#blogathon

In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Silentology are hosting a blogathon for National Silent Movie Day on September 29th and I decided to participate. Yes-- there is a National Silent Movie Day!

This blog has been on this hellsite for ten years now and several of my many interests have been given a prominent place here, but this blog was originally created to showcase my adoration of silent film. I've been in love with the silent era since I was fifteen years old-- it was a period of great evolution, experimentation, and artistry, achieving a wordless and dreamlike mode of storytelling that even the finest talkies cannot properly imitate. Several other bloggers will be covering individual films, but I decided to cover a year-- specifically, the highest-grossing movies of 1921. My post is going to be a bit ambitious compared to what I normally do on here. I plan on covering each film's production history, initial reception, and then my own impressions. That's going to be a tall order and I hope to do it justice. I have watched most of the films listed at least once, so it will be fun revisiting those I have not seen in a while.

Definitely check out both In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Silentology to see what else will be on the roster!

For the What A Character! Blogathon, I've chosen to spotlight the cast of LURED (1947) #TCMParty

I was a late bloomer with Lured. I didn’t see Douglas Sirk’s remake of the 1939 French film Pieges until the mid-teens of the present century. This comedy/drama/film noir is a bit complicated, and I don’t want to reveal too much for those who haven’t seen the film. It’s so much fun, you deserve to see it for yourself. But here goes: Never-lovelier Lucille Ball portrays Sandra Carpenter, an…

Announcing the Olivia de Havilland Blogathon: July 1/2, 2020

I’m not sure where I first saw Olivia de Havilland, but it might have been as Maid Marion in Robin Hood. She shone in her simple but gorgeous costumes, opposite Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, and Errol Flynn. Over the years, I saw many of her other films, including her beautiful performance as the compassionate Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.

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