Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on October 27, 2012

Outcast Lady(1934). Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Hugh Williams. Sir Maurice, disproves of Iris March and his sons Napier Harpenden's, up coming marriage, because he believes that Iris will hurt his son's political career. As   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 24, 2012

The Letter (1929), is a drama film which was made in both silent and talking versions by Paramount Pictures. Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen and Herbert Marshall, and was directed by Jean de Limur. Eagels was posthumously put "under consideration" for nomination for the Academy A   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 24, 2012

Personal Quote: I am still a little nervous, a little self-conscious about my English. I cannot express myself well at parties. I speak haltingly. I feel awkward, shy, afraid. In Hollywood, where every teat table bristles with gossip-writers, what I say might be misunderstood. So I am silent as   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 23, 2012

Camille(1936). Director: George Cukor. Produced: Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymor   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 21, 2012

This is my contribution to Letter the Stars Blogathon. Hosted by: Marcela (Best of the Past): http://best-ofthepast.blogspot.com.br/ Rianna (Frankly, my dear): http://franklymydear-blog.blogspot.com/ Natalie (On the Mood): http://theswingmood.blogspot.com/ Please click on poster located on   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 19, 2012

Wise Girl(1937). Romantic/comedy. Cast: Miriam Hopkins and Ray Milland. The story begins when the rich, socialite Susan, travels to the Greenwich Village incognito, to take two little girls' away from the charming artist and free spirit John O'Halloran, who is taking care of his dead brother's   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 18, 2012

The Old Maid (1939). Director: Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella The Old Maid: the fifties. On the day of Delia Lovell's wedding to socially...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 17, 2012

Personal Quote: (In a 1990 interview, Garson deplored the violence of many modern films) "I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilt   read more

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Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 14, 2012

Neptune's Daughter (1949). Musical/ romantic/ comedy Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc. Directer: Edward Buzzell. Features the Academy Award winning song Baby, It's Cold Outside by Frank Loesser. Neptune's Daughter was   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 11, 2012

The Law in Her Hands (1936)Directed by William Clemens. Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull and Lyle Talbot. Two best friends Mary Wentworth and Dorothy Davis, work as waitress to pay their way through law school. After, passing the bar exam the girls open their own practice. Th   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 9, 2012

Personal Quote: (speaking in the 1960s) "It would be wrong of me to say so, but in this country (USA) money is more important than love. Most people here betray you and that's why there is so much chaos. I want to get away from here. I am homesick for...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 7, 2012

Riffraff(1936). Cast: Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by Frances Marion, Anita Loos, and H. W. Hannaford. Directed by J. Walter Ruben. As the fishermen are all about to strike against tuna cannery boss Nick Lewis, Dutch Muller talks them out of it, realizing that Nick wants   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 5, 2012

BEST FILM REVIEW (DRAMA) Movie Review: The Gunfighter, The Girl with the White Parasol, http://www.thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-review-gunfighter.html BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome [6 parts]: Part 1:   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 4, 2012

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942). Adventure film. Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Elsa Lanchester, John Carradine and Roddy Mc Dowell. This period swashbuckler film is based on the adventure novel Benjamin Blake by Edison Marshall, who also wrote Th   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 2, 2012

Personal Quote: (On her poverty-stricken childhood in Brooklyn): No one wanted me in the first place. Often I was lonesome, frightened and miserable. I never had a doll in my life. I never had any clothes, and lots of times didn't have anything to eat. We just lived, and that'a...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on October 1, 2012

The End of the Affair(1955). Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, Peter Cushing and John Mills. It is based on the novel The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. It was filmed in London, around the Chester Terrace. Gregory Peck was offered the male lead. After...   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Silentfilmfanatic on September 28, 2012

A Tribute to Mary Philbin Even though Mary Philbin is best known for unmasking Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925), she was in a number of Universal’s best known productions of the 1920’s. Born on July 16, 1903, in Chicago, Mary had a strict Irish Cathol   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on September 28, 2012

Pagan Love Song (1950). A beautiful south seas musical, where everyone lives in the sun and looks out for each other. This is one of my favorites films from the Esther Williams DVD volume II collection. A tanned Esther Williams plays a Half-Tahitian Half- American woman.( Mimi Bennett), who li   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on September 25, 2012

Boy Trent: Born September 24, 2012. 9:30 AM. 6 LBS 11 oz. 21 inches long.   read more