Aug 18, 2008
Monday Serenade: Get Happy
Filmed months after the completion of the rest of the film, this closing number from Summer Stock (1950) shows a slender, happy and buoyant Judy Garland. The number was a far cry from the rest of the production, where she had been bloated, ill and prone to mood swings--reportedly due to her increased dependency on drugs. It was her last film for MGM, the studio where she had grown up.
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Aug 17, 2008
Classic Links

Giving Kim Novak her due-- New York Times
Giving Doris Day her due-- Detroit Free Press
Celebrating Mae West’s Birthday-- Mae West Blog
Hitchcock makes a cameo in drag?-- Telegraph
A classic movie starter kit-- TCM/ Movie Morlocks
Advertising: For 60 Years, the Ad Game Has Been Fodder for Scripts-- New York Times
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Aug 15, 2008
Classic Links

Audrey Hepburn morphed with Marilyn Monroe. Weird, but sort of pretty!-- Morph Thing
Universal to release all three versions of Orson Welles’ A Touch of Evil-- Zoom in Online
Tilda Swinton’s classic film festival-- Inverness Courier
Olympic Movies You’ve Never Seen-- Cinematical
Aug 13, 2008
Quote of the Day

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
-Joan Crawford
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Labels:
Joan Crawford,
Quotes
Classic Links

Bette Davis: underrated horror queen?-- AMC
Cary Grant home on track to be named historic site-- Mydesert.com
Four Alfred Hitchcock Secrets-- Mental Floss
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Aug 11, 2008
Classic Links

Mae West biography review-- Film in Focus
New Joan Blondell Biography-- Twenty Four Frames
The oldest restaurant in Hollywood-- Iamnotastalker’s Weblog
Celebrity Ads for Lustre Cream-- Found in Mom’s Basement
A Toddler’s Review of the Classics-- Cinema OCD
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Aug 10, 2008
Aug 9, 2008
Classic Links

Night of the Hunter outtakes to screen at UCLA Film & Television Archive festival-- LA Times
Phillip French’s Screen Legends: Joan Crawford-- The Observer
Mere glimpses of Marilyn in exhibit-- Seattle Times
Taylor hopeful of leaving hospital soon-- Times Now
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Aug 8, 2008
Classic Links

Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On-- NPR Online
Busby Berkeley: Sex and the Single Girl-- Los Angeles Times
Is the Golden Age of DVD Over?-- Onion AV Club
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Busby Berkeley: Sex and the Single Girl-- Los Angeles Times
Is the Golden Age of DVD Over?-- Onion AV Club
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Aug 6, 2008
Classic Links

Roger Ebert writes about the discovery of more Metropolis footage--Sun Times
Classe Tous Risques on DVD--Onion AV Club
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Aug 5, 2008
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