Audrey Hepburn
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Goddess In White
Audrey Hepburn
Thursday, February 3, 2011
What A Gal-4
Anne Francis 1930-2011
Anne Francis was such a breath of fresh air to watch on screen. She had this complex that made her seem even sweeter than Shirley Temple. She may not have had the extensive number of dramatic roles that other actresses had but she was an actress that represented the peppy, good-natured girl of the 1950's. At the same time she was very entrancing and had eyes that seemed to have a magnetic force. I was watching Blackboard Jungle (1955) today and thought I would research her a little and found that she died just last month. I had no clue that she had passed. When I think of her I think of drive-in movies, dungaree jeans, campy sci-fi movies, pencil skirts, and 50's rock and roll. It's easy to think she was a cookie cutter blonde by seeing her pictures but she had warmth and didn't seem to fake her personality. She seemed to make the whole duration of Forbidden Planet (1956) worth while.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
That Time of Year Again
Rankin Bass movies are the best Christmas movies! It also can't be the holidays without watching A Christmas Story (1983) once, twice, or five hundred times.
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
Burl Ives, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Long Hair Lovelies-3
Jane Fonda
Friday, November 26, 2010
Underrated and It's a Shame
I just finished reading the autobiography of Tony Curtis called American Prince: My Autobiography. I liked it a lot and I must say that I am definitely guilty of not appreciating his talent for what it was. I always thought he was very good in The Defiant Ones (1958) with Sidney Poitier. That was a groundbreaking movie and the movie itself didn't get the honors and raving reviews it deserved when it came out. But, I guess I let his reputation as a womanizer and an absent father get in the way of seeing his talents as an actor. That's not to say he wasn't a womanizer because he ABSOLUTELY was. You just have to read his book to see how many actresses, models, and regular women he bagged. I almost couldn't keep up with it! He seemed to have fallen in love or fallen in lust with almost every leading lady he ever had! But, last week The Boston Strangler (1968) came on TV and I thought Tony was amazing in it. He plays the strangler in the movie and he was so wonderful. He played the part so well, you thought he might actually be mentally disturbed. He should have been nominated for an Oscar for that one but I think Hollywood didn't want to see him succeed because of his philandering and messy divorce with Janet Leigh. He also had to deal with antisemitism in Hollywood.
Anyway the book really helped me understand a lot about why he was the way he was. He really had a hard knock life growing up in a poor Jewish family in the Bronx. He may have cheated on pretty much all of his wives and wasn't the best father but he should still be praised as the stellar actor that he was.
Friday, November 5, 2010
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