Photo of the Day: Ninotchka and friends

Happy Monday Morning from Ninotchka and friends!

THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942) is top notch film noir

Starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird, Cregar and Alan Ladd. Directed by Frank Tuttle. Running time: 80 minutes. Release date: May 13, 1942

Excellent film noir classic about a hitman named Raven (Ladd's break-through film) who after taking out a blackmailer and his girlfriend in San Francisco, realizes he has been set up by his anonymous employer. Now on the run from the police, Raven wants to find out why he was duped and score a little payback. The middle man named Gates (terrific performance by Cregar) who works for the anonymous employer informs police that Raven stole money from the company Gates works, Nitro Chemical. Detective Crane (a young Robert Preston, miles away from Professor Harold Hill of The Music Man) is assigned the case.

Crane's girlfriend, nightclub singer/magician Ellen (a sultry Veronica Lake) winds up meeting Raven on board a train headed to Los Angeles by accident. Raven ends up taking Ellen hostage. He finds out that Ellen also knows Gates, as Gates owns the nightclub where she works. So now Raven starts to play detective to find out what's going on.

With the police in hot pursuit, the pair are trapped at the train yards where Raven shares his hard upbringing that led him to his life as a hitman. She begins to sympathize with him. And as a final gesture, takes his coat and hat to pretend to be him to confuse the police while Raven escapes. He heads to Nitro Chemical to take down the man who set him up.

Man, this is one awesome movie. A perfectly tuned film noir film that just grabs you from the opening credits and doesn't let go. Alan Ladd is terrific as Raven, who is more than just your average gun for hire. His back story explains quite a bit about the life he has led. This is a true star making performance. His first pairing with Lake is really good as their had wonderful chemistry. Lake plies her usual trademark sultry good looks and smoky voice to good effect. And in the quieter moments with Ladd, is quite a revelation. Preston is all gung ho as the detective and Cregar makes a good slimy, sniveling middleman who says he is just following orders. No hard feelings Mr. Raven. Right?..Heck no. You're going down too big man.

This Gun For Hire is excellent entertainment.

Photo of the Day: Cary and Grace

Here are two of my favorite stars, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Photo of the Day: Claire Trevor and Hi to Dawn!

Dawn is the first friend I met here when I began blogging and she graciously invited me to post on her several of her blogs. So while she is taking care of her medical problems, of which I know she will overcome, and be back here shortly, I told her I would post as much as I could. Here is a pic of Claire Trevor that is simple but very effective. You know I have never seen Dawn before but for some reason I always imagined her as Claire. Don't know exactly why, but Claire was a terrific actress and one of my favorites. So Happy Saturday to everyone and I will be on here from time to time with pics and reviews.

Claire and me sending some love your way Dawn!

A Special Welcome to Noir and Chick Flicks New Friends!!

I want to Welcome Noir and Chick Flicks new friends that have just found us. I hope that you guys can hang around until I'm past my health problem..

I just received my results.

It is time for me to "fight like a girl"!! I have breast cancer. I go to see the surgeon April 30th. Hopefully, I will be back to blogging in a month or two..

Pawsome Pets: Jean Harlow

This is a cute little pic of Jean and her little friend. Love ya Dawn! Hope everything turns out ok!

A little medical break.

Hey fellow bloggers.. I have a medical problem that needs to be taken care of. I have to go in for a biopsy sometime this week. Hopefully, it will come back negative. I do have to admit I'm a little scared..
Hopefully, I will be back to blogging soon..

Love Is Better Than Ever(1952).

Love Is Better Than Ever(1952). A romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen. Cast: Larry Parks and Elizabeth Taylor.

The story begins when Broadway agent Jud Parker, who travels to New Haven, to represent the dancing team, The Dean Brothers. While in New Haven Jud meets, Anastasia Macaboy and her mother, who own a dancing school, come to inquire about buying one of the Deans's brothers dance routines.

Later, Staci travels alone to New York, to attend a dance instructors conference. Staci, also wants to keep a close eye on Mrs. Levoy and her daughter, Pattie Marie, who are planning to start a competing dancing school of their own.

When, Staci runs into Jud in the elevator of the Astor, he invites her to lunch, and she then agrees to miss the convention to watch her first baseball game.

After a wonderful dinner at 21 and a night of dancing, Staci spends the rest of the week spending time with Jud, instead of attending the convention.  During Staci's last night in New York, she confesses to Jud that she is in love with him and tries to convince him to keep seeing her. Things seem to be going along well until.. her mother Mrs. Macaboy, is waiting in Staci's room and sends Jud on his way.

Back home in New Haven, Staci cannot stop thinking about Jud and her father tells her that she needs to find his weakness, to win him over.

Later, Jud's reads in the New Haven newspaper that he is engaged to Staci. Wanting to put a stop to the story, Jud travels to New Haven to confront her, along with his friend, Hamlet, who pretends to be his lawyer. Staci, admits she only wanted to stop the gossip being spread about her by the Levoys by announcing her engagement. She then would tell people that she broke the engagement because Jud did not want her to continue working. Having been charmed by Staci, he promises to help with the plan.

