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New Year’s Nitrate: My Favorite Old Movies I Saw in 2016
I'd like to start a New Year's tradition on this blog of listing off the year's highlights of my old movie-watching. I've been meaning to do this for years, but my problem is that each movie I see, I...
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Movie Review: Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)directed by Charles Vidor, starring Danny Kaye(Note: This is my entry in the Words, Words, Words! Blogathon, Hosted by the Classic Movie Blog Association.)Hans Christian...
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Farewell, Christopher Lee
I hate being idle. As dear Boris used to say, when I die, I want to die with my boots on.Christopher Lee (1922-2015)There's a certain comfort in knowing that you don't have to try to be the coolest...
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Movie Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre(Note: This is my submission in the Fabulous Films of the 30s Blogathon, Hosted by the Classic...
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Farewell, Leonard Nimoy
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
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Farewell, Louis Jourdan
I would rather be called a character actor than a star. Louis Jourdan (1921-2015)
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Happy New Year from The Girl with the White Parasol
Happy New Year, everyone!It's been a quiet year for the blog but a busy and ultimately quite happy year for me. I hope to see all of you in 2015 and I look forward to the new adventures in store. Let...
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Farewell, Luise Rainer
When you lose your curiosity, you’re dead. There is so much in the world that one should know, or it would be marvelous to know. And I know nothing. Nothing! My God, one’s life-span is so very...
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Farewell, Mike Nichols
If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of...
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, everyone!It seems only fitting that on the night that dead things walk again, I come back and breathe a tiny bit of life back into this blog. You know, dear readers, the fact that I...
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Movie Review: Test Pilot
Test Pilot (1938)directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy(Note: This is my entry in the Build-Your-Own Blogathon, hosted by the Classic Film and TV Cafe.) Jim Lane...
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Farewell, Lauren Bacall
She's a real Joe. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else.Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
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Movie Review: The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades (1949)directed by Thorold Dickinson, starring Anton Walbrook, Yvonne Mitchell, Edith Evans(Note: This is my entry in The British Invaders Blogathon, hosted by A Shroud of Thoughts.)...
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Farewell, James Garner
I want you to remember that the last time you saw me, I was unregenerately eating a Hershey bar.James Garner (1928-2014)
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Movie Review: Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda, Alice Brady(Note: This is my entry in the John Ford Blogathon, hosted by Krell Laboratories.)Young Mr. Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda)...
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Unsolved Mysteries of the Casting Department: (Part One) You Can't Win 'Em All
I've talked before on this blog about miscasting. It's one of my eternal fascinations. Not just the plainly ludicrous decisions like casting Susan Hayward as a Tartar princess or Denise Richards as a...
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Farewell, Ruby Dee
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.Ruby Dee (1922-2014)
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