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Gene Kelly's Brief Sojourn, "Let's Make Love" (1960)
The Classic Movie Blog Association is sponsoring the Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon from August 20 - 25 and this is my contribution to the event. Please click here for links to the other participating...
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Remembering Tyrone Power
“There he was, dark-looking with black hair and eyebrows, and no man had a right to be that handsome.” So aviator Bob Buck remembered first meeting Tyrone Power. Buck, enlisted by his boss Howard...
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Five More Film Classics Coming to a Theater Near You
Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events are about to begin a film series in celebration of Universal's 100th anniversary with special movie theater presentations of four newly restored Universal...
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Celebrating Choreographer Jack Cole
Turner Classic Movies honors jazz-dance pioneer Jack Cole on Monday night, September 10, with a five-movie tribute to his film work. The choreographer, credited with playing a key role in defining the...
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Ticket Giveaway: "The Birds" is Coming!
The much-anticipated Turner Classic Movies/NCM Fathom Events presentation of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds screens in theaters nationwide next Wednesday night, September 19, and I'm happy to announce a...
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Email From an Oscar Winner's Son...
Every now and then a delightful surprise arrives in the ladyevesidwich@gmail.com emailbox.A few months ago I was contacted by British scholar Dr. Susan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the...
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328 Credits and Counting...Happy Birthday, Mickey Rooney!
Mickey Rooney, who celebrates his 92nd birthday on September 23, has spent 90+ of those years in show business. Born into a family of vaudevillians, he came closer to actually being "born in a trunk"...
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Ticket Giveaway this Sunday for "Lawrence of Arabia 50th Anniversary Event"...
The 35th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the films of 1962, took place at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium on April 8th, 1963. Frank Sinatra, who nearly missed the event because he forgot his parking...
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Many Thanks
It was nearly a year ago that I began to think about hosting a blog event focused on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. I had just read an English translation of the French noir novel the film was adapted...
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One of Ours...on Turner Classic Movies
Moira Neylon, aka/moirafinnie, blogger on TCM's Movie Morlocks site and member of the Classic Movie Blog Association, will be a guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies next month. Moira and three...
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A Film to Watch for...on TCM Next Week
Actress Jeanne Eagels,one of the great legends of early 20th century American theater, became the toast of the New York stage by the time she was 30. She most famously originated the role of Sadie...
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Prize Pack Giveaway this Weekend for Upcoming "To Kill a Mockingbird"...
The Lady Eve's Reel Life is pleased to take part in a "prize pack" giveaway sponsored by Fathom Events and Harper Perennial books in celebration of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, the...
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You've Gotta Have Heart...Damn, Giants!
San Francisco's Coit Tower bathed in Giants orange on Sunday night (photo by Luanne Dietz, SF Chronicle)One of the best-known tunes from Damn Yankees (the 1955 Broadway hit and 1958 movie) is the...
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Halloween Treats
Joan Carroll and Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. LouisThe origins of Halloween go back to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sowˊ-in). Samhain began on the eve of October 31...
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A Noir Year Begins...
January 2013 brings, at last, the much-anticipated Noir City XI, San Francisco's 11th annual film noir festival. Presented by the Film Noir Foundation at the city’s landmark movie palace, the Castro...
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SWORD PLAY AND NOIR ON A MONDAY NIGHT
I wasn’t sure, exactly, what the word meant and was curious, so I went to the Internet in search of an answer. There I found the verb swashbuckle defined as “to engage in daring and romantic adventures...
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31 Days of Oscar: The Rains Came (1939)
There is no mistaking that drama on a grand scale is about to take place even before the first scene of The Rains Came (1939) begins. Alfred Newman's commanding score pounds, the title sequence rolls...
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CMBA Blogathon: Nightmare Alley (1947)
Woodcut print by Guy BudziakConey Island's first so-called "freak show" opened in 1880, but the heyday of its sideshow attractions began nearly 25 years later when Samuel W. Gumpertz opened...
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VINTAGE YEARS
The notion that 1939 was the greatest of all movie years has been around for so long that it's pretty much an accepted fact these days. A while ago, as I was roaming the blogosphere, I happened upon a...
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A Birthday Tribute to Francoise Dorleac
Francoise Dorleac, older sister of Catherine Deneuve, was born in war-ravaged Paris on the first day of spring, 71 years ago today, March 21, 1942, and lived just 25 years more.Catherine (top) and...
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