That evening, while Staci massages his shoulders, they start to kiss, Jud says that she is trying to trap him and spoils the mood. Staci, angrily calls him a "flesh peddler," and he walks out.

After a New York columnist makes claims that the broken engagement was faked,  many of the parents take their children out of her dance school.

Not knowing what to do to save her school, Staci goes to see Jud at Smittie's bar, where he has been drinking alone. Jud,  tells her that he is now "stuck" on her and wants to get "unstuck". Staci, then wants to make a bet.. that if Giants, lose the game, he will come with her to the school's recital and stage their breakup fight.. if the Giants win, she will never see him again. They watch the game on television, and the Giants win in the ninth inning. Staci then quietly goes home. On the day of the recital, will Jud shows up to help Staci save her dance school?

I'm writing this review as I'm watching it. In this film Elizabeth Taylor, is young, talented, funny and was better than I thought it would be. I hope that Turner Classic Movies to show it once in a while. If you get a chance to watch it, you will not be disappointed.

Ann Doran, performed in hundreds of silent films under assumed names to keep her father's family from finding out about her work.

Rarely in a featured role (with the exceptions of Jean Andrews in Rio Grande (1938) and James Dean's dominating mother in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

Doran performed in more than 500 films and 1,000 episodes of television shows, including the American Civil War drama Gray Ghost.

By 1938 she was under contract to Columbia Pictures, where the company policy was to use the members of its stock company as often as possible.

Doran appears in Columbia's serials (such as The Spider's Web and Flying G-Men), short subjects (including those of The Three Stooges, Charley Chase, Andy Clyde, and Harry Langdon), B features (including the Blondie, Five Little Peppers, and Ellery Queen series), and major feature films.

She became a favorite of Columbia director Frank Capra and appears in many of his productions. Most of these appearances were supporting roles, although she did play leads in Columbia's Charley Chase comedies of 1938-40.

When Columbia launched the boy-and-his-dog Rusty series in 1945, Doran was cast and prominently featured. Although the actor playing the boy's father changed several times, Doran continued constant as the boy's mother.

Her steady, sensible maternal roles led to her being cast as James Dean's mother in Rebel Without a Cause.

Doran also guest starred on many television programs, including three appearances in the role of Bonnie Landis in the CBS legal drama The Public Defender, starring with fellow Texan Reed Hadley.

She performed in the western My Friend Flicka, the story of a boy and his horse on a Wyoming ranch.

She also guest-starred in Ray Milland's sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley.

In 1960, she was cast as Martha Brown, the mother of horse rider Velvet Brown (played by Lori Martin) in the family drama National Velvet.

She also made one appearance on McHale's Navy as Mrs. Martha "Pumpkin" Binghampton, wife of Captain Binghampton (Joe Flynn).

Three years later, she appeared in the 1965-66 season of the 34-episode western series, The Legend of Jesse James as Zerelda James Samuel, the mother of Jesse and Frank James.

This week on N and CF.

ON TCM MARCH 15TH: WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD (1932). Please click picture on side bar for movie review.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: WILLIAM HOLDEN. (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981).  Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the most popular and well known movie stars of all time, Holden was one of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s. Please click picture on side bar to view past movie reviews.

ON TCM MARCH 17TH: WILLIAM HOLDEN MOVIES: Invisible Stripes(1939), Rachel and the Stranger(1948), Born Yesterday(1950) and The Moon Is Blue(1953).

 ON TCM MARCH 18TH. 8 MOVIES SPOTLIGHTING BASEBALL.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: JANE MANSFIELD. (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) Mansfield's film career was short-lived, she had several box office successes and won the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe, and a Golden Laurel. In 1955, she enjoyed a successful Broadway run acting in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and later the film of the same name in 1957. She is remembered for both this film and a starring role in the comedy film The Girl Can't Help It (1956), which was also produced by 20th Century Fox. Of her rare on-screen dramatic roles, her performance in The Wayward Bus (1957) is regarded as the best. She also sang for studio recordings including the album Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me and the singles Suey and As The Clouds Drift By done together with rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Mansfield's notable television work included The Red Skelton Show (1959–1963) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1957). Please click picture on side bar to view past movie reviews.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: HAROLD LLOYD. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era. Please click picture on side bar to view past reviews. First Video of three.

ON TCM MARCH 21ST: NOTHING SACRED(1937). The film stars Carole Lombard and Fredric March, with a supporting cast including Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Margaret Hamilton, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Fay and Max Rosenbloom.

 

This week article is from:
Dear Old Hollywood blogspot: Gun Crazy(1950) film locations.

ROBBY CRESS SAYS" Those attending the 2012 TCM Film Festival this coming weekend will have to make a difficult choice in which film to see during the early evening screenings on Saturday. The obvious choice is the 60th Anniversary World Premiere Restoration of Singin' in the Rain which will be shown in the historic Grauman's Chinese Theater and will include discussions with Debbie Reynolds and Patricia Kelly. I mean, what an opportunity to see one of cinema's most noteworthy musicals in such a spectacular environment with one of the original cast members in attendance! But, at around the same time another great screening will be taking place down the street at the Egyptian Theatre. Gun Crazy may not be as iconic as Singin' in the Rain, but it is a landmark film noir worth adding to the "must see" list. The cinematography in Gun Crazy is marvelous and should look stunning on the large Egyptian Theater screen. And like the Singin in the Rain screening, Gun Crazy will also feature a discussion with one of the stars: Peggy Cummins." Please click on link to read more..

