Screen-Grab via YouTube Dark, handsome, witty, talented Omar Sharif and Barbra Streisand enjoyed a scandalous affair during the filming of Funny Girl which made headlines news around the globe. The film's production was underway at the same time as the … [Read more...]
Remembering Early Film Superstar, Mary Pickford on Her 131st Birthday
1910, Studio Shot, Wikimedia Commons Mary Pickford: “Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.” The First Female Movie Mogul. Fashion Icon. The biggest star in showbiz. In 1919, Pickford, with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Everybody Has a Heart. Except Some People.” – Bette Davis as Margo Channing
(L to R) Gary Merrill, Gregory Ratoff, and Bette Davis in All About Eve, 20th Century Fox via YouTube All About Eve (1950), is a devastating debunking of theatrical tropes and types. This flawlessly acted film is driven by Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty, cynical … [Read more...]
Is “The Man Who Knew Too Much” Doris Day’s Best Film?
Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956, ccreenshot via Wikimedia Commons Can you be an icon and remain truly underrated? Doris Day (1922-2019) and her effortless talent seem especially ephemeral now that she is gone. Her image was so distorted as to be anachronistic, … [Read more...]
That Time Gloria Swanson Discovered a UFO in the Hollywood Hills!
The Cold War climate in the USA brought many fears in its citizens. The threat of nuclear destruction by Russia dominated the minds of Americans. A fascination with space and science fiction was embraced by people during the 1950s. Hollywood icon Gloria Swanson had an immense … [Read more...]
Remembering Gay Icon, Joan Crawford on Her Birthday
1932 Publicity Photo, public domain Joan Crawford (190? - 1977): "I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love." She was known for playing determined working-girls in most of her films, portraying women who had a rough start in life, but eventually … [Read more...]
Queer Quote: “I Should Have Known You’d Know Where to Find the Booze and The Boys!” – Joan Crawford (The Character, Not the Woman)
"I learned it from you, Mom."Christina Crawford, the character, not the person It has been 42 years since Frank Perry's cult classic Mommie Dearest was released and rocked Hollywood and audiences alike. The film is an adaptation of Christina Crawford's 1978 memoir about her … [Read more...]
#FlashBack: 1929, The First Academy Awards
Photograph via Wikimedia Commons The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in Hollywood on May 16, 1929. Only 270 guest were invited and no there was no television broadcast, the only time in Academy Awards history that the ceremony wasn't broadcast in some way; even a year … [Read more...]
#OscarFlashBack: WoW Writer, Stephen Rutledge, Goes To The Academy Awards
On a spring day in 1974, I was visiting at a friend’s house in Beverly Hills whose parents were famous musicians. I was a big fan of their work and I was acting cool and collected, holding back from gushing, when their neighbors dropped by to talk about what to wear to the … [Read more...]
Oscars Weekend: Celebrating Hollywood’s Nearly Forgotten Filmmaker, Gregory La Cava
He was nominated twice for a Best Director Academy Award, yet when considering the great directors of Hollywood's Golden Era, you think of William Wellman, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, John Ford, or George Cukor, yet of all the filmmakers from that age, few deserve remembering more … [Read more...]
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