ccf said Mae Clarke plays this role with an acceptance of her fate, having taken the step to become a lady of the night, she can't cross back to decent society. Isn't it a pity this marvellous actress is most famous for receiving a grapefruit in the face from James Cagney. :D Those of us who grew up...

I agree that Lillian Gish has an ethereal quality about her, but the woman never smiles. She’s so serious in all of her pictures and in the roles she played. A very “cold” beauty, if you will. That’s why I like Dorothy’s “beauty” more; she has one of the most genuine smiles in the business, and a ve...

gagman You’re right about Crawford in West Point , I think mostly because she doesn’t have Anita Page as her competition (I’ll take Anita in Daughters over Maidens , though. Guess I like her “bad”.) We’ll have to agree to disagree about Philbin. For me she’s very “Victorian” in her appearance, and I...

Gagman--Nazimova was 42 or 43 when she made Salomé , and pulled off looking (and acting) like she was 14! That, and the many photos I’ve seen of her from that period is why I chose her. Nobody, including Valentino, looked good in Camille . (Too much competition with Rambova’s wacky sets.) I might ch...

My list in no particular order except the first two:

Greta Garbo
Louise Brooks
Mabel Normand
Bessie Love
Olive Thomas
Dorothy Gish
Jobyna Ralston
Anna May Wong
Alla Nazimova
Clara Bow


Honorable mention: Catherine Hessling in the Renoir silents

Thank you CCF, I left Libeled Lady off the list. How can you beat Jean Harlow/Spencer Tracy? Well, with Myrna Loy and William Powell, of course!

Apparently Weber did another film on birth control, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle , which provided a much clearer message. Weber herself stared in the film, which, unfortunately, is lost. It amazes me the topics she, and others, tackled so early in the history of cinema. Hopefully more of these gem...

My wife is an avid gardener but as she’s away for two weeks on a business trip, it’s up to me to do her daylily crosses and photograph any of the new daylilies as they flower, so she can last year’s crosses. Since I used to fertilize with Round-Up, I’m pretty much punting here. I did notice that man...

ccf--Both Shrek and Shrek 2 are rated PG in the U.S. and may be inappropriate for young children. (Particularly Shrek 2 , my nephew was eight or nine, I think, before he saw Shrek 2 . He has a cat, and loved the Puss-in-Boots character.) Stephen-- Yellow Submarine was a co-production between the UK ...

Tossing in my two cents...


My Man Godfrey
Bringing Up Baby
Desk Set
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
The Thin Man
It Happened One Night
Roxanne
Annie Hall
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Alison Krauss is really more of a bluegrass/country singer. Her album with Robert Plant is very good, but Krauss definitely has a country twang to her voice. While I like the songs the Carpenters did, they are very over-produced, even for the seventies. Of the three, Ronstadt definitely has the best...

On this, my 21-st wedding anniversary, while my wife is away on business...in Japan, I’d like to play a few songs I put on the “mix-tape” I made my for my bride-to-be. Naturally a great place to start. Rockpile--I Knew The Bride (When She Used to Rock ‘n Roll) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

One of the best concerts I ever saw was Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive Tour. As no one has posted Joe's video, I thought I'd grab the original from ol' Cab Calloway. After all, that's what Joe wanted us to do...

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I would bump Cinderella and put in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Maybe even add The Iron Giant in there somewhere. I mean, I love Disney, but, with the exception of Shrek (and you are right, Bryce, it should be Shrek 2), it's a virtual Disney...(um)...land.

Maybe not rare, maybe not even punk, but good nevertheless: Anti-Nowhere League/Streets of London [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3HBwp3cps[/youtube] The Slits/Typical Girls [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGblps64M[/youtube] Ian Dury and the Bockheads/There Ain’t Half Been Some ...