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2018 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge

Beth Ann Gallagher
Book Reviews, Books, Summer Reading Challenge
Sep 13, 2018
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This is the summer I finally entered Raquel Stecher’s Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge.

Remembering Robert Osborne

Beth Ann Gallagher
Classic Film, Film Historians, Remembrances, Robert Osborne
Mar 8, 2017
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Late Monday morning I was crying. A quick look at Twitter let me know something I hoped wouldn’t happen yet had.

Quote: The Importance of Women Writing Their Own Stories

Beth Ann Gallagher
Illeana Douglas, Quotations, Women in Film
Feb 23, 2017
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“I did this show called TRAILBLAZING WOMEN, and the biggest thing I’ve learned in two years of doing the show is that men write their history and that’s why they’re remembered more than women. Cecil B. DeMille made sure to write everything down, but all the other women that were working at the same time…

Why I created a Patreon account.

Beth Ann Gallagher
Anouncements, Business of Blogging, Carole Lombard, Patreon
Jan 17, 2017
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I’ve been getting ambitious about Spellbound by Movies. There’s so much I want to do with my blog, I want to invest more time in it to promote classic and silent films. While I say Spellbound is sometimes irregularly, but always lovingly updated, I’d like to get on a regular schedule. I have expansion ideas. There are…

The Road to #TCMFF 2016: Paved With Buttons?

Beth Ann Gallagher
Fan Art, Film Festivals, TCM Fans, TCM Film Festival
Apr 18, 2016
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As part of my coverage of the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival (which I’ll abbreviate to TCMFF from hereon), I’m debuting a new feature for my blog–The Road to #TCMFF 2016. Pieces in the series will focus not only on things to do and see while at TCMFF, but also on the fan culture associated…

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…

The Women Film Critics Twitter List

Beth Ann Gallagher
Film Community, Film Critics, Film Twitter, Women Film Critics
Mar 6, 2016
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What else was I up to during my winter blogging hiatus? My most initially time-consuming movie project outside of Spellbound involves Twitter. After articles from Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Variety bemoaned the lack of women film critics or their lack of prominence in the industry, I decided to do something pro-active. I created a women film critics…

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 dons a catsuit for convenience in movement as she commits her crimes. This may be the first cinematic catsuit, and it…

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