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We’ve recently written about the premier — after a 48-year delay — of what is considered Orson Welles’ final movie, The Other Side of the Wind, filmed between 1970 and 1975 and mired in rights disputes and other industrial muck ever since. The picture was unveiled at the recent Telluride Film Festival, and will soon […]
There she is with our pal, film fan extraordinaire, Donald Gordon. This shot is, of course, taken from our Donald Gord Collection. Yes, that’s Irene Dunne in mufti to the right and our man Donald, looking very preppy, to the left. Below is a more formal studio shot of Irene. We’re of the opinion that […]
Question. Has anyone ever filled a movie screen with cigarette smoke more authoritatively than Joan Crawford (see above)? Well, let’s celebrate the ways audience can escape its quotidien woes by watching a darn good (and often unheralded) film. And if it happens to star a furiously puffing Crawford, so much the better. One of Joe’s favorites […]
How much did you know about Teresa Wright? There she is above with ‘Uncle Charlie’ played by costar Joseph Cotten in Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite film, Shadow of A Doubt. Cotten, portraying a serial killer in the 1943 picture, felt he should have been involved in that year’s Oscar action for his Shadow performance. As he wrote […]
She was nominated for Oscars for the first three films in which she appeared. It’s a record which still stands today. More important, Teresa Wright was one of the sexiest actresses of the Forties — quietly and with wholesome discretion, of course. Was there ever a perkier yet more forcefully feminine portrayal of a budding teenager […]
Joe is aces at extolling underappreciated character actors from Hollywood’s classic period, but was dumbfounded when Frank suggested profiling today’s subject — Timothy Carey, a product of the early 1950’s. Joe said he had never heard of him, but once he saw the face he knew him. We think it’s a reaction you may well […]
Some semi-breaking news. Orson Welles’ last film has arrived — at last. Sound the trumpets. When he died in 1985 at age 70 — more than four decades after Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons — Welles as a director/screenwriter had a number of movie projects in the hopper in various states of preparation. Notably, there was The Other Side of the […]
We were leafing through our Donald Gordon collection of photos, and found the above snap of actor John Gavin, who died recently. He was in a few very successful films and wooden though his acting was he didn’t ruin any of them. Anyone who has savored the opening scenes of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — the […]
How much did you know about Vincent Price’s early career in films? Although he seldom got the girl he starred opposite some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. Price also played early in his career a wide-range of character types: a gum chewing gangster on the London stage, royal stalwarts in historical costume dramas, […]
Yes, long before he became the star of horror films he logged quite a career as a leading man and supporting player. In our book it’s always the season for Vincent Price. (Next month happens to mark the 25th anniversary of Price’s death of lung cancer in 1993.) But how little we seem to know about […]