San Francisco Silent Film Festival Silent Winter 2013
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s annual Silent Winter closed with the grand sounds of the Mighty Wurlitzer last night. I had to sit in my seat overwhelmed by the last film and the…
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
For Valentine’s Day, here is one of my favorite romantic scenes from a musical. The film Lovely to Look At, a remake of Roberta, may not be memorable as a whole, but it showcases…
Feeling burdened by your daily drudgeries?
Always hanging out doing the same old thing?
Dreaming of doing something new?
Fear being led astray?
Get yourself down to the Castro Theatre!
For a feast of films at the Silent Winter Event.
And for a royally good…
Happy New Year–Especially for Fans of Clara Bow!
Happy New Year’s wishes go to readers of Spellbound! I suspect quite a few of you brought in the New Year by celebrating with cinematic treats. I did. Hubby and I brought in the…
A Movie Manifesta
Spellbound by Movies is a passion project. I fell in love with movies at a young age. As an only child I might have been more susceptible to their lure. I was making up…
Happy Birthday to–Lillian Gish!
Lillian Gish was born today in 1893, and in honor of her birthday, I went searching for something new to learn about her. I found it thanks to the Internet Archive. In its files…
Elsa Lanchester as Queenie in Bell, Book and Candle
This post is part of the What A Character! Blogathon. It runs September 22 through 24. It celebrates the character actors who helped make classic film as great as it was.
One of my favorite…
Accents & Sally’s Diction Lessons from Radio Days (1987)
My husband told me he heard a young actress being interviewed who pronounces her Gs the same why I do. More specifically, she uses a hard G when saying words ending in -ing. That…
Elsa Lanchester, What A Character!
This month I’m participating in the What A Character! Blogathon. Organized by Paula of Paula’s Cinema Club, Kellee of Outspoken & Freckled, and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen, the blogathon celebrates those character…
Back from the Rodeo & Will Rogers’ The Ropin’ Fool
Yesterday I went to my first rodeo at the Stanislaus County Fair. Keeping today’s post in a cowboy theme, here’s an excerpt of Will Rogers’ The Ropin’ Fool.
This novelty, silent short from 1922 was…
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