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‘The Misfits’ at the BFI
The Misfits (1961) was reissued in the UK and Ireland in June, and also headlined a major retrospective, ‘Marilyn’, at the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank. The month-long season featured...
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Thanhouser and the Birth of Cinema
A 52-minute documentary, The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema, will be screened in the US on TCM tonight, July 5, at 9 PM (Pacific Daylight Time), followed by three classic...
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Reader Giveaway: Postcards (and Bookplates) From Jeanne
I am pleased to offer these lovely bookplates (featuring vintage artwork of Jeanne as Sadie Thompson in Rain), and postcards featuring the cover art for Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed to all readers....
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First Review: Five Stars for Jeanne
The weeks following publication are an anxious time for any author, as we nervously, and somewhat impatiently await feedback from our readers. Now, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed has its first customer...
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‘Noir-ish’ Jeanne in ‘The Letter’
Jeanne Eagels confronts her lover, played by Herbert Marshall, in ‘The Letter’ (1929) A viewing of Bette Davis’ The Letter remake led one blogger back to Jeanne Eagels’ original performance as the...
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Born on This Day: Billie Burke (1884-1970)
In the first of a new series, I look at some of the major figures featured in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed. First up is Billie Burke: star of Broadway, wife of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld,...
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Dan Callahan on Jeanne Eagels, and ‘The Letter’
Jeanne Eagels, ‘The Letter’ (1929) Dan Callahan is an author and film historian, who has published biographies of Barbara Stanwyck and Vanessa Redgrave. (We refer to his Stanwyck bio, The Miracle...
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Born on This Day: Helen Broderick (1891-1959)
As part of an ongoing series covering major figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, I’m looking at the life of Helen Broderick – who danced in the first Ziegfeld Follies, and made the transition...
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The Forgotten Flapper
Laini Giles was born in Austin, Texas and lives in Edmonton, Alberta with her husband and three cats. An early devotion to Nancy Drew, and her discovery of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, spurred a...
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Born on This Day: Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)
Ethel Barrymore, 1937 Next up in the series profiling major figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed is Ethel Barrymore, the grande dame of America’s greatest theatrical dynasty. Ethel Mae Blythe was...
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Born on This Day: Elsie Ferguson 1883-1961
Next up in a series profiling key figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed is Elsie Ferguson, once considered the most beautiful actress on the Broadway stage, and an ‘aristocrat of the screen.’ Elsie...
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Born on This Day: Francine Larrimore (1898-1975)
Next up in the series profiling major figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed is Francine Larrimore, who made theatrical history as Roxie Hart in Chicago. Francine La Remée was born in France on...
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Born on This Day: Fredric March (1897-1975)
Next up in the series profiling key figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed is Fredric March. One of Hollywood’s versatile actors, his career spanned six decades. Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel was...
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Born on This Day: Émile Chautard (1864-1934)
Next up in an ongoing series profiling key figures in Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed is Émile Chautard. One of cinema’s early pioneers, he directed more than 100 films, and acted in sixty. Émile...
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Liz Smith Loves ‘Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed’
Liz Smith is a legendary columnist whose career began in the 1950s. She has known everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Madonna, and continues to offer her wise and witty opinions on today’s entertainment...
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Born on This Day: Ina Claire 1893-1985
Of Irish descent, Ina Fagan was born in Washington on October 15, 1893. She never knew her father, who had died in a car accident four months previously. With no family breadwinner, Ina and her mother...
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Born on This Day: Rita Hayworth 1918-1987
One of my favourite Hollywood stars, Rita Hayworth, was born on this day in 1918. Hollywood’s ‘love goddess’ also starred in a 1953 musical remake of Rain, entitled Miss Sadie Thompson. In Jeanne...
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Art Decades 5: ‘Amy’, and More
My review of Asif Kapadia’s documentary, Amy, is featured in Issue 5 of Art Decades, out now. This marks the first anniversary of the magazine. Singer Sophie Auster graces the autumnal cover, and the...
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Born on This Day: Jean de Limur 1887-1976
Jean de Limur (centre) with Charlie Chaplin (right), 1923 Jean Chamur Limur was born on November 13, 1887, in Vouhé, a town in Southern France. He began his film career as an actor in Hollywood, under...
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Born On This Day: Clifton Webb 1889-1966
Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck was born in Indiana on November 19, 1889. His father, Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, a ticket clerk, had married Mabel A. Parmelee, daughter of a railroad conductor, earlier that...
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