The last film by James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House) is a forty-minute short based on a one-act play by William Saroyan. Whale had directed the play in 1942 as part of a show to entertain Us troops passing through La. The opportunity to film it arrived through strange circumstances.Millionaire Huntington Hartford loved his wife, Marjorie Steele, who was an actress. He decided to bankroll a series of short films showcasing her talents. Somehow Whale, who was thoroughly retired from film direction, was approached, and he welcomed the idea of adapting Saroyan's lonely parable to the screen. Harry Morgan was recruited as male lead.Like a lot of late works, this one needs approaching with a sympathetic attitude. The play is built around its title, a line shouted like a refrain throughout the piece. For some reason, Harry Morgan shouts every other line too. This was far from Morgan's debut,...
- 12/8/2017
- MUBI
Thomas Gilbert, a 70-year-old hedge fund founder, was shot dead in his swanky New York apartment Sunday, and his 30-year-old son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., was taken in by police for questioning after the son had barricaded himself inside his apartment, say reports. The two had been arguing in the elder Gilbert's bedroom at around 3 p.m., sources tell the New York Post. The victim's wife called 911, according to the paper. The Associated Press reported Thomas Gilbert was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. The son had fled the murder seen on foot, officials told the New York's Daily News,...
- 1/5/2015
- by Stephen M. SIlverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is a monthly newspaper run by Steve DeBellis, a well know St. Louis historian, and it’s the largest one-man newspaper in the world. The concept of The Globe is that there is an old historic headline, then all the articles in that issue are written as though it’s the year that the headline is from. It’s an unusual concept but the paper is now in its 25th successful year! Steve and I collaborated recently on an all-Vincent Price issue of The Globe in 2011 and he has asked me to write a regular monthly movie-related column. This month’s St. Louis Globe-Democrat is written as if it’s 1949, the year Joe Besser starred with Abbott and Costello in the comedy Africa Speaks. We are publishing several Joe Besser articles in this issue to help promote the upcoming Joe Besser Film Festival which will...
- 5/31/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
French Lessons en chanson Jean Brassard and Steve Ross Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York, May 21, 2011
It was 1960-something and I was attending the summer session at Hollywood High; a friend got me in to usher at the Huntington Hartford Theater (now the Fernando Lamas Theater) on Vine Street. One night some French guy was to sing. I had never heard of him, but there was an extra-special excitement in the air as Maurice Chevalier, Hedy Lamar, Steve Allen, Marlene Dietrich (on the arm of a young blond muscleman), Meredith Wilson (who wrote The Music Man) and other luminaries chatted in the lobby. The house lights dimmed and Maurice Chevalier with much glee introduced the singer. A thin man, in a suit that seemed to be much too tight, entered to thunderous applause and sang a song in French (a language I did not know). The audience went wild. He...
It was 1960-something and I was attending the summer session at Hollywood High; a friend got me in to usher at the Huntington Hartford Theater (now the Fernando Lamas Theater) on Vine Street. One night some French guy was to sing. I had never heard of him, but there was an extra-special excitement in the air as Maurice Chevalier, Hedy Lamar, Steve Allen, Marlene Dietrich (on the arm of a young blond muscleman), Meredith Wilson (who wrote The Music Man) and other luminaries chatted in the lobby. The house lights dimmed and Maurice Chevalier with much glee introduced the singer. A thin man, in a suit that seemed to be much too tight, entered to thunderous applause and sang a song in French (a language I did not know). The audience went wild. He...
- 6/13/2011
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Six-time Emmy winner Anthony Geary was voted the Greatest Soap Actor of All-Time by a panel of 15 past and present soap critics assembled by We Love Soaps TV. While soap fans will always think of him as the bad-boy-turned-sort-of-good-turned-especially-bad-lately Luke Spencer on General Hospital, Geary has made an impact in all mediums, from the theater to daytime to primetime episodics to movies. His latest musical, "Into The Woods," opens on Friday, October 22, where Geary will be playing the Narrator / Mysterious man. In this exclusive two-part new interview with We Love Soaps TV, Geary previews the new musical and reflects on a long and storied career spanning four decades.
