The Screen Spectator
just a girl loving classic movies a bit too much. . .
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Putting the complicated in it's complicated. . .
Hello my friends!
I’m crowdsourcing for an upcoming piece and would love your help.
Who are your favorite messy, volatile, or unforgettable Classic Hollywood film couples (characters, not real-life romances)?
I’m especially interested i...
Escape: …Starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer, Unfortunately
I realized after publishing my MGM piece that I’d neglected to mention Escape (1940), the Norma Shearer/Robert Taylor thriller in which the American born Taylor returns to Nazi Germany to save his mother from a concentration camp — a story...
Emotional Taxidermy: Why MGM Movies Break Your Heart But Don’t Touch Your Soul
Before the year closes, here’s a truth that tends to get me side-eyed by some classic film people:
There’s something fundamentally soulless at the core of MGM.
Not every picture, not every performer —
but the overall sensibility they op...
The Women of Nightmare Alley and the Long Con of Intimacy
How Stanton Carlisle's relationships with Zeena, Molly and Lilith reveal the dark side of the intersection between seduction and ambition.
This is a side mission away from the Bad Boys of Film Noir series, sparked by an idea I couldn’t qui...
Stan, you've got to stop. . .you're going against God!
Tyrone Power's Stanton Carlisle is one my favorite bad boys of film noir
Stanton Carlisle: The Bright, Shining Nothing at the Heart of the American Dream
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I create videos on YouTube about classic movies and write about them here to prove to my mom that I wasn't wasting my time "in front of that darn television watching all those old movies."
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