Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on February 14, 2021

I lived in Hollywood, once upon a time, on Poinsettia between Fountain and Santa Monica Blvd., not far from Melrose. It was the early '80s and I was working at a radio station on Sunset at North Genesee, across from the Screen Actors Guild. Ed Asner was the president of...   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on January 31, 2021

It was August 1944 and World War II was advancing toward its cataclysmic end when 20th Century Fox launched a heavily promoted biographical spectacular, Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of Wilson. A tribute to Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, and his vision for world peace, Wi   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on December 4, 2020

This is my entry for the annual What a Character! blogathon hosted by Paula at Paula's Cinema Club, Aurora of Once Upon a Screen and Kellee at Outspoken & Freckled. ~I was watching Josef von Sternberg’s flamboyantly decadent noir The Shanghai Gesture (1941) a while ago. Taking in the dens   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on November 23, 2020

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920 Link to Pt. 1 Gene Tierney would admit that before she married Oleg Cassini, “I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.” This crush of eligible fellows ran the gamut from Howa   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on November 19, 2020

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920 ~Marlene Dietrich once said, “The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.” Amusing, and probably true of some whose faces have graced the silver – or Tec   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on October 21, 2020

There is Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby, who chased a wondrous fantasy that sprang out of his disjointed vision of the American Dream. And there is Preston Sturges’s Dan McGinty whose aspirations didn’t, at first, extend beyond the opportunities of the moment, a warm bowl of soup, a coupl   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on August 8, 2020

THE HITCHCOCK VILLAINS This is my contribution to Maddy's 4th Annual Alfred Hitchcock blogathon, click here to learn more... ~ In 1962, French film director/critic Francois Truffaut spent a week sequestered at Universal Studios with Alfred Hitchcock, a filmmaker he admired extravagantly. Ther   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on May 22, 2020

The Classic Movie Blog Association is hosting its annual spring blogathon from May 19 – 22. This year’s theme is “Classics for Comfort,” about films that soothe us in difficult times. Click here for more info and links to participating blogs. ~ When we first began to shel   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on May 16, 2020

It's May 16, National Classic Movie Day, and Rick over at the Classic Film & TV Cafe is hosting his annual blogathon to celebrate the occasion. This year the subject is 6 from the '60s, in which each participating blogger puts the spotlight on six films of that decade. Click...   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on February 18, 2020

Great news! Midcentury Productions, the brilliant and groundbreaking little company that has so far staged six terrific French film noir festivals at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater over the past several years, is about to launch a new, unique series, Simenon 2020. The program begins with a doub   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on January 22, 2020

This is my entry for "The Wedding Bells Blogathon" hosted by Hometowns to Hollywood ~ She exchanged wedding vows for the first time at age 18 in 1950 and married for the eighth and final time in 1991 at 59. Of her apparent proclivity for collecting husbands, actor/composer/raconteur Oscar Levan   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on January 10, 2020

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the premiere of what has been called Ernst Lubitsch’s “most discreet tour de force of art concealing art,” The Shop Around the Corner (1940). That’s a nicely spun phrase; some might simply call it perfection… ~ When she was asked,   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on November 21, 2019

The much anticipated 11th annual Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival is now gearing up, set to happen in Hollywood April 16 - 19, 2020. The year's theme is "Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film" and tickets are on sale now at several price points: Spotlight $2449 Essential $999 Cl   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on November 17, 2019

This is my entry for the fabulous What a Character! blogathon hosted annually by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken & Freckled and Paula's Cinema Club...check these blogs for links to entries from all participating blogs. ~ In perhaps her best remembered scene in a classic film, Leo McCarey's   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on November 9, 2019

Parlez vous French noir? Three years ago I discovered French film noir thanks to Don Malcolm and his annual "The French Had a Name for It" film festival in San Francisco. Don heads MidCentury Productions and since 2014 MCP has presented yearly - and, lately, more frequent - noir screenings...   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on October 17, 2019

This post is my entry for the Classic Movie Blog Association's Fall 2019 Blogathon. This year we're honoring the CMBA's 10th anniversary with "The Anniversary Blogathon" and participating member bloggers are celebrating all manner of classic film and classic film-related anniversaries. Click here fo   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on August 26, 2019

...For the Vive la France Blogathon... 35 years after his death in 1984, François Truffaut is usually remembered as the most successful of the youthful filmmakers to emerge from the nouvelle vague (New Wave) movement that swept French cinema in the late 1950s. But before he would write and direc   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on August 25, 2019

Welcome to Day 1 of the Vive la France! blogathon. Our participating bloggers have chosen an exciting range of films and film-related subjects to celebrate French cinema, French stars, American films set in France and more. Links to posts are embedded in the titles in bold below. Enjoy! Sunday, Au   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on August 24, 2019

In 1946 four relatively recent American films inspired Italian-born French film critic Nino Frank to pen an article for the August 1946 issue of the newly launched film periodical L’écran française (The French Screen). Titled “A New Kind of Police Drama: the Criminal Adventure,” th   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on July 15, 2019

On July 14 the Vive la France! blogathon was announced. Set for Sunday, August 25, it will be hosted by this blog and Silver Screen Modes. The subject is broad and includes just about "everything" France/French-related. For example, French films, movies set in France, films or profiles of stars and   read more