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Homes of the Stars - Part 2
1 day ago
by Amanda
Homes of the Stars - Part 2 Shirley Temple Norma Talmadge Norma Shearer Mary Pickford Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
Time Machine to the Twenties - flapperdays.blogspot.com
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Bullets or Ballots (1936) **
// movies
1 day ago
by Matthew Coniam
Director: William Keighley Screenplay: Seton I. Miller Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Joe King, Frank McHugh, George E. Stone, Louise Beavers This slick, pacy, complicated Warners programmer begins with perhaps the studio’s most impudent comment ever on the ...
Movietone Cameos - movietonecameos.blogspot.com
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Session!
// music
1 day ago
by superheidi
A lazy blogger I am, as much as a busy organiser of swingrelated events in this ol' town. One them being a smaller midweek event with the focus on music. The swing era and its outskirts holds so much great music that it's a pity it isn't heard that much anymore in public. We have a great time playin ...
the swing of things - superheidiz.blogspot.com
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Magazine Memories
2 days ago
by ThreeOldKeys
Home Arts Needlecraft Magazine, February 1938 cover art by Mary C Highsmith There are eight issues of this old magazine stashed away in my house ... their date range is 1926-1939. For Rednesday, I am sharing a few pages and a few observations about the publication. Home Arts Needlecraft pages 18-19, ...
ThreeOldKeys - threeoldkeys.blogspot.com
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RIP, John Christopher
2 days ago
by Carol Borden
Novelist Samuel Youd, who wrote as John Christopher, has died. Gutter readers might remember him best for his science fiction series, The Tripods, which was adapted for television by the BBC and Australia’s Seven Networks in the 1980s. The Guardian has an overview of his life and career.
The Cultural Gutter - theculturalgutter.com
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The Light That Failed (William A Wellman, 1939)
// movies
2 days ago
by Judy
Made the same year as Wellman’s great Beau Geste, this lesser-known drama, sadly not on DVD as yet, is another wildly noble and compelling period melodrama adapted from a novel by an imperialist author, Kipling. There was clearly a demand for such films in 1939, in the early days of the Second World ...
Movie classics - movieclassics.wordpress.com
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The Artist
// movies
2 days ago
by The Decophile
Yesterday I saw a film most of you have probably heard of. The Artist is a black-and-white silent film, though made just last year. It's already won 52 awards, and has been nominated for 10 Oscars. What is all the hype about, I wondered? I've been hearing about the movie for months and, predictably ...
The Decophile - the-decophile.blogspot.com
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