Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on April 18, 2021

If you’re a William Holden fan (and, really, how can you NOT be?), you may have enjoyed this handsome and talented actor in such noirs as The Dark Past (1948), Sunset Boulevard (1950), and Union Station (1950), but you haven’t lived until you’ve seen him in a little-known gem called...   read more

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on February 13, 2015

Six friends are sharing a New York City apartment. They’re all actors, struggling to find work. Three are men, and three are women: Norman Reese (William Holden), George Bodell (Eddie Bracken), Tony Dennison (James Brown — but not the James Brown), Marge Benson (Barbara Britton), Kate Be   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 6, 2013

Nope, it’s not pre-Code. Too late. And it’s not noir. Too zany. But Young and Willing, a Paramount production that no one seems ever to have heard of except me, is two things: it’s one of my favorite guilty pleasures and it’s a showcase for two future veterans of the...   read more