Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on July 20, 2016

Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep by Michael Schulman (Author) Print Length: 304 pages Publisher: Harper Collins (April 26 2016) “Her again “is exactly what I have said when watching the Academy Awards and Meryl Streep is nominated.  Michael Schulman crafts a fast paced look at Meryl Streep –from he   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on February 20, 2016

YOUNG ORSON The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane By Patrick McGilligan 832 pages with two 16 page photo inserts Publisher: Harper Collins This was my second excursion into the world of Orson Welles and was by far the most comprehensive to date.  My previous...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on October 25, 2015

In the first part of this series I took a capsule look at the Studio System with a nod to the use of drugs in order to produce and package the huge amount of product. It was not a complete look as many smaller operations such as PARAMOUNT PICTURES, RKO...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on October 1, 2015

I recently facinated viewed gruff speaking Aldo Ray in  pseudo noir picture NIGHTFALL (1957) Directed by Jacques Tourneur . The way this fellow moved with economy of motion, stood tall, and what was so important in pictures of that day is that he wore his clothes well. Ray never actually...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on August 14, 2015

Summers are wonderful times to enjoy pictures – some of which I enjoyed during the TCM SUMMER OF DARKNESS festival on Film Noir.  The rain felt warm, the dark was comforting, and dialogue was so sharp you could shave with it. There is morning even in a noir picture -however...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on July 18, 2015

When PVR was still the “stuff dreams are made of,” or there was a hotel chain by the name or a Steven Spielberg film with the title,  those of us that wanted to see a certain style of film had to wait for these pictures in the theatres. Read about...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on June 21, 2015

THE STUDIO GATES This is a slightly different look at the Hollywood myth – mainly because we are going to take a ‘hardboiled” look at some of the ideas that nostalgic sites gloss over. Not all sites do yet this is an important part of the Hollywood story.  Gloss over,...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on May 21, 2015

Hollywood was and still is filled with types – be they on the screen or not.  In fact, it was often remarked that you can expect anything to happen on Hollywood Blvd.  I remember making an inquiry in a bookshop only to have a person dressed in a red wool...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on May 18, 2015

Outside the lonely foreboding mansion, thunder booms and lightning flashes in the sky. The approaching storm illuminates the large, time-worn building where inside the heroine is about to enter a secret staircase. The door slides ominously open, revealing a staircase down into the neither regions o   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on April 21, 2015

Digital power has brought motion pictures to a new audience.  The discs (or the next format) gives us all an opportunity to hold motion picture history.  The recent TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles may have looked at first glance like it was going backward from that. THE RETURN...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on April 11, 2015

STARDUST AND SHADOWS A Classic Hollywood Blog now has a utube channel simply called STARDUST AND SHADOWS  A Classic Hollywood Channel.  Its a place to post more video content plus more interviews in the future. We already have some items posted so feel free to Check it  out. STARDUST AND SHADOWS...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on April 1, 2015

There comes a time when one must pack up and get back to actual life. If you’re lucky, you get to continue with your love of film.   For some it is their full time job; for others, it can be an all- consuming hobby or Labour of Love. We try...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on March 29, 2015

The consuming of liquor has been a catalyst in Classic Hollywood since they were known as the “flickers.” The liquid has brought about the downfall of many a film character both on screen and off. I am writing this post in the TCM Club lounge during the 2015 Classic film...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on March 29, 2015

I can say that you lose track of the time of day and even what day it is when you attend a film festival. I have found myself asking what day it is. You are not in the real world of whatever it is you do.  You have stepped into...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on March 29, 2015

Film festival attending can be a mixture of working the crowd, finding what you want to see, and having to make decisions when items are crossed booked.  There are no bad decisions if you attend an event such is what is happening with us at the 2015 TURNER CLASSIC FILM...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on March 27, 2015

Hello all raw footage form me on the red carpet in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater not far from where the Academy ward are done. STARDUST AND SHADOWS make it to the red carpet in Hollywood.  Sorry for audio. turn it up   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on March 19, 2015

The Golden Age of Hollywood is filled with brilliant successes and dismal failures. The film community likes a feel good story. That continues to this day.  Fitting in this category is the tragic end of Millicent Lilian Entwistle, simply known as “Peg.” She was born in Port Talbot, Wales and...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on January 26, 2015

The look of Hollywood has always been one of the alluring aspects of what makes up the legend of the Golden Age.   Although the exact start of the Golden Age is debatable, many agree that style influences in American film making were between the years 1927 to 1963.  In broad...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on December 12, 2014

One of the pleasures I get from writing about Hollywood as it was it is finding out more about some of the actors that don’t get mentioned yet give some startling performances. Warren William, most likely the personification of cad, scoundrel, swindler and non-repentant womanizer in Pre-code cinema   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on October 17, 2014

It is not often I post about war pictures as Classic Film, so I thought I would put my boots in on the Otto Preminger directed picture IN HARM’S WAY (1965) with John Wayne and a host of others. Wayne crossed many genres, yet he will be forever remembered as...   read more