Film Fashion Frenzy: Cinema Fashion Shops of the 1930s

September 24, 2011.Reading time 8 minutes.

This post is in conjunction with today’s Fashion in Film Blogathon behing hosted by the lovely Angela at The Hollywood Revue! Scene: Main Street, USA. 1937. Boy and girl at the local theatre watching the new Carole Lombard comedy Nothing Sacred. Lots of laughter, lots of coddling. The sight of Lombard in a voluminous yet […]

Harlow at 100: Day 4 of the Jean Harlow Blogathon

March 3, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

Harlow at 100: Day Four of the Jean Harlow Blogathon! Today is the day, folks! The hundredth birthday of one cinema’s finest comediennes and a genuinely warm, kind-hearted lady. We are halfway through the Blogathon and you guys are really showing the love. Is today’s lineup ever a lulu! Birthday tributes to the baby are […]

Harlow at 100: Day 4 of the Jean Harlow Blogathon

March 3, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

Blog it for Baby: Day One of the Jean Harlow Blogathon

February 28, 2011.Reading time 11 minutes.

The Jean Harlow Blogathon Day One! Today The Jean Harlow Blogathon kicks off and we are off to a roaring start! Thoughtful, imaginative and introspective—everyone is really putting out some beautiful work which just amps up the excitement of what’s in store for the rest of the week. Thanks to all the participants who have […]

Movie of the Month: My Man Godfrey

September 22, 2009.Reading time 17 minutes.

“God, but this film is beautiful,” Roger Ebert once said of Gregory La Cava’s 1936 satirical screwball comedy My Man Godfrey. “This movie, and the actors in it, and its style of production, and the system that produced it, and the audiences that loved it, have all been replaced by pop culture of brainless vulgarity. […]