Monthly Archives: November 2009

cute couple alert

Posted on November 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

Love Me Tonight

Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in Rouben Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight. 1932.

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breathless

Posted on November 10, 2009 | Leave a comment

Breathless

À bout de souffle. Jean-Luc Godard. 1960.

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casino royale

Posted on November 9, 2009 | 4 comments

Casino Royale

This is the first of a new series on Casino Royale. The series is really just an excuse to post images from a February 1967 Playboy pictorial which featured photos taken on the set of the film (some depicting scenes that didn’t appear in the finished film) and nearly all of the film’s actresses in various stages of undress. It should be pretty groovy so stay tuned.

Oh, above we have Joanna Pettet, Casino Royale’s Mata Bond.

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haven’t seen it

Posted on November 8, 2009 | 3 comments

Fedora

This begins a new catagory dedicated to films that I would like to see but that remain elusive. Because I haven’t taken the plunge on the Spanish DVD:

Fedora Fedora

Wilder directs

William Holden and Billy Wilder making Fedora. 1978.

Fedora

Holden in Fedora

I know that I’ve read an interview with Wilder after this movie’s unsuccessful theatrical release and was he pissed. I’ll have to look for that. Maybe I’ll post it because I remember it being pretty entertaining.

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ray directs

Posted on November 7, 2009 | 2 comments

Ray on Zap

Nicholas Ray during the shooting of We Can’t Go Home Again. 1976.

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cria cuervos

Posted on November 6, 2009 | 2 comments

Cria

Ana Torrent in Cria Cuervos. Saura. 1976.

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1930s autographs

Posted on November 5, 2009 | 3 comments

Autographs

I can’t recall how I ended up on a vintage autograph collector/dealer’s site but ended up there I did. What we have here are a handful of pages from an autograph book complied during the 1920s and 30s by a Harold Shell, an autograph hound and president of the Helen Mack fan club. He ended up with a pretty nice pile of signatures. Check this site for more. There’s a Houdini on there too.

Colleen Moore, Betty Compson