Opelika-Auburn News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
In the first of these columns about a century ago, I told my reader that if we were to be able to carry on a decent conversation, there were a couple of reference books he needed to have close at hand.
Travel (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
By Nona Robertson Look below if you came to see motion picture reviews. Here are some ways to find movie download sites. There are a lot of different phrases you can use, try "Download Full Length Movie", "Online Video Rentals", or "Music Services". The Bullfighters: This is one of the better Laurel and Hardy later works, engaging false identity as Stan is a lookalike...
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
IN THE MEANTIME, DARLING is the story of newlyweds Maggie and Danny (Jeanne Crain, Frank Latimore), who live in a hotel with other military families during World War II. The hotel is located in Victorville, California, near Danny's desert training camp. Maggie is from a wealthy family -- her parents are played by Eugene Pallette and Mary Nash -- and she struggles to fit into her new environment, especially...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
HOME IN INDIANA is an old favorite I hadn't seen in years. I taped it a few months ago and caught up with it tonight. Labor Day weekend is the perfect time for watching this piece of autumnal Americana about horse farms and harness racing. HOME IN INDIANA introduced three new faces to the movies: Jeanne Crain, June Haver, and Lon McCallister. The three young actors were paired with a trio of the all-time...
Lowry Updates (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
I was sitting here this morning, answering mail, when I happened to glance at this container of scissors. Three cheers for whoever invented scissors. They really are quite ingenious, aren't they? Someone, sometime, after using a knife to cut a...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The 1945 musical version of STATE FAIR is one of my favorite movies, so I've always avoided the 1962 remake. The remake stars Pamela Tiffin, Bobby Darin, Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, and Alice Faye in the roles previously played by Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, and Fay Bainter. Recently I've enjoyed Pamela Tiffin in ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) and COME FLY WITH ME (1963), which made...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
while listening to the commentary for 'all about eve' i learned that jeanne was passed over for the role of 'eve' as she was not considered a good enough actress. well, that may have been but i have seen her in lots of movies and she's really good.
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
MARGIE is one of my very favorite Jeanne Crain movies, along with STATE FAIR (1945) and APARTMENT FOR PEGGY (1948). It's the charming story of an awkward teenager turning into a lovely young woman during the Roaring '20s. Margie (Crain) lives with her maternal grandmother (Esther Dale); Margie is anxious for the attention of her widowed father (Hobart Cavanagh), who lives elsewhere in town, although...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
Screened July 11 2009 on 20th Century Fox DVD in Brooklyn NY TSPDT rank #957 IMDb Wiki Joseph Mankiewicz’ wittily scripted, innovatively structured survey of distaff martial life at the brink of the Eisenhower era pits three middle class wives against an impossible feminine ideal. Addie Ross, the omniscient, goddess-like narrator who opens the film with withering [...]
Steve Canyon On DVD (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
Looking towards the future: (click picture for larger image) Here's Steve Canyon creator/artist/writer Milton Caniff hamming it up with lovely actress Jeanne Crain, (from around the time of the Steve Canyon TV series) Just a brief post to catch everyone up on what's happening on the Steve Canyon run-up pad! We have commenced work on Volume 3 and it's moving along nicely. Some of the VERY BEST episodes...
Dum Spiro Spero (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Last week I booked two jobs in the city of Izmir, which is an hour flight south of Istanbul, and is referred to as the "Pearl of the Aegean." Hopefully I'll be able to share some photos and details of my trip later, but for now, I wanted to share what I found stuffed in a corner of the photo studio: three vintage issues of Photoplay Magazine. What a nice surprise! The above issue, featuring...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
I got a copy of O. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE ages ago, through my sister-in-law taping it off Sky Cinema, and of course failed to watch it. All I knew at the time was that it was a compendium film adapting stories by O. Henry, and that one episode was directed by Howard Hawks. I had [...]
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Tonight I watched I'D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN, a lovely little film about a Georgia minister and his wife which I'd not seen since I was a teenager. The minister is sincerely played by William Lundigan ( I'LL GET BY ); he is so strong in the lead, it's surprising to me he didn't have more of a career. Lundigan is well matched by Susan Hayward as his devoted bride, who has a funny feisty side which...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Chuck Arnold (Dan Dailey) is the leader of a successful dance band touring the Midwest in the late '20s. One night at a dance the older, more worldly Chuck meets sweet young Peggy Mayhew (Jeanne Crain), and the two instantly discover they share a combustible chemistry. Within 24 hours, Chuck convinces Peggy that YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME and they marry. Chuck and Peggy both work to adapt to life as a married...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
Web Exclusive: Helmer best known for 'Hell's Angels' feature -- Director Lee Madden died of complications resulting from pneumonia April 9 in Camarillo, Calif. He was 82.
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