Monitor vs. Merrimack Civil War Film: Hearts in Bondage DVD (1936). Directed by Lew Ayres. Starring James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Irving Pichel, J. M. Kerrigan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ben Alexander, Oscar Apfel, Clay Clement, Edward Gargan, and Russell Hicks.
By Dan Callahan [ A Time to Love and a Time to Die screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 9th, 2009 . It is available on foreign region DVD from Masters of Cinema . ] Against a black screen, a voice that seems to be imitating Orson Welles tells us about the great success of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front , and claims that the movie adaptation...
HOLIDAY has a lot in common with the better known THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, which was released two years later in 1940. Both films star Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, are based on plays by Philip Barry, and poke droll fun at the foibles of society’s upper crust. In HOLIDAY, Grant plays an up-and-coming young stockbroker who meets and falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy industrialist...
And here, the final three of the Siren's Books from a Cinephile's Past. The Siren has written before of her stint babysitting a toddler by the name of P.D. His parents were movie buffs and in addition to Mary Astor's novel A Place Called Saturday , on their shelves was a treasure trove called The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years , by English critic David Shipman. In later years the Siren came to...
"[Michael] Jackson's body is still missing his brain, which coroners are temporarily keeping for testing." -- from a 7.10 N.Y. Post story about the temporary parking of Jackson's coffin in Berry Gordy's Forest Lawn crypt. Jackson's brain, Donovan's Brain with Lew Ayres, The Man With Two Brains, the brain of Dr. Hans Delbar in Young Frankenstein. I feel an idea coming on. A struggling Broadway...
I was hoping this would happen. Following up on yesterday’s sad news that actor Karl Malden died at age 97, the San Francisco Chronicle decided to look back at the role in which most Americans likely remember seeing Malden--that of “dedicated and compassionate” Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone in The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1977)--and how Streets portrayed the captivating city...
The words written on the blackboard of the high-school history class left me chilled: “ All Quiet on the Western Front Idealism vs. disillusionment” With visions of Lew Ayres and his damned butterfly dancing in my head, I briefly contemplated a career in the carwash industry. I wondered who had resurrected this pious claptrap when the answer walked in the door. She wore a generously cut...
I Tivo'd a bunch of Dr. Kildare movies recently, the ones with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. Happily, they hold up surprising well to our oh-so-sophisticated modern standards, needing only a dash of tolerance for outdated morals and social expectations. Ayres' eyes nearly always twinkled and he conveyed awareness of the people around him and what they were saying. Barrymore and he were both acting,...
I was not aware of this film until today. It's from 1947, written and directed by Frank Tashlin for the Lutheran Church. Some of the crew, such as Wah Chang and Gene Warren, will be familiar to fans of stop motion animation of the time. The film is narrated by actor Lew Ayres. There is relatively little animation in this film. It is more a series of illustrations to accompany the narration. I don't...
I have seen much to criticize in mankind, but I believe there's even more to admire Questor (Robert Foxworth) in The Questor Tapes , by Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon May I introduce you to Lt....
All Quiet On The Western Front Year: 1930 Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Slim Summerville Director: Lewis Milestone Studio: Universal Pictures Adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of...
A woman suspected of murdering her boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi, a psychiatrist is called in to assist in solving the case. CAST: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell DIR: Robert Siodmak (
This Day in History 1732: Poor Richard's Almanack is published for the first time by Benjamin Franklin. 1832: John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president to resign. 1846: Iowa is admitted to the Union as the 29th state. 1945:...
Your birthday today: You are energetic, shrewd and diplomatic, courteous and obliging, make friends easily and are generally well liked. You are sincere and frank, and do not stoop to gain a point. you are gentle and patient in your home and endeavor to make it happy and pleasant. The book lists nobody to share today with you, so be obliging and celebrate with these other notables: The state of Iowa*...
Laraine Day - who died Saturday in Ivins, Utah, at the age of 87 - was known for who was with her: She was married to baseball manager Leo Durocher in real life, and engaged to Dr. Kildare on the big screen. The actress, born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, played nurse Mary Lamont in seven "Dr. Kildare" films, opposite Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore, between 1939 and 1941. In the last...
She gained fame as '1st lady of baseball' while married to Leo Durocher Laraine Day, a ladylike leading lady who appeared in almost two dozen MGM films from 1939 to 1945, notably as nurse Mary Lamont in the series of Dr. Kildare movies, died Saturday in Ivins, Utah. She was 87.
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