Self-Styled Siren
The musings of an old-movie lover
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Eric Portman in Wanted for Murder
Today is the birthday of Eric Portman, one of British cinema’s most unusual postwar stars, with a potent attraction that was rooted in personal magnetism, not looks. One of Portman’s best roles was in Want...
"The beauty of an old-fashioned straight razor"
Susan Hayward in a publicity shot for the movie
Happy belated birthday to Edythe Marrener, aka Susan Hayward, born June 30, 1917. In her honor, I’m re-publishing this 2012 essay on the joys of I Can Get It for You Wholesale, one of my favo...
An Extended Apprenticeship
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.
Steve...
Marilyn at 100
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...
In Memoriam: Rex Reed
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...
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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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