ABC TV (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Morning Glory1:35am Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 Repeat CC G Innocence is lost when a naive country girl goes to New York with aspirations of becoming a Broadway star. CAST: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Adolphe Menjou DIR: Lowell Sherman (1933)
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Sinbad The Sailor1:55am Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008 Repeat CC G Sinbad sails the seas to find a hidden treasure. CAST: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn, George Tobias, Jane Greer, Mike Mazurki DIR: Richard Wallace (1947)
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Lucille Le Sueur, newlyweds, lounge in the sun. Fairbanks was born into Hollywood stardom (his father being the silent film star --subtract the "Jr") and Lucille was on her way to household name status as "Joan Crawford" . They were 20 and 23 years old respectively (yes, Joan was an older woman... always a rebel, that one) This photo was taken for Vanity Fair's October 1929...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Ginger Rogers plays a secretary who shares a crowded Bronx apartment with her parents and her sister's family. She saves for a two-week vacation at a Catskills resort, and thanks to meeting camp staffer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., she is soon HAVING WONDERFUL TIME. The film calls to mind later summer resort romances, such as TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE (1950) and DIRTY DANCING (1987). HAVING WONDERFUL TIME is a...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Tim Robey reviews Joan Crawford: Not the Girl Next Door by Charlotte Chandler
scanners (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
View image The beginning of the dissolve (recall, with nostalgia, when Paramount was A Gulf + Western Company'). View image The new/old Paramount Pictures Presents. (... or "You're a Better Man Than I Am, Short Round") This is a contribution...
GreeneSpace (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The New York Times' coverage of the death of A&P heir Huntington Hartford includes a video of his art museum on Columbus Circle , which was designed by Edward Durell Stone. You know what other building was designed by Edward Durell Stone? The one I've worked in the last seven years--the University of Alabama Law School! It's a pretty cool building--has a couple of spiral staircases and is reminiscent...
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
As part of its Cannes coverage The Hollywood Reporter mentions a couple of prospective movie remakes: CANNES — MGM could be bringing back the Cold War. “Red Dawn,” John Milius’ 1984 tale of a group of American rebels fighting Soviet forces, is a candidate for a remake, studio toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent revealed Saturday at the American Pavilion in Cannes. They also confirmed that 1987’s “Robocop”...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Today seemed to be the day for viewing movies set on the French Riviera. After finishing BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE , I watched THE YOUNG IN HEART, which opens in France, although the majority of the film is set in England. THE YOUNG IN HEART is a beautifully acted comedy-drama produced by David O. Selznick. The movie is about the Carletons, a family of card sharps and con artists who use their trickery...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
It wasnt lunch, and there was no boat, but the Phillips Collection did as much as possible to capture the festive spirit of the museums most famous work, Pierre Auguste Renoirs "Luncheon of the...
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Tinsel Town gossip hounds have been working overtime after it was learned handsome actor Robert Urich actually is ... dead ! Could other well-know Hollywood celebrities be living secret lives ... as dead people ? Grant Miller Media checked with it's best celebrity sleuths and found many Hollywood A- Listers actually are ... flatliners ! The names may surprise you: Dead: Eddie Albert Bill Bixby John...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
(photo via) The great American diplomat and Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson may have well been talking about Li’l Abner creator Al Capp when he said, “Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.” In the final decade of his life, Capp launched vitriolic attacks against everybody and anything that didn’t adhere to his [...]
LaurenceJarvikOnline (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
I had not idea that 1940 was such a good year for movies. First, City for Conquest (scroll down), now Angels Over Broadway . This noir melodrama was written, produced, and directed by Ben Hecht. It's one of the best movies I've seen. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is great, Rita Hayworth is terrific, Thomas Mitchell steals the show, and John Qualen gives a deeply moving performance as a suffering soul. Don't...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Sinbad sails the seas to find a hidden treasure. CAST: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn, George Tobias, Jane Greer, Mike Mazurki DIR: Richard Wallace (1947)
Gawker (Free subscription) | 01/28/2008
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has a very very strange and deep obsession with the 1940 romantic screwball comedy "The Philadelphia Story." He named Spy after the paper for which Jimmy Stewart's...
