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Tag Archives: Barbara Bel Geddes
For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love
I post edited versions of this every year. I add names. I take names off sometimes, not because I now dislike the person but just because I feel like it. I enjoy compiling it but it’s not just about enjoyment. … Continue reading →
Posted in Actors, Art/Photography, Directors, Personal, writers
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Abigail Adams, Agnes Varda, Aline MacMahon, Amy Heckerling, Ann Savage, Anna Karina, Anne Frank, Anne V. Coates, Annie Proulx, art, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bibi Andersson, Brazil, Britney Spears, Busby Berkeley, Camille Paglia, Canada, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Rampling, China, Croatia, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Dubravka Ugrešić, Edie Sedgwick, Ellen von Unwerth, England, Etta James, Eve Babitz, France, Frances Farmer, Gena Rowlands, George Eliot, Georgia, Germany, Gloria Grahame, Golshifteh Farahani, Greta Garbo, Greta Gerwig, Harriet Andersson, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hong Kong, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Thulin, Iran, Ireland, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Jean Arthur, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Clayburgh, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Joan Jett, Joanna Hogg, Josephine Decker, Judy Garland, Julie Christie, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kay Francis, Keri Hulme, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Dern, Laurette Taylor, Leila Hatami, Lily Tomlin, Liv Ullmann, Louise Glück, Madeleine L'Engle, Madeline Kahn, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Smith, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Maud Gonne, Mélanie Laurent, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nancy Savoca, Natalie Portman, Nina Hoss, Nina Simone, Olivia Laing, Olympia Dukakis, Patricia Highsmith, Pauline Kael, photography, Poland, Rebecca West, Romania, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shabnam Toloui, Shirley Jackson, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Spain, Supernatural, Sweden, Tana French, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Netherlands, Tiffany Haddish, Tina Turner, Tuesday Weld, Wanda Jackson, women directors
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On This Day: March 24, 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway on this day, in 1955. Critic Brooks Atkinson, one of Williams’s staunchest supporters, wrote: “[The play seemed] not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life.” Ben Gazzara became … Continue reading →
Posted in On This Day, Theatre
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Tagged Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams
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October 2022 Viewing Diary
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020; d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland) Fascinating dual portraits. No “talking heads”. The entire thing is made up of their own voices, told in talk shows, or interviews. Amazing footage I’ve never seen before. Christine … Continue reading →
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
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Tagged Barbara Bel Geddes, Canada, Charlton Heston, comedy, crime movies, documentary, drama, film noir, George Stevens, Holly Hunter, horror, Jack Lemmon, James Gandolfini, Janet Leigh, Japan, Jean Arthur, Joe Berlinger, Joel McCrea, John Travolta, Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, Poland, Rebecca Hall, romantic comedy, Scotland, short films, Sissy Spacek, Tennessee Williams, true crime, Truman Capote, women directors
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Max Ophüls’ Caught (1949)
Shot by Lee Garmes, Max Ophüls’ Caught is deeply gorgeous, every shot a work of art, with all of these de-stabilizing points of view, and in-camera “tricks” where human beings seem either miniaturized or giganticized – depending on the power … Continue reading →
October 2017 Viewing Diary
11:55 (2016; d. Ari Issler, Ben Snyder) A Marine returns from the war in Iraq and gets sucked back into the criminal element in his old neighborhood, even as his sister, his girlfriend, his niece, plead with him to avoid … Continue reading →
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
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Tagged Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Stiller, dance, David Fincher, David Lynch, documentary, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, France, Garrett Hedlund, Gloria Grahame, Greta Gerwig, Harry Dean Stanton, Hong Kong, Jake Gyllenhaal, Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet, Mexico, Richard Linklater, Robert Altman, Robert Mitchum, Supernatural, women directors, Woody Allen
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The Long Night (1947), Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), The Fugitive Kind (1959)
The Long Night Directed by Anatole Litvak I saw this movie for the first time during my wintry month out on Block Island. I watched it in the teeth of one of the biggest storms I have ever experienced up … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ann Dvorak, Anna Magnani, Barbara Bel Geddes, drama, film noir, Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, reviews
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R.I.P. Ben Gazzara
It was my favorite type of career. Long-lasting, diverse, a little bit chaotic, not overly managed, with moments of brilliance, moments of just good workmanship … and you can tell, you can just tell, that his career has been about … Continue reading →
Posted in Actors, RIP
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Tagged Actors Studio, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Elia Kazan, John Cassavetes, Mildred Dunnock, Tennessee Williams, Tommy Lee Jones
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On This Day: March 24, 1955
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on this day, in 1955, in New York. Brooks Atkinson, one of Williams’s staunchest critic supporters, wrote: “[The play seemed] not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life.” The performances … Continue reading →
Posted in On This Day, Theatre
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Tagged Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams
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Today in history: March 24, 1955
Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway. It was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Ben Gazzara and Barbara bel Geddes. Williams was tormented by the writing of this play. He found it “messy”, and wrote … Continue reading →
Posted in On This Day, Theatre
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Tagged Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Elia Kazan
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PBS, Thank You for Broadway: The Golden Age
Last night, I happened to catch the final half-hour of a certain fund-raising drive on my local PBS channel – and they were showing an absolutely MARVELOUS documentary called Broadway: The Golden Age. It’s eventually going to be a 3-part … Continue reading →
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Tagged Angela Lansbury, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara, Eli Wallach, Gena Rowlands, Karl Malden, Laurette Taylor, Marlon Brando
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