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The Pre-Code Blogathon: Trouble in Paradise (1932)

It’s hard not to get seduced into enjoying Trouble in Paradise. Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 pre-code delights on all levels. Leads Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall look their best while giving career high…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Available on DVD, Blogathons, Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Pre-Code, Pre-Code, Uncategorized
Apr, 04, 2015
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Road Trip to Cinefest 35!

Spellbound By Movies is going on a road trip this month! I’ll be flying out to Syracuse for my first and last Cinefest. I’ve always wanted to attend this film festival. Some fellow film…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Cinefest, Film Festivals
Mar, 14, 2015
2 Comments

The Silent Film Fanatic TCM Film Festival Preview!

Classic film circles are abuzz about March’s Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. This year’s theme is History According to Hollywood, and many movie buffs are guessing what film favorites fitting that theme will screen….

Beth Ann Gallagher
Film Festivals, Silent Film, TCM Film Festival
Feb, 21, 2015
4 Comments

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Spellbound by Movies HQ! The woman serenading us with carols is actress Colleen Moore. I selected her to share glad holiday tidings because 2014 was a great year for the departed…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Christmas, Colleen Moore, Holidays
Dec, 25, 2014
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Fairy Tale Blogathon: Claire (2001)

Contemporary silent film Claire frames a story of longings once impossible inside a loose adaptation of a Japanese fairy tale. The movie quietly champions the themes of acceptance, fatherhood, and families of choice. The methods used to depict this…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Blogathons, Fairy Tale, Fairy Tales, Silent Film
Nov, 11, 2014
12 Comments

More San Francisco Silent Film Festival Fun!

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has gotten a little longer for its 20th anniversary. A day has been added to the festival! The event now runs Thursday, May 28, 2015 through Monday, June…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Film Festivals, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Silent Film
Nov, 08, 2014
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CMBA Forgotten Stars Blogathon: The Time Bebe Daniels Couldn’t Get Out of a Speeding Ticket

It reads like a publicity stunt out of the movie Bombshell. Silent film sweetheart Bebe Daniels was ticketed for speeding, tried, convicted, sentenced to jail, and forced to serve time. Rather than being planned like the stunts…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Bebe Daniels, Blogathons, CMBA, Forgotten Stars
Oct, 31, 2014
25 Comments

World War One in Classic Film Blogathon: Dark Journey (1937)

Vivien Leigh viewed Dark Journey as a “personal failure.” It was her sixth film, but “her first true leading role,” and her lack of confidence during the production made her overly critical of her performance. She might not…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Blogathons, Conrad Veidt, Spy Films, Vivien Leigh, War Films, World War One in Classic Film
Sep, 07, 2014
16 Comments

That’s Not Musidora! A Case of Mistaken Identity Compounded by Tumblr

Perhaps it’s not unexpected that an actress who’s best remembered for playing a disguised thief suffers from a case of mistaken identity on the internet. In the silent film Les Vampires, Musidora plays Irma Vep, who…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Musidora, Silent Film
Sep, 01, 2014
33 Comments

World War One in Classic Film Blogathon

“Art is a wound turned into light,” said painter Georges Braque. It’s only fitting then that the place of light and shadows, the cinema, was where those early generations turned to make sense of…