What are the three best Joan Crawford movies? Are they Johnny Guitar (1954), Mildred Pierce (1945), and the George Cukor 1939 comedy-drama The Women,
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Can You Identify Famous Film Voices?
In today’s guest post, reader Jack Ralph asks if you can identify film stars just by the sound of their voice: Many movie and television fans can identify a great number of performers by name immediately by viewing the performers,…
Read more →Joan Crawford: What Ever Happened to Mommie Dearest?
From flapper girl to working-class heroine to martyr mom to shocker diva, the indomitable and driven Joan Crawford watched her career in Hollywood span 45 years and establish her as the quintessential “woman’s movie” star. Born Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio…
Read more →On This Day In Movie History, 10.14.12
October 20, 1945: Two years after being let go by MGM due to waning popularity, Joan Crawford wins renewed acclaim (and an eventual Oscar) as Mildred Pierce. October 15, 1915: The Supreme Court finds Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company guilty of restraint of…
Read more →All About Aldrich
It’s been a mini-retrospective on DVD and Blu-ray of late for director Robert Aldrich. A number of films are being issued from the filmmaker best known for such mucho macho movies as The Dirty Dozen, Emperor of the North, and…
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September 11, 1970: Joan Crawford makes a less than seemly screen farewell in the “B” horror vehicle Trog. September 9, 1916: Silent comedy star Harold Lloyd, at the suggestion of producer Hal Roach, first sports his trademark horn-rimmed glasses in Over the Fence….
Read more →Republic Classics in Your Future and More
Republic—We Like the Sound Of It: After being tossed around like a cinematic hot potato, Republic Pictures—or at least most of the now-defunct film studio’s library—has landed on its feet from Olive Films. They are the same folks who have…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite “Golden Age” (1930-60) Actress?
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Read more →What’s So Great About….? Or The Fault Lies Not in Our Stars
Once upon a time, when I was a very obnoxious teenager with pseudo-intellectual pretensions, I made my father throw his napkin at me at the dinner table. Dad had come home after a hard day’s work as a mechanic and…
Read more →Craptastic Cinema: Trog
Good day, I’m Julian André, and welcome to Craptastic Cinema. Trog was Joan Crawford’s last film role. Pity. The First Queen of the Movies had earned three Academy Award nominations, winning Best Actress for Mildred Pierce. But that was back…
Read more →Inside the Crawford Biography Possessed
Joan Crawford was a bitch. That may not come as a revelation to the folks who know Ms. Crawford from the image that has been perpetuated since Mommie Dearest, the book and the movie, were released in 1978 and 1981,…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 10.16.11
October 17, 1916: Swimming star-turned-actress Annette Kellerman causes a sensation when she appears in the nude in Daughter of the Gods. October 18, 1931: “The Wizard of Menlo Park” and film pioneer Thomas Alva Edison passes away at the age…
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