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The Era -- Day By Day
I'd think the bird would be more annoying than the dripping faucet.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,139
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Daughters Courageous from 1939 with Rosemary, Lola and Priscilla Lane, plus Gale Page, John Garfield, Fay Bainter, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, May Robson, Frank McHugh, Jeffrey Lynn and Dick Foran. Warner Bros. wanted to make a sequel to the successful movie Four Daughters, but since it had...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,540
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Millie from 1931 with Helen Twelvetrees, John Halliday, Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman "Men are all tramps" You just never quite know what you are in for with a precode. Made in 1931, Millie's production quality is clunky, its editing choppy and its directing uneven, but for real life...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,539
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
High Noon from 1952 with Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges and Otto Kruger High Noon was written as an allegory denouncing the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigation of communist activities in Hollywood in the late '40s/'50s, but it's...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,538
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Valley Stream reader: "I don't understand this mermaid story at all."- Fading Fast
- Post #10,132
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Alice has a special talent for knowing how to talk to Sally.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,129
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Makioka Sisters from 1983, a Japanese movie To fully appreciate The Makioka Sisters, the movie, you have to first read The Makioka Sisters, the novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. A classic of 20th-century Japanese literature, Tanizaki's opus follows the travails of the upper-middle-class...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,533
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Thank you for the kind words. I'm a sucker for a good golden-era train book, too. I was really impressed with this one.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,202
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
It would make sense, but it's hard to confirm as that detailed doesn't seem to have been painted on.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,122
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I thought you guys would enjoy another tidbit from the supporting material in the Clover Press edition of "Terry and the Pirates." The caption for the picture below reads: A B-24 Liberator decorated with the Dragon Lady (I zoomed in on the DL in the second pic below, there is only one pic...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,120
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, originally published in 1936 The Wheel Spins is most famous today for having been turned into the highly regarded 1938 Alfred Hitchcock movie The Lady Vanishes (comments on the movie here: #30,965 ). While the movie deserves all the praise it...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,200
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton. Well, they're no Gable & Lombard." But Grant and Hutton did have, possibly, the greatest married-coupled nickname of all time in "Cash and Carry."- Fading Fast
- Post #10,113
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
99 River Street from 1953 with John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Peggie Castle, Brad Dexter and Frank Faylen Most movies land somewhere on a continuum that runs from near reality to full-on fantasy depending on the vision of the writers and director. 99 River Street is film noir stylized for effect...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,532
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Um, I forgot my line." "ARF. The line is ARF." "Oh, sorry." LOL ************************************************************************* "Although, I must say, a bathrobe, slippers, and a pom-pom beanie aren't a look you often see on Main Street either." Shadow is one of the oddest...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,109
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Psycho from 1960 with Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam and John McIntire Psycho is still a scary movie. Despite all the imitations and expansions on its themes and style that have been done since its release, and despite being sixty-plus years old, Psycho is...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,531
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I can't yet forgive LaGruardia for getting that hotel manager fired. That seemed petty, spiteful and unnecessary. It cost a man and his family their livelihood.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,100
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
If I Should Die Before I Wake from 1952, an Argentinian movie If I Should Die Before I Wake is the third Cornell Woolrich short story that director Carlos Hugo Christensen turned into a movie. It was originally the last installment in the movie Never Open That Door, but theaters wanted shorter...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,528
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Ain' he dead?" Alice is the best. **************************************************************** "Barry Ward sets out with Buff Beverly 'to shoot underground pictures at the coal mines'." That is one awkward euphemism for...what? Oh, they really are going to shoot underground pictures at...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,093
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Costello, in constant dollars, quite possibly took the most-expensive cab ride ever taken, anywhere, anyplace, anytime.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,088
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Never Open That Door from 1952, an Argentinian film. Director Carlos Hugo Christensen made a movie based on three Cornell Woolrich short stories, but owing to the demands at the time of Argentinian theaters, he broke his effort into two movies: the first containing two stories and the second...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,523
- Forum: The Moving Picture
