
The musings of an old-movie lover
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This essay first appeared in The Lady With the Torch: Columbia Pictures 1929 – 1959, published alongside the Locarno Film Festival retrospective programmed by Ehsan Khoshbakht in 2024. It is reprinted online here for the first time.
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Marilyn Monroe, 1947; photo by Earl Theisen
Exactly one hundred years ago today, on June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles. There was a time twenty years ago, back when I started this blog, when I would have shrugged a...
Rex Reed in dazzling youth, captured by paparazzo Ron Galella like the celebrity he was.
I know exactly what many people thought of the late Rex Reed. Short-tempered, careless with facts, close-minded at times. Took unseemly delight in ins...
The films, the patent, the stuff that ought to stop
There was I, looking for classic-film stills, as one does on a Sunday night, or any other night, and the one above brought me up short. It isn’t exactly obscure, but I didn’t recall seein...
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
At 3:21 a.m. on March 4, 2022, a 911 call was made from a house in a well-to-do suburb outside of Park City, Utah. The caller was Kouri Richins, and her emergency was her husband Eric...
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The continuing adventures of Self-Styled Siren, aka Farran Smith Nehme. Film critic, film lover, erstwhile “cult blogger.” Focuses on pre-1960 cinema but isn’t high-hat about it.
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