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Category Archives: Actors
The heart has a memory … and I am the most loyal woman I know …
… which is why when I saw this cool star map showing the “timeline” of what extraterrestrials will be watching if they have been receiving and monitoring our TV waves (and it appears that this is a very American-centric drawing … Continue reading
Ease: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in Morning Glory (1933)
Some actors seem to believe that unless they SHOW all the work they have done, their job is meaningless. And if you don’t congratulate them on all the work up there on the screen, they will most definitely remind you. … Continue reading
The poster that begs for secrecy
I love how the poster for the film The Boy with Green Hair (seen here) begs the audience to not tell why the boy’s hair turned green in order to save the surprise for other audiences. Young Dean Stockwell is … Continue reading
Who’s that man.
He seems awfully familiar.
Only Angels Have Wings: “Lock the doors. Judith’s lost her equilibrium.”
I love to hear Rita Hayworth get her well-deserved props as a capable and wonderful actress. She was a newbie (pretty much) when she appeared as Judith, the wife of the hated flier MacPherson, in Only Angels Have Wings, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings, Rita Hayworth
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Suntory: Follow the Dancing Fingers
Mickey Rourke’s old Suntory commercials (echoed years later in Bill Murray’s funny and sad portrayal of a movie star adrift in Japan in Lost in Translation) are awesome, he’s at the height of his powers, so he’s phoning it in, … Continue reading
“She knows this scene is a large opportunity, but she doesnât milk it; she stays true to the character, the real, strange person who is always alive somewhere even in Kahnâs most outrageous inventions.”
Not to be missed: Dan Callahan’s 5 for the day: Madeline Kahn.
Francois Truffaut on Sgt. J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17
This is, perhaps, the best analysis of that character, played by William Holden, that I have ever read. Sefton is intelligent; that’s why he acts as he does. For the first time in films the philosophy of the solitary man … Continue reading
I like to think …
that in a former life I was one of these girls. When I was 13 years old, I started a novel about a Ziegfeld girl. I had no idea what I was talking about. I hadn’t even kissed someone, but … Continue reading
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Getting Normal: Howard Hawks to Peter Bogdanovich on “Bringing Up Baby”
From Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors, by Peter Bogdanovich By the end of the film, would you say that [Cary] Grant has abandoned his scientific life? Well, let’s say he mixed it. He had an … Continue reading