Spellbound with Beth Ann * Page 19 of 22 *

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…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Blogathons, Classic Hollywood, Elsa Lanchester
Sep, 02, 2012
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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…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Cowboy Films, Novelty Films, Silent Film, Westerns, Will Rogers
Jul, 20, 2012
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Quick Impressions from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival–Night One

I’m overstimulated with images and sounds and staying up too late. That can mean only one thing–I’m attending the 17th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Well, most of it. Sometimes sleeping or eating…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Clara Bow, Film Festivals, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Silent Film
Jul, 14, 2012
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For the Love of Film Blogathon: Rear Window’s Just a Little Dog

Since Hitchcock was so invested in his dogs, it’s easy to see that his relationships with them inform the presence of his film dogs and sometimes give them pivotal roles to play. Others have…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Alfred Hitchcock, Blogathons
May, 18, 2012
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For the Love of Film Blogathon: Alfred Hitchcock & His Terriers

Alfred Hitchcock’s visage has been compared to the bulldog’s, but he preferred terriers. He was a fancier and owner of Sealyham Terriers. The Sealyham faces extinction today and has been called “rarer than a…

Beth Ann Gallagher
Alfred Hitchcock, Blogathons, Film Preservation
May, 16, 2012
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A Completely Fluffy Post About Oscar & Film Fashion

It’s time to dust off Spellbound with a completely fluffy post about Oscar and film fashion. Over the weeks in-depth posts will follow, but for now some simple visuals.

I’m another gown watcher of the…

bethanngallagher
Fashion, Joan Crawford, Oscars
Feb, 28, 2012
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Say It With Firecrackers

Somehow it’s a little too dry and a little too chilly for fireworks in the Bay Area, but I’m going to wish you a happy Fourth of July and say it with fireworks anyway….

bethanngallagher
Available on DVD, Dance, Fred Astaire, Holiday Movies, Tap
Jul, 03, 2011
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Name this Film? An Unidentified Silent Film Featuring Dorsey

The Nitrate Film Interest Group has posted new stills from another unidentified film in its vaults. Can you help them solve the mystery? Here are your first clues. The film is a silent, and…

bethanngallagher
Archives, Film Preservation, Identify This Film, Silent Film
Jun, 18, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir) Blogathon: The Bookseller Babe in The Big Sleep (1946)

Perhaps because I’ve worked as a bookseller, I’ve always felt a special affinity for Dorothy Malone’s bookstore proprietress in The Big Sleep. In the film private detective Philip Marlowe investigates an increasingly confusing case that…

bethanngallagher
Available on DVD, Blogathons, Booksellers on Film, Dorothy Malone, Film Noir, Film Noir on DVD, Film Preservation
Feb, 19, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir): The Mechanical Man of CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953)

John H. Auer’s CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS is an odd hodgepodge of a film. It crosses noir with docudrama with the guardian angel film. Its villains, Hayes Stewart, Lydia Biddel, and Penrod Biddel, are far more compelling…