tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54189791906777763392024-03-28T23:30:05.608-04:00My Romance with MoviesTwelve years doing this... still fun for me and hope it will be for you, too. The last 3 postings are displayed. After that use arrows to navigate thru all years and months of each year. It's really pretty easy. Dash off a note if something strikes your fancy or rubs up against your ire. New postings 5th, 10th,15th, 20th, 25th & 30th of month.TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-69960057887281097832023-01-15T13:16:00.000-05:002023-01-15T13:16:47.513-05:00Goodbye<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">The time has come to draw a curtain on the blog. I know it seems rather sudden and in a way it is. However, I have been thinking about it for some time now but one thing or another finds me back at the computer pounding out something new.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">The blog began 12 years ago. I can say that after all this time I am finally running out of things to say. I have covered most all of the movies I've wanted to cover and written pieces on most all of the personalities I wanted to write about. I have never been particularly interested in writing about any time frame other than Hollywood's Golden Age. Writing about today's movies or current actors, actresses, directors or others holds little interest for me. One can read about them anywhere.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">In addition to this there are some other things I want to do which I have been unable to do and won't be able to do if the blog continues. It is simply too time-consuming to leave room for anything else beyond the day-to-day routine.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Movies have consumed my life since I was a young child. As some of you know, they originally started as a safe haven from the fighting around my house. When things got really rough, my mother gave me fifty cents and shoved me out the door and told me to head to our neighborhood theater. After awhile I seemed to need movies like I needed food and water and air. After a couple of years of weekend movies (and mainly double features), if my mother said we were going somewhere as a family for a day, I wanted to ask her if she wouldn't rather stay home and fight. I needed my fix.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Writing about them has provided some of that same delirious joy I felt as a child but I also find much of it watching them on television these days with all the resources that are available. How lovely it will be to watch one after another after another and not say <i>oh yeah, what about the blog</i>? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">I want to add that much of the joy of writing the blog comes from hearing from so many of you. You've made me think, you've taught me much, you've made me laugh and I have loved how much some of you have loved movies and know so much about them. I will sincerely miss hearing from you.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Thank you so much. It's been one of my favorite things I have ever done.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">See you at the movies.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Rob</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-62530173882157681462023-01-10T11:30:00.000-05:002023-01-10T11:30:31.652-05:00Visiting Film Noir: The Big Sleep<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">1946 Film Noir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">From Warner Bros</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Directed by Howard Hawks</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Humphrey Bogart</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Lauren Bacall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Martha Vickers</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Dorothy Malone</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">John Ridgley</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora;"><span style="font-size: large;">Regis Toomey</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Sonia Darrin</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Peggy Knudsen</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Charles Waldron</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Bob Steele</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Elisha Cook Jr.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Louis Jean Heydt</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Joy Barlowe</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora; font-size: large;">Theodore von Eltz</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lora;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2023/01/visiting-film-noir-big-sleep.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-67646673371629823072023-01-05T17:14:00.000-05:002023-01-05T17:14:16.303-05:00Ann Miller<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">She was a whirling</span><span style="font-size: large;"> dervish as a tap dancer. I thought she was one of the fastest, most energetic female tappers I had ever seen. She always looked like she was having a great time, that big, toothpaste smile never leaving her face. She loved making movies and she adored Hollywood. She may have been one of its best goodwill ambassadors. Too bad they didn't regard her as highly as she did them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2023/01/ann-miller.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-54759495394625787492022-12-30T13:56:00.000-05:002022-12-30T13:56:34.935-05:00Guilty Pleasures: The Honey Pot<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">1967 Mystery Comedy</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">From United Artists</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Rex Harrison</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Susan Hayward</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Cliff Robertson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Capucine</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Edie Adams</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Maggie Smith</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Adolfo Celi</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/12/guilty-pleasures-honey-pot.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-50668768011284894542022-12-25T01:28:00.001-05:002022-12-28T15:00:46.440-05:00From the 1940s: Miracle on 34th Street<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">1947 Comedy</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">From 20th Century Fox</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Directed by George Seaton</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Maureen O'Hara</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">John Payne</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Edmund Gwenn</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Natalie Wood</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Gene Lockhart</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Porter Hall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">William Frawley</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Jerome Cowan</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Philip Tonge</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Jack Albertson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Thelma Ritter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/12/from-1940s-miracle-on-34th-street.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-49235578688762454122022-12-20T12:23:00.001-05:002022-12-28T14:58:40.093-05:00From the 1990s: The Grass Harp<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">1995 Comedy Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">From Fine Line Features</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Directed by Charlie Matthau</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Piper Laurie</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Sissy Spacek</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Walter Matthau</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Edward Furlong</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Playfair Display"; font-size: large;">Mary Steenburgen</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Roddy McDowall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Nell Carter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Sean Patrick Flanery</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Charles Durning</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Joe Don Baker</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Scott Wilson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Bonnie Bartlett</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Playfair Display; font-size: large;">Jack Lemmon</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/12/from-1990s-grass-harp.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-11890743700057074942022-12-15T14:57:00.000-05:002022-12-15T14:57:57.222-05:00The Directors: Edmund Goulding<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Josefin Sans"; font-size: x-large;">He is not so </span><span style="font-family: "Josefin Sans"; font-size: large;">well-known today but in Hollywood of the 1920s and 30s he was an eccentric genius whose name was to be reckoned with. He became well-known for directing a number of highly-polished movies with their well-crafted stories and compelling characters. Friends and neighbors and coworkers and more than a few sailors and construction workers and European royalty knew him as the host of some of the greatest gay orgies Tinseltown was ever to know. