A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on November 23, 2015

The death of fun-loving and beautiful Thelma Todd was one of Hollywood's most tragic deaths. Beautiful Thelma Todd She was a smart, beautiful movie star. She was loved by her public and by many men. Yet, somehow, Thelma Todd never seemed to be able to grab and hold that brass...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on November 10, 2015

'Tis the season to give your favorite film fan (who might just be yourself) a great holiday treasure. From the publisher: "Within a year of arriving in Hollywood in 1914, British-born Charlie Chaplin had become the slapstick king of America. By the end of his second year on the silver...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on October 28, 2015

This is my entry in The Universal Pictures Blogathon hosted by Silver Scenes. Click HERE for more Universal entertainment! The Sick Rose O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy And his dark...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on October 19, 2015

This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association Planes, Trains and Automobile Blogathon. Click HERE to view more fabulous entries about our favorite modes of transportation in film. Buster Keaton loved trains. “The General,” one of his most famous films, is about a man&#   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on October 11, 2015

This is my entry in the Hollywood's Hispanic Heritage Blogathon, hosted by the lovey Aurora at Once Upon a Screen. Click HERE for mucho more! I love this film. Everything about it feels authentic, everything from the town, the characters, the emotions and the secrets. It is my favorite John...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on September 20, 2015

There is no shortage of tragic star stories from Hollywood, but few stars ever get to write of their own dramatic demise. Alma Rubens is remembered not for her successful (but short) time as a movie star, but for the drug addiction that cut her career and her life short....   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on August 15, 2015

This is my entry in the Anti-Damsel blogathon, hosted by Movies, Silently. Click HERE for more great posts about the great, strong women of film. This post also serves as the second part of the 3-part series on Vamps. Click HERE for the first entry about Theda Babra and Nita...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on August 11, 2015

This is my contribution to the Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon, hosted by The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Click HERE for more great posts about this Royal Family of stage and screen. Kardashians? Nah - if I am going to spend reality time with a Hollywood family, Id much rather...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on July 16, 2015

Clarine Seymour and Robert Harron in "True Heart Susie" In 1919, both Bobby Harron and Clarine Seymour were the pets of director D.W. Griffith. Other than super-pet Lillian Gish, no one in the Griffith stock company seemed to have held a more secure place than Bobby. While not in the...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on July 5, 2015

A Fool There Was.... Virginia Pearson: a 2nd string vamp with big props When the flapper exploded into popular culture in the 1920s, women in film suddenly became more complicated. Before the woman of the 20th century appeared, there were usually only 2 types of women depicted in film: the...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on June 26, 2015

This is my entry in the Classic History Movie Project Blogathon hosted by the 3 divinities, Fritzi at Movies Silently, Ruth at Silver Screenings and Aurora at Once Upon a Screen. Please be sure to check out the great entries representing the entire history of the medium we love best....   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on June 26, 2015

This is my entry in the Classic History Movie Project Blogathon hosted by the 3 divinities, Fritzi at Movies Silently, Ruth at Silver Screenings and Aurora at Once Upon a Screen. Please be sure to check out the great entries representing the entire history of the medium we love best....   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 24, 2015

2015 is the year of the tragic star on A Person in the Dark. May's tragic star is Ramon Novarro. In 1925, Latin lover Ramon Navarro seemed to have it all. Coming off a starring role in the epic Ben Hur, he was poised to take a place at the...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 15, 2015

This post is part of the My Favorite Classic Movie Blogathon hosted by Rick at the Classic Film and TC Cafe in celebration of National Classic Movie Day (May 16th). Click here to view the schedule listing all the great posts in this blogathon. When Rick asked that we write...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on May 8, 2015

This is my entry in the Great Katharine Hepburn Blogathon hosted by Margaretperry.org. Click here for more about the Great Kate. What is style? Merriam Webster says it is: * a particular way in which something is done, created, or performed * a particular form or design of something *...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on April 28, 2015

This is my entry in the "Fabulous Films of the '30s" Blogathon, hosted by the Classic Movie Blog Association. Click HERE to view more fabulous posts about that fabulous decade and to earn more about this article's participation in an eBook for your reading pleasure. LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932)   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on April 11, 2015

This is my entry in the Great Villain Blogathon hosted by the wonderful gals at SPEAKEASY, SHADOWS AND SATIN and SILVER SCREENINGS. Click on their links for more dastardly deeds. Mrs. Iselin was the very bad mama from John Frankenheimer's masterly "Manchurian Candidate" (1962). It seems she like   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on April 2, 2015

This is my entry in the Pre-Code Blogathon, hosted by Pre-Code.Com and Shadows and Satin. Check both sites for more audacious entries! I used to get a real kick out of this film. It is loaded with pre-code antics up the yin-yang. But now, I can't help but view with...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on March 13, 2015

While 1963’s “Move Over Darling” can never top it’s inspiration source (1940‘s “My Favorite Wife” with the dynamic duo of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne), it stands on its own as a delightful piece of movie fluff. Good fluff isn’t easy. Fluff has to be lig   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on March 7, 2015

Oh those Russians - so passionate, so revolutionary, so ...Russian! This is my entry in the Russia in Classic Film Blogathon hosted by Movies Silently. Click here for a complete list of participants. Josef Von Sternberg's "The Last Command" (1928) has it all: World War I, the Russian Revolution   read more