Alan Arkinborn March 26, 1934Arkin is famous for being my husband’s favorite actoroh yeah and I guess other people like him too, what with him being so damned awesome and alland will someone release “Simon” on DVD already for the love of cornphoto is a promotional still from “Catch-22”tons about Alan can be found at…
Birthday: El Brendel, March 25, 1891
El Brendelborn March 25, 1891El is the patron saint of She Blogged By Nightmore about El can be found at Give Me the Good Old Days! and, of course, herepictured are El Brendel and Greta Nissen from “Women of All Nations”
Birthday: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, March 24, 1887
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckleborn March 24, 1887 publicity still for the lost 1921 film “Brewster’s Millions”more about Roscoe can be found at Call Me Fatty! A Tribute to Roscoe Arbuckle
Birthday: Joan Crawford, March 23, 1908
Joan Crawfordborn March 23, 1908 (allegedly) portrait by Ruth Harriet Louisemore Joan can be found at Legendary Joan Crawford
Attention TCM: "The Brain That Wouldn’t Die" also comes in a lemon fresh unedited version!
Today I realized TCM was going to show the 1962 cult (and MST3K) classic “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” tonight, and spent most of my day rubbing my hands together in the internationally recognized oh-boy-this-is-gonna-be-great fashion. You can imagine my glee when I realized immediately that the film had been edited. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s…
The Locked Door (1929)
“The Locked Door” is an early talkie and one of Barbara Stanwyck’s first film roles. The story was originally a stage play called “The Sign on the Door”, a melodrama by Channing Pollock that ran from 1919-1920 and which garnered very good reviews. It was spiced up for film by C. Gardner Sullivan, who added…
The Twenty Actors Meme
I decided to consider myself technically tagged after Princess Fire and Music’s post. Note that she is a better blogger than me: she didn’t cheat. This is Dean Treadway of filmicability’s meme, not the other similar memes going about, which means I have chosen my 20 favorites. Not best, not most admired, just favorite. This…
StinkyLulu’s Supporting Actress Smackdown for 1945
It’s another exciting Supporting Actress Smackdown at StinkyLulu today, and I’m happy to say I was allowed to participate with this fine group of Smackdowners. The Smackdown this month was for Academy Award year 1945, and the nominees were Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Joan Lorring, Angela Lansbury, and Anne Revere. I had already seen these…
Welcome to 2009… Here’s your accordion.
It’s a new year, and all I can hope for 2009 is that it doesn’t suck as much as 2008 did. That’s a pretty low bar for 2009 to reach, yet I’m not at all confident 2009 will reach this goal. We’ll see. Let’s get the administrative junk out of the way. The About the…
The Twenty Actresses Meme
Ibetolis at Film for the Soul tagged me for the Twenty Actresses Meme. Five days ago. So yes, I’m shamefully behind on my blogging, but I also suck in another way: I almost couldn’t come up with 20 actresses I like. Why? Because I like actors more. There, I said it. Of course I had…