Madinkbeard (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Click for larger size. Another one of these… Images stolen from the film The Furies (with the great Barbara Stanwyck). Text from another Google Book search, pieced together from various sources. Tags: 30_days_of_comics_09 Related posts Pine Away (4) 30 Days of Comics: 9 (1) 30 Days of Comics: 8 (2) 30 Days of Comics: 7 (0) 30 Days of Comics: 6 (4) 30 [...]
The Shelf (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A couple of 5-star worthy TCM news items to bring across the bow of the Shelf, and more from around the Shelf neighborhood: You may already know that Turner Classic Movies is hosting their first annual TCM Classic Film Festival April of 2010 in Hollywood, CA. They will be presenting more than 50 classic films, and hosted by Robert Osborne- with many talks and special guests such as Leonard Maltin,...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
ATLANTA, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- It's going to be a very special holiday for movie fans this year as Turner Classic Movies (TCM) presents the rarely seen gem Remember the Night during a December packed with holiday favorites. The critically acclaimed 1940 classic -- starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges -- will air several times throughout the month,...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
11/17 ~ Todays special boys and girls. Are you one of them? Mischa, Marty and Rachel 1897 Frank Fay , aka Mr. Barbara Stanwyck. The theory goes that their troubled marriage was the basis of A Star is Born . That story is so big it's practically it's own franchise. I can't stop thinking about it today: Stanwyck through the lens of Gaynor, Garland, Streisand. Yummy !) Even if it's only an urban LA legend,...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A new TV documentary on sex in cinema will include clips of MAE WEST — — which makes perfect sense. • • Denver Post TV columnist Joanne Ostrow writes: Expect a spicy clip assemblage when Starz recounts the sexiest, most sex-obsessed, sexually boundary-breaking and sexually shocking movies of all time. • • From "Lolita" to "Caligula" to "American...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Rent It THE SHOW: Miss Barbara Stanwyck made her motion picture debut in 1927 as an uncredited dancer in a film called Broadway Nights , and she took her final bow on the small screen sixty years later, a regular cast member on Dynasty -spin-off The Colbys . By any standards in any field, sixty years is a long time, and to remain a respected performer with as many credits under her belt as Stanwyck...
liebemarlene vintage (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Alexa Chung and Tennessee Thomas in the Wren Holiday Lookbook . . . . . . . . Sarah Sophie Flicker When I first saw the Wren holiday lookbook a while back I loved everything except maybe the sequins. The heart tights, the velvet, the little veiled cocktail hats--they were all wonderful and looked wearable, but the sequins scared me off for some reason. Well, I just never wear them. I think the last...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Phyllis: I think you're rotten. Walter Neff: I think you're swell - so long as I'm not your husband. Walter Neff: That was all there was to it. Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked.There was nothing to give us away. And yet, Keyes, as I was walking down the street to the drugstore, suddenly, it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy Keyes, but it's true, so help me,...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Two of these stars below are tied for suffering the most Oscar snubs among actresses: six defeats, no wins. Can you name them? To see the answer, click the "Continue Reading" link underneath the photos. ANSWER: Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter. Oscarless Rosalind Russell and Barbara Stanwyck lost four times each, Liv Ullmann twice. Two male stars lost more times than all of these women: Peter...
The Business Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Elsie Bush Please do not fool yourself, going to the store and searching for aisles and aisles of product, some are not accessible, some are not the version you need and is not available for your console as well. Downloading movies online is the most up-to-date and most useful method to play movies and enjoy in a couple of minutes rather than squander a whole afternoon shopping at the local video...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
J.C. Loophole of the Shelf passed on the interesting news that TCM has started a program where they will be providing Universal movies on demand . The movies available will include Paramount titles under Universal's control, with one of the first titles on sale being Paramount's terrific Christmas film REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940), starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. REMEMBER THE NIGHT will...
The Shelf (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Our friends at Turner Classic Movies have sent us word recently that this was going to happen, and today we received the official word and press release. As part of their ongoing Vault Collection series- TCM and Universal have entered into a partnership to bring to classic film fans more titles from Universal's library. These films are all digitally remastered, and will produced, akin to the Warner...
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
This year, Warner began to release a series of smaller films direct to the audience via the Warner Archive . Now, TCM is teaming up with Universal for their own releases. These DVD-Rs will be available via the TCM website One of my new favorites, the Barbara Stanwyck / Fred MacMurray Christmas film REMEMBER THE NIGHT, is one of the first films being released. Here are the details. The launch of TCM/Universal...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 8 Femmes Fatales Barbara Stanwyck was more versatile than she is often given credit for. Of course, there's Double Indemnity, and an assortment of noir outings, but I also like her pre-production code work. Not as vulnerable a presence as Gloria Grahame, but there is always the impression that below her tough exterior lurks someone more fragile, whose circumstances...
All The (Useless) Info... (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
By Dwight Workman For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. Hiroshima Mon Amour: Resnais first film is a considerate, difficult research of a French film actress Riva and Japanese designer Okada, each with a tough past, who have...
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