Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 21, 2012

It's been ages since we've had a look at one of the wonders of Egyptian cinema, hasn't it? Today, we revisit the glory days of 1950, when King Farouk looked serenely solid on his post-war throne, and Hollywood on Nile was addressing its longstanding moppet shortage by starring the remarka   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 21, 2012

It's been ages since we've had a look at one of the wonders of Egyptian cinema, hasn't it? Today, we revisit the glory days of 1950, when King Farouk looked serenely solid on his post-war throne, and Hollywood on Nile was addressing its longstanding moppet shortage by starring the remarka   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 5, 2012

May 5 must have been an auspicious date for Twentieth Century Fox - it's the birthday of two of the studio's biggest stars: Tyrone Power and the lovely lady seen here, Miss Alice Faye. It sounds like an odd sort of compliment, but Faye might have been the most normal...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 5, 2012

May 5 must have been an auspicious date for Twentieth Century Fox - it's the birthday of two of the studio's biggest stars: Tyrone Power and the lovely lady seen here, Miss Alice Faye. It sounds like an odd sort of compliment, but Faye might have been the most normal...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 2, 2012

May 2, 1989: In that magic moment, Geena and Jeff knew - they just knew - that stardom was forever, that their marriage was a golden, shining thing, and that in a few hours (after the premiere that they've gotten so dolled up for) their latest joint effort, Earth Girls...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 2, 2012

May 2, 1989: In that magic moment, Geena and Jeff knew - they just knew - that stardom was forever, that their marriage was a golden, shining thing, and that in a few hours (after the premiere that they've gotten so dolled up for) their latest joint effort, Earth Girls...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on April 26, 2012

Her name may ring only the faintest of bells today, but 86 years ago today, the tempestuous Spanish star Raquel Meller rated the cover of Time. She was, in her day, an international sensation, and while her vogue was fairly short (little better than a dozen years or so), she...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on April 26, 2012

Her name may ring only the faintest of bells today, but 86 years ago today, the tempestuous Spanish star Raquel Meller rated the cover of Time. She was, in her day, an international sensation, and while her vogue was fairly short (little better than a dozen years or so), she...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on April 18, 2012

Pardon the colorization on this one - sadly, it seems to be all the gods of Youtube will offer up to mark this, the 112th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake. Here, of course, we have the potent combo of Jeannette MacDonald and Clark Gable in MGM's 1936 blockbuster film...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on April 18, 2012

Pardon the colorization on this one - sadly, it seems to be all the gods of Youtube will offer up to mark this, the 112th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake. Here, of course, we have the potent combo of Jeannette MacDonald and Clark Gable in MGM's 1936 blockbuster film...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on March 26, 2012

54 years ago tonight, this handsome couple went for a spin at a little party after the Oscars. Aren't they perfect? Don't you wish they were your parents? I once saw this self-same couple, a few decades later; they were crossing the Plaza at Lincoln Center, on their way to...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on March 26, 2012

54 years ago tonight, this handsome couple went for a spin at a little party after the Oscars. Aren't they perfect? Don't you wish they were your parents? I once saw this self-same couple, a few decades later; they were crossing the Plaza at Lincoln Center, on their way to...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on March 12, 2012

This is the reason that Youtube was invented. It may be the reason the Internet was summoned up out of Al Gore's mighty brain. Watch and worship. [Lifted shamelessly from a new favorite destination, Nobody Puts Baby in a Horner, which I stumbled upon while trying to learn more about   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on March 11, 2012

Happy birthday, baby sister - Miss Dorothy Gish is 114 today. Too often remembered only in the shadow of Lillian, Dorothy had a quite respectable career of her own, appearing in a string of popular comedies in the late teens and early twenties, moving later in the deade into UK-made...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on March 11, 2012

This is the reason that Youtube was invented. It may be the reason the Internet was summoned up out of Al Gore's mighty brain. Watch and worship. [Lifted shamelessly from a new favorite destination, Nobody Puts Baby in a Horner, which I stumbled upon while trying to learn more about   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on March 10, 2012

Sometimes I ask myself, "Have I spent enough time lately thinking about Garbo?" If the answer is "no," I stop and stare at a portrait like this for a while. I really do think one can argue that hers is one of the most architecturally perfect faces known, on a...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 27, 2012

While we're in a '30s mood (not all that uncommon a phenomenon hereabouts, I know), let's stop for a moment and consider that Fab Fräulein, the lady who put the "Fasc[ism]" into Fascinating, the Prima Donna Assoluta of the Axis Screen, Swedish thrush Zarah Leander. Z-Lo, as I've taken t   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 27, 2012

If only she hadn't been up against the divine Glenn, I'd be totally thrilled. As it is, I'm pretty close. There's a joke there, but you'll have to make it. Wasn't she lovely? And isn't she still? Also, it makes me oddly happy that in private life, she's Mrs. Gummer.   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 26, 2012

As Oscar dawns all the way over there on the other side of this Good Earth, I'd like to take a moment to consider the prize's oldest living winner - yes, it's two-time Best Actress Luise Rainer, seen here in tweeds and faraway expression. "The Viennese Teardrop" is 102 now,...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on February 25, 2012

Ain't it the truth?   read more