Love Crazy opens with Steve Ireland (William Powell) singing along with It’s Delightful to be Married. The film reunites him with frequent co-star Myrna Loy, playing his wife Susan. Together in the Thin Man series, they showed screengoers how delightful it was to be married. Their chemistry combined with their characters’ mature relationship with each other…
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You Know You’re A Film Fanatic When–Judy Holliday!
- Beth Ann Gallagher
- Appreciations, Awards, Comedies, Judy Holliday, Oscars, Performances
- Apr 5, 2014
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You know you’re a film fanatic when you get emotional defending Judy Holliday‘s 1950 Oscar win for Born Yesterday to your husband–and he agrees with you the whole time! Judy had formidable competition that year. She was up against Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, Bette Davis and Anne Baxter for All About Eve, and…
Happy New Year!
- Beth Ann Gallagher
- Comedies, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Holidays, New Year, New Year's Eve, Romantic, Screwball
- Jan 1, 2014
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Wishing you a wonderful New Year’s Eve and New Year! May both be filled with everyone and everything you love–like movies! As a special holiday treat for you, here is a scene from one of my favorite screwball comedies, Bachelor Mother (1939). Its plot seems inspired by Clara Bow‘s It (1927). A salesgirl named Polly Parrish…
Elsa Lanchester, What A Character!
- Beth Ann Gallagher
- Blogathons, Classic Hollywood, Elsa Lanchester
- Sep 2, 2012
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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 actors and actresses whose impact on classic film warrants as much attention and discussion as any star’s. My subject is Elsa…
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