Month: January 2020

Here’s one from the 40s. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

It stands the test of time, as a great travelog and fine film. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Hollywood wanted both! And with Joan Blondell they got both. She was one of the biggest stars of the 1930s. She could sing and dance, and lit up the screen in many Warners musicals. She was the personification of the wisecracking working woman who had been around the block a few times, a perfect best […]

How much did you know about Katy Jurado, the product of Mexico’s golden age of movies? When she made it in Hollywood, Jurado was not averse to being typecast. She welcomed playing passionate Mexican women providing she felt the characterizations were genuine. Because of her looks — she had expressive eyes and a full lips — […]

She became a film star in her native Mexico, then crossed the border to great success in Hollywood. She was the first actress of Mexican heritage to be nominated for an Academy award. Her exotic looks and fiery talent propelled Katy Jurado to stardom in the early 1950s. Born in 1924 to an affluent family […]

For the next four Fridays, until the actual day, we going to present some of Hollywood’s favorite valentines. Here’s one from the 1930s Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

She was unique. No other comedienne has ever come close to registering with the public like Patsy Kelly. She was also outspoken, proclaiming herself gay at a time when closet exits in Hollywood were rare to say the least. She was all over Hollywood in the Thirties. With onscreen partner, Thelma Todd, she made some […]

His career was relatively short — nearly 70 credits over two decades —  but he had an impact. That’s him with Vera Miles. The thing about Jeffrey Hunter, born Henry McKinnies Jr. in 1926, was that he was damn goodlooking. That generated a range of screen roles, of course, but never fully framed Hunter as […]

How much did you know about the long career Lauren Bacall enjoyed without her first husband, Humphrey Bogart? (He was 25 years older than she.) Here she is above with Betty Grable (in the center) and you-know-who on the left in 1953’s comedy, How To Marry A Millionaire. Bogie was still alive then (he died […]

Yes, her career was launched with her films with Humphrey Bogart, and she attained instant stardom at 19. But Lauren Bacall had quite a career after Bogie’s death. What do you know about her later films? And, what do you know about her later loves and her later husband? Keep in mind that the legendary […]