Of course, in the male-dominated world of Hollywood, where “meatier” roles for women were often as rare as hen’s teeth. It was where powerful males, before WWII, who dominated: Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power, James Cagney, etc. Later on more sensitive roles de...
month headstart on seasonal programming with the 13-film “High School Horror”––most notable perhaps being a streaming premiere for the uncut version of Suspiria, plus the rare opportunity to see a Robert Rodriguez movie on the Criterion Channel––and a retrospective of Hong Kong vampire ...
The Spencer Davis Group (13) The Spin Doctors (1) The Square Set (1) The Standells (3) The Staple Singers (1) The Status Quo (2) The Stone Poneys (1) The Stone Roses (5) The Stooges (2) The Strangeloves (1) The Strawberry Children (2) The Strawbs (3) The...
Defense lawyer Duane West in court with real killer Richard “Dick’ Hickock. Capote, Wilson, and Blake are on the set of In Cold Blood in Kansas… The Herbert Clutter family portrait. The two were arrested on January 2, 1960, in Las Vegas and then executed by hanging on April 14, 196...
Cooper (King Kong, etc). RKO shipped in the young Ginger Rogers, who at 21 years old had already made 23 pictures. (Probably the best known was Stage Door, with Katherine Hepburn). One critic wrote, “The main point of Flying Down to Rio is the screen promise of Fred Astaire … He...