Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 25, 2013

Alison Skipworth (1863-1952) Walter Brennan (1895-1974) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 24, 2013

Alan Curtis (1909-1953) Delmer Daves (1904-1977) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 24, 2013

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton Matt Phelan Candlewick Press, 2013 I've always had a crush on Buster Keaton. I don't find him sexy, but I moon over him. The nature of this infatuation has always baffled me, but after reading the new graphic novel Bluffton: My Summers with Buster...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 23, 2013

Gloria DeHaven (88) Michael Wilding (1912-1979) Florence Vidor (1895-1977) Harry Cohn (1891-1958) Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) Emil Jannings (1884-1950) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 22, 2013

James Whale (1889-1957) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 22, 2013

This post is my entry in the Barbara Stanwyck blogathon hosted by The Girl with the White Parasol. Go to her site to check out the rest of this amazing event. The idea of a woman empowering herself by polishing her appearance is familiar in the movies. Just think of...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 21, 2013

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Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 21, 2013

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering—because you can't take it all in at once. -Audrey Hepburn Image Source, Quote Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 20, 2013

Natalie Wood (1938-1981) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 19, 2013

Max Fleischer (1883-1972) Isabel Jewell (1907-1972) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 19, 2013

You can read this 1934 article from Movie Classic magazine to check out a slightly condescending article about Katharine Hepburn's "movie spankings" or you can obsess over the random soap ad with multiple references to "B.O." like I did. I didn't know they used that term in the 30s--Slate This...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 18, 2013

Lupe Velez (1908-1944) Red Skelton (1913-1997) Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) Phyllis Brooks (1915-1995) Richard Dix (1893-1949) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 17, 2013

Helen Walker (1920-1968) James Cagney (1899-1986) Diahann Carroll (78) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 16, 2013

Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) Mary Philbin (1902-1993) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 16, 2013

My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Biskind Henry Holt and Company/Metropolitan Books, 2013 What would it be like to eat lunch at a French restaurant with Orson Welles? According to My Lunches with Orson, you'd get a lo   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 15, 2013

Marjorie Rambeau (1889-1970) William Dieterle (1893-1972) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 14, 2013

Nancy Olson (85) Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) Annabella (1907-1996) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 14, 2013

"I’ve always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can’t afford it." What these men can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine—and before we know...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 13, 2013

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Classic Movies Posted by KC on July 12, 2013

Tod Browning (1880-1962) Milton Berle (1908-2002) Beah Richards (1920-2000) Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) Jean Hersholt (1886-1956) Louis B. Meyer (1884-1957) Image Source   read more