Preview of March 2013 TCM Star of the Month Greer Garson containing recommendations and an extended look at Random Harvest. Plus Garson lists and more.
March 2013 TCM Preview – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide
March 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Turner Classic Movies preview for March 2013. A look at the TCM March 2013 daytime schedule with recommendations made for every day March 4-31. Greer Garson Star of the Month coverage to follow.
In Brief: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Does Impressions in Our Modern Maidens (1929)
February 28, 2013 By 1 Comment
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. makes Our Modern Maidens (1929) more memorable than it would have been otherwise through a series of impersonations of John Barrymore, John Gilbert and his own father, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Odds and Ends – New 1931 BAT Gallery; The $50 Million Fountain Pen
February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Introducing a new Gallery on the site featuring 1931 BAT Cinema Artistes tobacco cards plus a 1929 Academy Awards story focusing on a stolen fountain pen.
Joan Blondell, as Published in The Dark Pages Nightmare Alley Special
February 26, 2013 By 2 Comments
A look at Joan Blondell’s career up until the time of Nightmare Alley with a special focus on her Zeena the Seeress from that film noir classic starring Tyrone Power.
Fannie Ward – Biography of the Eternal Flapper and Star of The Cheat
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A biography of The Eternal Flapper, Fannie Ward, who came to the stage in 1890. Later starred in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa. In between she married a South African diamond magnate.
Odds and Ends – Eureka: Lipton’s Stamps! Plus Bancroft, Ward and The Barker
February 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Images of 20 different 1935 Lipton’s Warner Brothers Star Stamps have been donated to the site. Plus current odds and ends including a pair of George Bancroft movies, frustrating Fannie Ward research and a couple of ads for The Barker (1928).
Ann Sheridan – Search for Beauty Contest Winner Before the Oomph
February 20, 2013 By 9 Comments
Ann Sheridan’s beginnings in Hollywood. A look at the International Search for Beauty contest that Clara Lou Sheridan rode to a Paramount contract.
The Racket (1928) Starring Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim and Marie Prevost
February 19, 2013 By 2 Comments
Howard Hughes bought Bartlett Cormack’s play The Racket, which had made Edward G. Robinson a star on Broadway. Hughes made it into a film twice. This article focuses on the first film version, a 1928 silent movie, starring Thomas Meighan with Louis Wolheim as the gangster.
Sidebar: Farnesbarnes, or Is That Farnsbarns? – Origins Undetermined
February 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Humorous references to Farnesbarnes, or Farnsbarns, in two early 1930s movies sent me in search of the name’s origins. Unfortunately the earliest I could find dates to BBC’s Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh in 1944, over a decade after the RKO film utterances.
