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Happy International Women’s Day 2016!

Beth Ann Gallagher
Anita Loos, Holidays, International Women's Day, Screenwriters
Mar 8, 2016
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For International Women’s Day, let’s take a moment to remember a woman of words, Anita Loos. She started screenwriting in the silent era, and she’s credited for elevating the intertitle beyond the functional into an art form. A wordsmith, wit, and satirist, her intertitles had zing. Yes, they had “It.” It’s likely her exposure to the family tabloid…

Tab Hunter Confidential at CAIFF 2015

Beth Ann Gallagher
Anthony Perkins, CAIFF, Classic Hollywood, Debbie Reynolds, Directors, Divine, Documentaries, Dolores Hart, Film Festivals, Jeffrey Schwarz, John Waters, LBGTQ, Natalie Wood, Tab Hunter
Oct 4, 2015
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Today we know that Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter had a secret. While he was working hard to become an actor appreciated for more than his looks, he was a gay man living in the closet, and that fact would have destroyed his career if it became common knowledge. It would have shattered his all-American boy image…

Happy New Year–Especially for Fans of Clara Bow!

Beth Ann Gallagher
Clara Bow, Screenings, Seasonal Greetings
Jan 1, 2013
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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 New Year watching a pair of Deanna Durbin movies at the Stanford Theatre. We started with the 7:30 PM screening, which…

Accents & Sally’s Diction Lessons from Radio Days (1987)

Beth Ann Gallagher
Comedies, Directors, Judy Holliday, Mia Farrow, Old Time Radio, Woody Allen
Sep 8, 2012
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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 means walking would be pronounced as walk-ing-guh. The last syllable is more of a half-syllable and softer in the throat than…

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…

String of Pearls

At Chez Gallagher, we’ve been listening to String of Pearls. Film lovers of Hollywood’s golden age will enjoy this broadcast of “music from the golden years of entertainment”. BBC Wales host Dewi Griffiths’s program could be called stream of consciousness radio. Like a string of pearls where one pearl leads to another, one song leads…

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