Noirvember Day 3: Ann Blyth — In Person

In April 2013, I attended the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival for the first time. The event featured an amazing line-up of guest stars, including Mitzi Gaynor, Max von Sydow, Polly Bergen, Julian Sands, Coleen Gray, Norman Lloyd, and Tippi Hedren. And Ann Blyth. During the fest, I saw Blyth on t... Read full article

Fans frightened meeting Character Actors in Person

Fans React to Meeting Actors who play Frightening Characters on Screen Q: Who are these 1920s-30s baddies? "If for instance you play a bad woman on the screen most of your public take it Doreen Lang as 'Mother who is hysterical with fear' The Birds for granted that you're a worse woman off o... Read full article

The Queen of Technicolor, in person: Maureen O’Hara

Irish actress Maureen O’Hara, pictured here in the 1950s. Hundreds of people stood waiting, excitedly chattering. A line wrapped up and down an alley at least four times and stretched out to Hollywood Boulevard. When the doors to El Capitan Theater opened, people walked briskly, some even runn... Read full article

The Time I Saw Peter Falk in Person

When the news broke of Peter Falk’s passing, I remembered that I’d seen him in person many years ago. I was thirteen years old and I was with my family in Hollywood. We were on a big California vacation. I was about a year into my classic Hollywood obsession and was very impressed by t... Read full article