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-directors-edmund-goulding.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-10577241163570185712022-12-10T16:14:00.000-05:002022-12-10T16:14:23.107-05:00From the 1950s: The Big Sky<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">1952 Western</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">From RKO</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Directed by Howard Hawks</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kirk Douglas</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dewey Martin</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elizabeth Threatt</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arthur Hunnicutt</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buddy Baer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Steven Geray</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henri Letondal</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hank Worden</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jim Davis</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Iron Eyes Cody</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/12/from-1950s-big-sky.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-65941370074180907172022-12-05T10:49:00.003-05:002022-12-06T12:43:40.869-05:00Visiting Film Noir: They Drive By Night<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">1940 Film Noir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">From Warner Bros</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Directed by Raoul Walsh</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">George Raft</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Ann Sheridan</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Ida Lupino</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Humphrey Bogart</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Alan Hale</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Gale Page</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Roscoe Karns</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">John Litel</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">George Tobias</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/12/visiting-film-noir-they-drive-by-night.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-27290038926368634502022-11-30T15:00:00.002-05:002022-11-30T15:00:46.429-05:00From the 1940s: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">1941 Horror-Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">From MGM</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Directed by Victor Fleming</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Spencer Tracy</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Ingrid Bergman</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Lana Turner</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Donald Crisp</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Ian Hunter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">C. Aubrey Smith</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Peter Godfrey</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/11/from-1940s-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-86771889871725019272022-11-25T12:46:00.001-05:002022-12-15T15:27:38.419-05:00From the 1940s: The Constant Nymph<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">1943 Romance Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">From Warner Bros</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Directed by Edmund Goulding</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Charles Boyer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Joan Fontaine</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Alexis Smith</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Brenda Marshall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Charles Coburn</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Dame May Whitty</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Peter Lorre</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Joyce Reynolds</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope; font-size: large;">Jean Muir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Manrope;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/11/from-1940s-constant-nymph.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-76277579486197683522022-11-20T14:02:00.000-05:002022-11-20T14:02:56.069-05:00From the 1960s: The Cincinnati Kid<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">1965 Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">From MGM</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Directed by Norman Jewison</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Steve McQueen</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Edward G. Robinson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Ann-Margret</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Karl Malden</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Tuesday Weld</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Joan Blondell</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Rip Torn </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Jack Weston</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Cab Calloway</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Jeff Corey</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Kanit; font-size: large;">Milton Selzer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/11/from-1960s-cincinnati-kid.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-72536252538805303032022-11-15T14:48:00.000-05:002022-11-15T14:48:49.621-05:00From the 1960s: The Sundowners<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">1960 Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">From Warner Bros</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Directed by Fred Zinnemann</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Deborah Kerr</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Robert Mitchum</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Peter Ustinov</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Glynis Johns</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Dina Merrill</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Michael Anderson Jr.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Chips Rafferty</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">John Meillon</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Lola Brooks</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Ronald Fraser</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/11/from-1960s-sundowners.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-80162001687843322222022-11-10T11:58:00.002-05:002022-11-10T11:58:58.354-05:00Visiting Film Noir: Key Largo<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">1948 Film Noir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">From Warner Bros</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Directed by John Huston</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Starring </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Humphrey Bogart</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Edward G. Robinson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Lauren Bacall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Lionel Barrymore</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Claire Trevor</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Thomas Gomez</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Harry Lewis</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">William Haade</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Dan Seymour</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">Monte Blue</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px'; font-size: large;">John Rodney</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Slabo 27px';"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/11/visiting-film-noir-key-largo.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-80002609149217477102022-11-05T13:35:00.000-04:002022-11-05T13:35:53.457-04:00Visiting Film Noir: Private Hell 36<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">1954 Film Noir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">From: The Filmakers Releasing </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Directed by Don Siegel</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;"><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Starring</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Ida Lupino</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Steve Cochran</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Howard Duff</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Dean Jagger</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: Dosis; font-size: large;">Dorothy Malone</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/11/visiting-film-noir-private-hell-36.