OTHER MEN’S WOMEN – James Cagney Blogathon
James Cagney’s third picture is an odd little number and it’s my choice for submission to the James Cagney blogathon hosted by The Movie Projector. Cagney was on the brink of superstardom when he...
View ArticleMARY ASTOR – the stuff that dreams are made of
“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes – but a movie actor waits.” Mary Astor‘s friend, John Huston and actor, Humphrey Bogart went to her house one day with a script in hand. The...
View ArticleScreen Guild Theater, THE MALTESE FALCON
Live radio performance by the original film cast reprising their film roles: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Filed under: Audio, Gallery Tagged: Humphrey Bogart, Mary...
View ArticleAcademy Award Theater presents, The Maltese Falcon
The following information is courtesy of the (corroborated) “Tonight on the Radio” YouTube page: Academy Award Theater was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays,...
View ArticleCMBA Blogathon: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
I arrived in this country with my family at the age of five and curiously that’s when my earliest memories start – memories of playing house with pencils. Before I loved the movies, I loved pencils....
View ArticleTCM Spotlights Mary Astor in March
“There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who’s Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who’s Mary Astor?” Well…she was a novelist, penned a frank...
View ArticleLISTEN, DARLING this is fluff with a “Zing!”
Moments after the opening credits are done a sixteen-year-old girl steps onto the stage at Daniel Webster Junior High School. The girl’s name is Pinkie Wingate and she impresses with a beautiful...
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