San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
As part of its celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Greatest Year in Movies (1939), the Castro Theatre is presenting nine days of double features from that year, in glorious black and white. "Gunga Din," featuring (from left) Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The March issue of Vanity Fair has an article ("It happened at the Hotel de Cap") about Marlene Dietrich, focusing on her relationship with Joseph P. Kennedy. It details her role as the prototypical sexually liberated woman of her era, a role which included trysts or affairs with such celebrities as Yul Brynner, Adlai Stevenson, Frank Sinatra, Joseph Kennedy (and later Jack), Erich Remarque,...
The Fylde and Wyre Antiquarian (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Number Six: The Pirate of St Chad’s In St Chad’s churchyard, in Poulton of course, (just behind the apse if memory serves) can be found one of the Wyre’s most enduring – if not highly inaccurate – oddities, that being the grave of a pirate as shown in the photograph below. Generations of school kids (myself included) have re-enacted over the centuries the ritual of standing...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The working-class girl who became the last great society hostess
Conservative Gothic (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Yes, finally. Dredging up comments of at least some form on eight movies, including James Cagney's cameo in Starlift ; The Corsican Brothers and The Young in Heart , both starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Carnegie Hall , with Frank McHugh; Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn , starring Bruce Campbell; the Peter Lorre double feature of Crime and Punishment and Island of Doomed Men ; and Dead End , with Humphrey...
Cinedelica (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
The early 1930s was the era of the gangster movie - and that era, along with all that followed, is being celebrated with the Gangsters season at the BFI in July. From the original era, you can enjoy the likes...
Conservative Gothic (Free subscription) | 04/13/2009
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. has achieved squee. I'll save the commentary for a future ramble, but as it turns out, The Corsican Brothers is among my top two or three classic movie finds so far this year. Hey, when a guy I'm becoming partial to anyway gets a sword in his hand-- and the story has a certain angsty fantasy element--I cannot be blamed for the consequences. *g* We'll see where the squee leads....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
The spirit of Douglas Fairbanks is alive and well and living in Beverly Hills.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
Coy Watson Jr., who appeared in Mack Sennett comedies and other silent films before abandoning acting for a long career as a newspaper and TV news photographer, has died at 96.
Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
Coy Watson Jr., who appeared as a child with Mary Pickford and Jackie Coogan in silent films before abandoning acting for a long career as a newspaper and television news photographer, has died at 96. Watson, who lived in the San Diego suburb of Alpine, died Saturday of complications of stomach cancer, his daughter, Pattie Watson [...]
Resolutions (Free subscription) | 01/26/2009
The Incredible Hulk goes for a stroll. Wonder Woman also strolls. Elvis has a lively conversation in Spanish. In my first trip to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, I discovered this section of Buddhist shrines. Silence. This is the final resting place of Douglas Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Late afternoon. Note the Hollywood sign on the mountains, visible if you squint. The first hooded mergansers...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
THE RAGE OF PARIS is another delightful film directed by Henry Koster . I had never heard of this movie until it came up in my Amazon recommendations a few months ago. It caught my eye since it stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and the price was so low I decided to get it. My younger children saw the film shortly after it arrived and loved it, and I finally caught up with it myself this evening. The plot...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
ANGELS OVER BROADWAY is an exceedingly strange film about three people -- a hustler (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a chorus girl (Rita Hayworth), and an alcoholic playwright (Thomas Mitchell) -- who rescue a suicidal man (John Qualen) one rainy evening in New York. The film's action takes place in a single night, as the threesome work to find a way their new friend can obtain $3000 to replace funds he'd...
boy culture (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
Hugh Jackman breaks out Wolverine for Empire (January 2009). Definitely the most fuckable Oscar host since Douglas Fairbanks (who wasn't as fuckable as Douglas Fairbanks Jr.): One more shot—of him in character as Hugh Jackman instead of in character as...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Obituary: Hollywood actor whose career bridged silent and talkie eras
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