Showing posts with label actresses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actresses. Show all posts
Sunday, May 7, 2023

the best film noir femmes fatales

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    I hate these kinds of lists, much of the time anyway. But since I’m on a bit of a list binge these days, insofar as compiling them, I th...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

brief candles: Jean Seberg (1938-1979)

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   From the Journals of Jean Seberg [videorecording (DVD)]; directed by Mark Rappaport. New York, NY: Kino Classics, 2022. Originally relea...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

enigmatic rebel: Ann Dvorak

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    Rice, Christina. Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 2013.      From 1930 to 1934 a gr...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

brief candles: Lola Montez (1821-1861)

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     Lola Montès [videorecording (DVD)]. Gamma-Film prèsente un film de Max Ophuls; scenario de Max Ophuls; adaptation de Annette Wademant ...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

the forgotten superstar: Alla Nazimova

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Readers of this blog may notice a preference for the 1940s RKO horror films produced by Val Lewton, who happened to be the nephew of theater...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Rosalind!

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Thirlwell, Angela. Rosalind: Shakespeare's Immortal Heroine. Pegasus Books, 2017. Summary: Rosalind: Shakespeare's Immort...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991)

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I just had the happy fortune to catch White Hot on the Escape TV channel and enjoyed it very much. White Hot is of course a mad...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Las reinas de las rumberas

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Las reinas del trópico: María Antonieta Pons, Meche Barba, Amalia Aguilar, Ninón Sevilla, Rosa Carmina, by Fernando Muñoz Castillo....
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