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Category Archives: Actors
Gena Rowlands Waiting
Last week was suddenly taken over by a Gena-Rowlands-Frenzy. I hadn’t planned for it or scheduled it into my calendar, but it arrived and I had to make room. This situation was due to being hired to pen the tribute … Continue reading
Gena Rowlands
Pay tribute. Gena Rowlands in “Opening Night” (1977)
Review: A Question of Love: 1978 TV Movie starring Gena Rowlands
Alongside her film career, Gena Rowlands worked constantly in television (and this was true from her earliest days in the 1950s.) Her husband John Cassavetes also worked constantly in television and film, with key roles in (famously), The Dirty Dozen … Continue reading
“I couldn’t get rid of him so I married him.” – Gena Rowlands on John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Photo by Sam Shaw They were married from 1954 until his death in 1989.
Another Announcement: Gena Rowlands’ Lifetime Achievement Oscar
It’s Announcement City on my site these days. On November 14, the Oscars hold their separate ceremony for the Lifetime Achievement Award people (this year it’s Gena Rowlands, Spike Lee, and Debbie Reynolds), as well as the Humanitarian Award. Gena … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Lillian Gish
While re-arranging my library, which meant removing many many books, I turned around and saw this tableau. Not only did Lillian Gish get her start in the earliest days of cinema, helping to basically “invent” the closeup, under the direction … Continue reading
Outrage (1950); Directed by Pioneer Ida Lupino: A Powerful Examination of Rape and Its Aftermath
Ida Lupino was an anomaly, a phenom, a pioneer. She was an actress, of course, a woman whose acting career stretched from the early 1930s to Columbo episodes in the mid-1970s. At first her roles were insignificant, like in Artists … Continue reading
“I feel I am an actress. I feel I have talent.” – Rita Hayworth
Wonderful 1967 interview with Rita Hayworth, on Gilda, the old star system, and being stereo-typed. Hayworth was grateful for what Gilda did for her (she became the biggest star in the world – and she was alREADY beloved by American … Continue reading
Barbara Meek, Part 2: Patsy Rodenburg’s Lecture “Why I Do Theatre”
Please watch. It’s so important. Acting teacher Patsy Rodenburg gives one of the most extraordinary explanations from any artist about why they do what they do, why they put up with the bullshit, what they are really after in such … Continue reading
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