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,…
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The 1944 classic Cover Girl is reviewed by Guest blogger Angela Petteys: While working as a dancer in a nightclub, Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) hears about a contest being run by Vanity magazine to find a new face for their big…
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Classics from the archives, recent theatrical releases, vintage TV favorites and would-be blockbusters. It must another week’s worth of new DVD and Blu-ray releases! MovieFanFare presents a look at the best and brightest of these new viewing possibilitites. Check them…
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Guest blogger Katie from The Scarlet Olive writes: When it comes to hair colour, blondes and brunettes have been best “frenemies” for a very long time. Even film titles contribute to this battle between the two different hair colours: My…
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Guest blogger Kitty Johnson writes: A double brandy for me, please, bartender! Now this is classic. A prime Frank Sinatra serenading the luminous Rita Hayworth in George Stevens’ 1957 melo-musical Pal Joey. The film itself is light on plot, and even…
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Guest blogger Dave writes: This film is not what I expected… at all. From the title I expected Angels Over Broadway (1940) to be a light, fun, maybe even a heartwarming type of film (why did I have visions of a…
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Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: What a dilemma The Lady from Shanghai provokes. Orson Welles is in my directors’ pantheon, so I want to like the movie more than I do. Individual parts of it contain moments of great brilliance,…
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Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me. –Rita Hayworth Even Rita Hayworth realized she was not Gilda Mundson Farrell, the blowzy wife of casino owner George MacReady, who was once romantically involved with…
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With less than a week until Christmas, the heat is on to get all of your holiday shopping done. Fortunately, there’s plenty of new and upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases for everyone on your shopping list. Take a look! The…
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I recently fixed a gaping hole in my classic film education. Gilda, one of Rita Hayworth’s best movies, is infamous for her simulated strip-tease to “Put the Blame on Mame” and is considered one of the sexiest musical numbers put…
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