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-10635015989626167962022-10-30T13:01:00.000-04:002022-10-30T13:01:08.550-04:00Visiting Film Noir: The Man Who Cheated Himself<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">1950 Film Noir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">From 20th Century Fox</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Directed by Felix Feist</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Starring </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Lee J. Cobb</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Jane Wyatt</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">John Dall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: large;">Lisa Howard</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-large;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/10/visiting-film-noir-man-who-cheated.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-72624699681935419332022-10-25T14:08:00.001-04:002022-10-26T17:58:17.061-04:00Marsha Hunt<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A friend of the blog</span><span style="font-size: large;">, Julie, requested that I write something about Marsha Hunt who died last month at the age of 104. I had once briefly considered doing so but decided against it because not only did I know little about her but I was fairly certain the same applied to many of you. Julie said Hunt was <i>one of the most remarkable women who ever lived</i>. Well, that was compelling and so I decided to check out the actress and found that I would be hard-pressed to find fault with Julie's comment. So here we are.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/10/marsha-hunt.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-2909631540180846702022-10-20T12:20:00.000-04:002022-10-20T12:20:16.422-04:00From the 1950s: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">1958 War Biography</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">From 20th Century Fox</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Directed by Mark Robson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Ingrid Bergman</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Curt Jurgens</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Robert Donat</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Athene Seyler</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Peter Chong</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Burt Kwouk</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Tsai Chin</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Moultrie Kelsall</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: large;">Ronald Squire</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/10/from-1950s-inn-of-sixth-happiness.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-807496879397824622022-10-15T13:29:00.000-04:002022-10-15T13:29:12.203-04:00From the 1950s: Mister Cory<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">1957 Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">From Universal-International</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Directed by Blake Edwards</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Tony Curtis</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Martha Hyer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Charles Bickford</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Kathryn Grant</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">William Reynolds</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Henry Daniell</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: large;">Willis Bouchey</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/10/from-1950s-mister-cory.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-21870745045546017402022-10-10T12:24:00.000-04:002022-10-10T12:24:55.512-04:00Cameron Mitchell<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He was an occasional</span><span style="font-size: large;"> leading man in B pictures and a second lead in some A films and some good ones, too. His tenure at 20th Century Fox produced his best work. In two of his best films, he's a charming, warm-hearted good guy but there can be no doubt he made a career out of playing flotsam. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/10/cameron-mitchell.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-56185220380764625762022-10-05T11:19:00.000-04:002022-10-05T11:19:20.566-04:00From the 1950s: All that Heaven Allows<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">1955 Romantic Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">From Universal-International</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Directed by Douglas Sirk </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Jane Wyman</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Rock Hudson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Agnes Moorehead</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">William Reynolds</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Gloria Talbott</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Virginia Grey</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Charles Drake</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Conrad Nagel</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Hayden Rorke</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Baskerville; font-size: large;">Jacqueline deWit</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/10/from-1950s-all-that-heaven-allows.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-44503459107151077472022-09-30T13:23:00.000-04:002022-09-30T13:23:52.627-04:00From the 1990s: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">1990 Family Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">From Miramax</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Directed by James Ivory</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Paul Newman</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Joanne Woodward</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Blythe Danner</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Kyra Sedgwick</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Robert Sean Leonard</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Margaret Welsh</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Simon Callow</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Saundra McClain</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;">Austin Pendleton</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/09/from-1990s-mr-and-mrs-bridge.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-71304127674516193952022-09-25T13:16:00.001-04:002022-09-26T10:05:02.194-04:00The Directors: Rudolph Maté<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Dosis;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was aware of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Rudolph Maté early in my moviegoing because I seemed to constantly see the movies he directed. His specialties and mine were aligned... westerns and film noir. Additionally both of those genres tended to be B films and B's were also my specialty, particularly back in the days of double (and sometimes triple) bills.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-directors-rudolph-mate.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-92193396582781630682022-09-20T15:31:00.006-04:002022-09-21T10:58:38.767-04:00From the 1960s: The Prize<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1963 Mystery Drama</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">From Metro Goldwyn Mayer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Directed by Mark Robson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Starring</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Paul Newman</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Edward G. Robinson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Elke Sommer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Diane Baker</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Micheline Presle</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Gérard Oury</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sergio Fantoni</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kevin McCarthy</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Leo G. Carroll</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sacha Pitoëff</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Don Dubbins</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">John Wengraf</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jacqueline Beer</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/09/from-1960s-prize.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5418979190677776339.post-46128834774638942442022-09-15T16:09:00.001-04:002022-09-16T17:27:04.333-04:00Happy 100th, Janis Paige<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Handlee;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Regrets? I've had a few. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Damn few actually. But one of them is that I never saw or met Janis Paige. I've met or seen more than my fair share of famous folks but I'd trade in a couple of them to have had a chance to meet this multi-talented, effervescent lady. Oh, how I liked her. I know </span></span><span style="font-family: Handlee; font-size: large;">there will be many who would say <i>who's Janis Paige</i>? Of course most of that crowd would not be reading this blog in the first place.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Handlee;"><span></span></span></div><a href="http://myromancewithmovies.blogspot.com/2022/09/happy-100th-janis-paige.html#more">Read more »</a>TheMovieManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291067058543959452noreply@blogger.com7