Ample Sanity (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." Charlotte Whitton Reading anything written by Lesley Blume is such a delight. Creative, intelligent, independent nice women have inspired me ever since I first watched A Letter to Three Wives . Even as a girl, I identified with Linda Darnell's character, Lora Mae. Those of you...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 13 Still with the Femmes Fatales Linda Darnell in Otto Preminger's 1945 Angel Face, with Dana Andrews
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
it was only recently that i discovered tyrone power. i know, the man was a human gateau. in 1939 he did a cute film with linda darnell called 'day-time wife.' she is what my dad would call 'a living doll.' they were just darling together in this romp about a young couple starting out in a big city. while he is at work she secretly takes a job as a secretary to a man who (naturally) ends up a business...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
WISE GIRL is a brisk 71-minute RKO comedy which finds wealthy Miriam Hopkins moving into a bohemian Greenwich Village community in order to track down her late sister's children. The children are living with their paternal uncle, starving artist Ray Milland. This being a '30s comedy, once Hopkins and Milland meet can love be far behind? It's not an especially great movie, but it has a number of things...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
SUMMER STORM , an early film from director Douglas Sirk, will be released on DVD October 20, 2009. The movie stars Linda Darnell and George Sanders. I've never seen it and am really looking forward to catching up with it since it has such a great cast. SUMMER STORM will be released by VCI Entertainment . VCI has been regularly putting out interesting releases of classic films and TV shows. I just picked...
HorrorScope (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Fallen Angel (1945) Whirlpool (1949) These two fine, though minor, examples of film noir were directed by Otto Preminger, whose Laura (1944) retains its classic stature within the genre while these lesser efforts are typically relegated to a critical backwater. Nevertheless both are worthy in their own right -- dark crime thrillers that slide in and out of genre boundaries, but effectively create an...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Linda Darnell is one of my favorite actresses , so I recently took the plunge and purchased LINDA DARNELL, A PHOTO GALLERY: THE GIRL WITH THE PERFECT FACE by Brenda J. Mills. (Click the title of this post for the Amazon link.) The book is a softcover title which is 250 pages. Amazon says it was published last November by CreateSpace, but there is no traditional publishing information either at the...
Bubblegum Aesthetics (Free subscription) | 16/04/2009
...except that Campaspe mentioned the lovely Linda Darnell in her "10 Favorite Heretofore Unmentioned Movie Characters" post , and reminded me of what an underrated screen presence Darnell really was in the 1940s. So here's an evocative image of Darnell from her best film, Otto Preminger's haunting Fallen Angel .
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
IT HAPPENED TOMORROW is a charming, atmospheric period fantasy directed with great style by Rene Clair and acted with verve by Dick Powell and Linda Darnell. As Larry (Powell) and Sylvia (Darnell) celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, Larry reflects back on the strange few days during which he met and married Sylvia. That week in the 1890s was memorable for another reason: he received early editions...
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 03/02/2009
Linda Darnell Scheduled for release through United Artists, Summer Storm was directed by Douglas Sirk. Filming began in the spring of 1944, with The Wicked and the Weak as a working title. Linda got on well with Sirk, although things didn’t always progress smoothly. One particularly bad day, the director had shot sixteen takes of an important scene in a greenhouse. Linda grew tired, embarrassed,...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
The new banner is a woodcut by Guy Budziak, regular Shadowplayer and very possibly the leading proponent of the film noir woodcut. Buy one for the noirist in your life. Linda Darnell and Charles Bickford face off in Otto Preminger’s FALLEN ANGEL. And in other news, another regular Shadowplayer has started his own blog. Alex Livingstone’s Snakes [...]
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
I have no idea why I’ve never featured Linda Darnell, this wondrous redhead, before. ”What about that red hair, Kim'” Oh, twist my arm… - Comments
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
DAY-TIME WIFE is a sparkling '30s marital comedy starring two of the most gorgeous stars to ever grace Hollywood, Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. Jane (Darnell) suspects Ken (Power), her husband of two years, is two-timing her with his secretary Kitty (Wendy Barrie). Jane gets a job with an architect, Barney (Warren William) to find out what the life of a secretary is really like and figure out how...
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
Linda Darnell, studio portrait. Scan courtesy of Dr. Macro. I've had the pleasure of working with some of the best directors in Hollywood. On location and in the studio it's always fascinating to collaborate with gifted directors, and then sit back and watch as the actors breathe life into my pages. I've worked with directors who act as Freudian psychologists to elicit the proper emotions from actors....
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