Noir Bets: There’re more mysteries and moody melodramas from the heyday of the film noir cycle on tap, as well. Singer Jane Russell’s return to Sin City goes bust, when stockbroker hubby Vincent Price gets into trouble with crooks and…
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In January 1953, President Truman announced that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. Later that same year, 20th Century Fox released its own double-barreled bombshell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Christmas had obviously come…
Read more →February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith‘s Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it “like writing history with lightning.” February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to…
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Guest blogger Karen Burroughs Hannsbery writes: When I think of film noir fatales, Jane Russell is not necessarily the first name that springs to mind. Known mainly for her singing and comedic talents, as well as her voluptuous figure and…
Read more →September 14, 1919: Lon Chaney portrays the first of his memorable “grotesque roles,” twisting his body to play a fake cripple healed by The Miracle Man. September 14, 1936: Producer Irving G. Thalberg, the “boy wonder” behind many of MGM’s…
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