...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on October 9, 2009

The jury's in, and the mystery's solved. Thanks to the mysterious "Anonymous" and seconded by dear normadesmond, it can be revealed that the Dark Lady of two days ago is none other than the favorite blonde of a Certain Newspaper Magnate, the resplendent (if at times chinny) Miss Marion Davies.Hearst   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 22, 2009

A barnyard's worth of animals enjoy a typical 1930's evening at the movies: a newsreel, novelty short subject and a sing-along. And of course there's the main feature, The Petrified Florist, with slightly off, but still pretty funny caricatures of Bette Davis and Leslie Howard.   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on July 21, 2009

If there is any proof at all that even the best drugs only do so much, it is the quite extraordinary version of the 1927 silent classic Metropolis that disco overlord Giorgio Moroder brought to birth in 1984. Moroder took one of the most visually overwrought and (thanks to gener   read more