Her name was María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, but to
Hollywood, she was just Katy Jurado. She was the first Latina woman to
win a Golden Globe award—and the first to be nominated ...
When Patricia at Caftan Woman posed the idea of the Diamonds and Gold
blogathon
,
my immediate thought was to cover Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard,
as it's one of the meatiest roles ever fo...
Very sad to read today that radical Czech filmmaker Věra Chytilová
has died, albeit at the well-lived age of 85. She's most famous for
the irreverent feminist film Daisies (Sedmikrásky), but...
While searching for Cover Girl images, I found this adorable photo of
Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth, circa 1979-ish. In trying to find out
more about it, I came across an even more adorable story...
Few directors have made as lasting and beautiful a contribution to
musical films as Vincente Minnelli, the filmmaker responsible for
helming such enduring classics as An American in Paris, Meet...
The Oscars are one of Hollywood's greatest traditions, but they're
also one of the more inherently divisive. In any situation where
you're attempting to name a singular, unequivocal "Best" in a
s...
I recently got into a bit of trouble with a joke I made in my review
for Anchors Aweigh, in which I'd cheekily noted that my favorite
film genre was "Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as girl-chasin...
Carmen Miranda cuts a curious figure in film history. You know those
actors and characters you just can’t really picture smiling? The
Buster Keatons, the James Bonds, and so on. Part of what I ...
There’s a singular pleasure to watching an older movie and
discovering there’s an actor you thought you knew–an actor you
had pretty easily categorized as a Dad figure in your mind, someon...
