Jerome Kern Life Story Film: Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) Featuring Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Van Heflin, June Allyson, and Cyd Charisse
Dennis Perrin (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
(From A Most Peculiar Weekend , 1966, with Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave) Sit On It (1948) Danny Kaye does, on coffins, cattle, traffic cones, heaping plates of pasta, moose antlers, and June Allyson, for the better part of 88 minutes. With Ozzie Nelson and Hattie McDaniel. Paddles In Lieu Of Pockets (1970) Starving geese invade a nudist colony, ruining the volleyball tournament. With Dean...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Born on this day in 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly, iconic American star and Princess of Monaco, remains the ne plus ultra of the beautiful woman, exuding an effortless femininity, grace, charm, and self-confidence. With her regal mien, she became a...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I'm going to do them alphabetically. Tonight I'm featuring June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006): In 1925, when she was eight, a dead tree branch fell on her while she was bicycling. Several bones were broken, and doctors said she would never walk again. She underwent months of swimming exercises, however, and ultimately regained her health. After graduating from a wheelchair to crutches...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The headline on the invitation for next Sunday's Valley Center historic home tour reads “The June Allyson-Dick Powell Estate.” If you're into Hollywood and these 1940s icons, you can see why Allyson and Powell bought this corner of laid-back Valley Center and built an Old California-style retreat.
The Business Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
By David Warren The following paragraphs contain some nice movie reviews. If you want to download these movies do some searches to find what is out there. film download searches will include "Online Movies Rental", "DVD Rental", and "Movie Download Sites Reviews". Pauline & Paulette: Charming, emotional film about 2 siblings, the psychologically retarded Pauline (Van...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Btms^ for Wednesday, October 7, Over the Hump Day! Drink Forecast for Today (DF 4 2day): Graham Beck Sauvingon Blanc 2 toast 2 fellow South African, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, born 2day in 1931. Complimentary Sip & Samples Wines this week @ all the Barns, weekdays from 5 to 7 pm, Saturday from 3 to 6 pm: - Cortenova [...]
The Internet Business Blog (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
By Claudine Simpson With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. You can get virtually any movie you want with a good movie download site. Here are some examples. Three Kings: The Gulf War is winding down, and a cease-fire has been agreed to. Four soldiers...
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
This Instapundit link to a British pop singer who is now 92 and yet her stuff, including her World War II hits, has topped the music album charts there, reminds me of a comment I saw posted at iTunes the...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds from movie download sites is becoming very common. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site.
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...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
By David Lambert - 1978. ABC prime time. Following Eight is Enough (sadly not on DVD yet due to legal issues holding it up) and Charlie's Angels (whose fourth season just arrived on DVD), the 'alphabet... (more)
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Go away. Aren't you gone yet? Why not? What is it about my little mountainside that drew you here and what can I do to erase that drawing? You want a reading, and then you'll go? I think I can arrange for that to happen... right now, in fact. Here you are: You are interested in art and music, but lack talent, especially at the former. You are hyper, as well as moderately intelligent -- enough to get...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
WOMAN'S WORLD features a stellar cast in an entertaining tale of mid-'50s New York business life. Clifton Webb stars as Ernest Gifford, the head of a major car company, who is looking for a new righthand man. Gifford summons three of his most successful executives and their wives to New York to interview them -- including the wives -- for the position. Cornel Wilde and June Allyson play the cute, so-in-love...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
A little while back Casey of Noir Girl kindly tagged me for a "180" post which originated at Silents and Talkies . The theme is to write about an actor you "start out despising...but ended up loving"...in other words, an actor on which your opinion has done a "180." Click the title of this post for Casey's thoughts on Marilyn Monroe. Kate wrote about Glenn Ford at Silents...
No Sheeples Here! (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
This week’s shameless obedience to Rule 5 is dedicated to Jeff Chandler. Chandler was a tough, virile and ruggedly handsome leading man with prematurely steel grey, wavy hair and a muscular physique and I do mean muscular. Ooh la la. He starred in action films in the late 1940s and 50s, often as American Indians, gangsters and cavalrymen. Chandler served in the U. S. Army in the Aleutian Islands....
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