We Love Soaps TV: So, congratulations on your new show ("Into The Woods").
Anthony Geary: Thank you.
We Love Soaps TV: When we did our countdown of the 50 Greatest Actors, we published some classic articles on you and there was one...
We Love Soaps TV: So, congratulations on your new show ("Into The Woods").
Anthony Geary: Thank you.
We Love Soaps TV: When we did our countdown of the 50 Greatest Actors, we published some classic articles on you and there was one...
- 10/31/2010
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Recession? What recession? Some brave restaurateurs are defying the economic gloom and doom and opening new places. We take a look at the design behind a select few. High atop the Museum of Arts and Design, New York's Robert commands a million dollar view.
With a wall of windows overlooking Central Park, and cocktail tables by one of Zaha Hadid's pet designers, Robert--the restaurant atop the new Museum of Arts and Design--starts with both enviable design cred and a million dollar view.
The first serious restaurant by owners Brian Seltzer, whose day job is as an internist, and Michael Weinstein, chairman of Ark Restaurants, this venue is a tribute to Robert Isabell, Manhattan's top shelf wedding designer, who died last year. Pronunciation note to the pretentious: That's "Robert" as in the Duluth native Isabell was, not a Frenchified Ro-ber, as in The Colbert Report.
On Thursday through Saturday nights,...
With a wall of windows overlooking Central Park, and cocktail tables by one of Zaha Hadid's pet designers, Robert--the restaurant atop the new Museum of Arts and Design--starts with both enviable design cred and a million dollar view.
The first serious restaurant by owners Brian Seltzer, whose day job is as an internist, and Michael Weinstein, chairman of Ark Restaurants, this venue is a tribute to Robert Isabell, Manhattan's top shelf wedding designer, who died last year. Pronunciation note to the pretentious: That's "Robert" as in the Duluth native Isabell was, not a Frenchified Ro-ber, as in The Colbert Report.
On Thursday through Saturday nights,...
- 2/2/2010
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
Every week on Vf.com, filmmaker Jamie Johnson offers a glimpse into the secret lives of the super-rich. Included on my reading list this summer are a couple of biographies about the Gilded Age’s legendary newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr. He was a fabulously rich media mogul who inherited the crown jewel of his family’s fortune: a prominent paper called the New York Herald. Stories about him involve everything from late-night streaking while steering his team of trotters through open city streets to urinating in the fireplace at a gathering, in celebration of his engagement to a glamorous patrician debutante. The more I learn about the man, the more fascinated I become with his scandalous life and the mythology he left behind. Today’s elite billionaires are painfully dull by comparison. It’s hard to imagine any of the individuals on Forbes magazine’s list of the...
- 8/4/2009
- Vanity Fair
Eartha Kitt, who used her seductive purr and sultry style to charm audiences as an actress, singer and cabaret star, died Thursday of colon cancer. She was 81.
The cancer was detected about two years ago and treated, but it recurred after a period of remission. Kitt recently had been treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
"She came back strongly; she had been performing until two months ago," said Andrew Freedman, a longtime friend and publicist. "We had dates booked through 2009."
Among Kitt's hits was the Christmas tune "Santa Baby," lending poignancy to her Christmas Day death. The song went gold this year, and she received the gold record before she died, Freedman said.
Slinky and catlike, Kitt described herself as a "sex kitten": She followed Julie Newmar in the role of Catwoman on the TV series "Batman" during the 1960s.
But the seductress also could be a political provocateur.
The cancer was detected about two years ago and treated, but it recurred after a period of remission. Kitt recently had been treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
"She came back strongly; she had been performing until two months ago," said Andrew Freedman, a longtime friend and publicist. "We had dates booked through 2009."
Among Kitt's hits was the Christmas tune "Santa Baby," lending poignancy to her Christmas Day death. The song went gold this year, and she received the gold record before she died, Freedman said.
Slinky and catlike, Kitt described herself as a "sex kitten": She followed Julie Newmar in the role of Catwoman on the TV series "Batman" during the 1960s.
But the seductress also could be a political provocateur.
- 12/25/2008
- by By Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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