INFLUENCERS & INSPIRATION Whereby the influence on set or in the theatre watching someone else's film, inspires another... Kitty (Jean Harlow) and Dan Packard (Wallace Berry) battle it out before their Dinner at Eight (1933). Dinner at Eight (1933) revolves around an impending society dinner and the guests who grapple with scandal and secrets, high, low and sometimes...
INFLUENCERS & INSPIRATION Whereby the influence on set or in the theatre watching someone else’s film, inspires another… Ingrid Bergman During the filming of Notorious (1946), starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, director Alfred Hitchcock had the opportunity to observe an interesting relationship. Bergman, when in Europe in 1945 following VE Day, met the dashing war photographer, Robert...
INFLUENCERS & INSPIRATION Whereby the influence on set or in the theatre watching someone else’s film, inspires another… In the market for murder. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) in Double Indemnity (1944). Double Indemnity (1944) was written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on the book by James M. Cain. It’s a wonderful...
Classic Film Columnist
I'm a classic film columnist with a special devotion to those shot in black-and-white.
In my columns I celebrate the beauty of classic films and all those who helped to create them. And like all great works of art, I spotlight their continuing ability to influence and inspire.
My columns have appeared in The Catholic Free Press and on the sites 50 Plus CT and Mass Bay Film Project. Locally, I've conducted film programs on the great writer/director Preston Sturges. And, I've also presented my series, "Popcorn Sermons," at The Icon Museum and Study Center.
I'm also a proud member of The Film Noir Foundation, The International Buster Keaton Society and The Classic Movie Blog Association.
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