The Best Hitchcock Movies (That Hitchcock Never Made) Blogathon, sponsored by ClassicBecky’s Brain Food and Tales of the Easily Distracted is going on right now! Visit Tales of the Easily Distracted for a list of this year’s culprits I mean participants. Please check out the entries, and keep checking in …
Our third repost of recaps of the 1939 serial The Phantom Creeps, previously published on the old She Blogged By Night and moved over here to get us all ready for the tremendous finale that awaits. This one is going up a little earlier than planned so I can move …
For the next few days, we are revisiting the episodes of The Phantom Creeps that were previously posted on the old She Blogged By Night, before we go thrilling to the final solution I mean conclusion. Sorry, I think Plucky Girl Reporter’s sleepy-eyed antisocialism is starting to wear off on …
The Phantom Creeps Chapter 1: The Menacing Power Dastardly Dr. Zorka (Bela Lugosi in a super realistic beard) and his escaped dastardly convict sidekick Monk have created many dastardly things. Mrs. Zorka worries about her be-bearded husband and enlists the help of Zorka’s former partner, Dr. Mallory, in an effort …
The following are some films on Sundance, Fox Movie Channel, and TCM that you might want to check out this month. All times Eastern. Remember, these films may be edited, time compressed, in the wrong aspect ratio, canceled, or eaten by bears. You know how it is. *** SUNDANCE …
This is my entry for the Queer Film Blogathon, hosted by Garbo Laughs. Please check out Caroline’s entries as well as all the other fine participants! *** Hollywood loves to engage in bigotry through the guise of humor, usually qualified as “edgy” or “irreverent.” When bigotry is played as humor, …
The film world has recently lost two terrific character actors. Susan Tyrrell, who appeared in Fat City (1972), The Killer Inside Me (1976), and Cry-Baby (1990), died of unknown causes on June 19. Photo courtesy Follies of God by James Grissom, which has a wonderful quote about Tyrrell by Tennessee …
I have dithered about posting any of this publicly for a very long time, and because of the way discussions about these issues tend to go, I have disabled comments. Further, because I will be mentioning names and blogs for clarity’s sake, I do not want anyone to go off …
For anyone interested in using these posts for research, please read the notes at the bottom of this post. Thank you. *** Don’t watch Jean Renoir’s Nana (1926) if you’re looking to see Marie Prevost, ’cause she ain’t in it. Marie is supposed to have played Gaga, a character who, …
Edit 07/06/2013: For anyone interested in doing their own project or research on Marie Prevost, please read the note at the bottom. Thank you. This post originally appeared at https://www.shebloggedbynight.com/2011/03/marie-prevost-project-4-1918-and-1919.html and a copy can still be found at the Internet Archive here. *** Here we are, languishing in another stretch …