East Side, West Side (1949).

East Side, West Side(1949). Melodramatic/crime film. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner in one of her earliest roles, James Mason and Van Heflin. Based on a novel by Marcia Davenport and a screenplay by Isobel Lennart, the film was directed by Mervyn Leroy.

Late one night, Jessie Bourne, is home alone  while, her philandering husband Brandon, is out drinking at the Del Rio night club, with model Rosa Senta.

 

Rosa, later asks Brandon, why he cheats on his wife. Brandon says, "just because a man has one perfect rose at home, doesn't mean he can't enjoy the flowers of the field."

It is not long before Brandon's, former mistress Isabel Lorrison, just back from Paris, shows up forcing Rosa to leave. Isabel, is hoping to pick up where they left off, but Brandon, is ready to move on, telling her that.. "he is now faithful to his wife".

Later, as Brandon is leaving the club, Alec Dawning, who knows Brandon's reputation, knocks him unconscious. Rosa, takes Brandon to her home, where he spends the night.

When Brandon, arrives home he tells Jessie that he was attacked by a bum, which she does not believe.

Soon after, Helen Lee reminds Jessie about her party for ex-police officer Mark Dwyer, whose book Helen's husband Owen is trying to get syndicated in his newspaper. Jessie, then confides to Helen, that she is afraid of what will happen to her marriage now that Isabel is back in town.

After, seeing a picture newspaper picture of Rosa and her husband, Jessie finds Rosa and speaks with her about the picture. Rosa, explains what really happened and the two become fast friends. Jessie, offers to take Rosa to the airport to pick up her boyfriend.

By coincidence, Rosa's sweetheart is th ex-police officer Mark Dwyer, who seems more interested in Jessie.

On the day of Helen's party, Isabel, manages to keep Brandon, from attending the party. Jessie goes to the party alone and is taken home by Mark, who stays with her until Brandon returns home.

The next day, Isabel tells Jessie that she is going to steal husband from her.

Later, Mark while giving Jessie, a tour of his West Side neighborhood, he confesses his love for her. When Jessie returns home, she finds out that Isabel has been murdered.

She and Mark, rush over to Isabel's apartment, where police Lt. Jacobi is interrogating Brandon. Mark, finds a clue that leads him to the Del Rio club, where he finds Isabel's killer, who turns out to be..

Both Stanwyck and Gardner are well matched in this film. Mason, is such a creep that you, hope that everyone, will kick him to the curb by the end of the movie. Loved, the New York scenes and Costumes, were beautiful. I would watch this film again..

Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985), studied acting at the Minneapolis School of Dramatic Arts before joining the John Keller Shakespeare Company.

She later toured North America in productions of Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth.

Her younger sister Hester Sondergaard was also an actress.

Sondergaard made her first film appearance in, Anthony Adverse (1936) as "Faith Paleologue" and became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

Her career as an actress flourished during the 1930's, and included a role opposite Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937).

During pre-production of MGM's classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), an early idea was to have the Wicked Witch of the West portrayed as a glamorous villainess in a black sequined costume, inspired by the Wicked Queen in, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Sondergaard was originally cast as the witch in "Oz" and was photographed for two wardrobe test. One was as a glamorous wicked witch, and another as a conventionally ugly wicked witch. After the decision was made to have an ugly wicked witch, Sondergaard, believed  it could damage her career, withdrew from the role, and it went to character actress, Margaret Hamilton. Sondergaard was, later cast as the sultry Tylette (a magically humanized, but devious, cat) in 1940's The Blue Bird.

In 1940, she played the role of the exotic and sinister wife in, The Letter, with Bette Davis.

She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the King's principal wife in, Anna and the King of Siam(1946).

Sondergaard was first married in 1922 to actor Neill O'Malley; they divorced in 1930.

On 15 May 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she married her second husband, Herbert Biberman, a theater director then associated with the Theatre Guild Acting Company; he became a film director and died in 1971. They had two children, Daniel Hans Biberman and Mrs. Joan Campos.

Sondergaard's career was damaged during the Red Scare of the early 1950's, when her husband was accused of being a communist and named as one of the Hollywood Ten.

(In the 2000 movie One of the Hollywood Ten, Sondergaard was portrayed by actress Greta Scacchi while Jeff Goldblum was cast as Biberman.) She supported her husband during the production of Salt of the Earth (1954).

One of the Hollywood Ten (2000) chronicled Sondergaard's relationship with Biberman and her role in the making of, Salt of the Earth.

The Bibermans sold their home in Hollywood shortly after they completed Salt of the Earth and moved to New York, where Sondergaard was able to work in theatre.

On Borrowed Time(1939).

On Borrowed Time(1939). The film is based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Barrymore plays Julian Northrup, a wheelchair user (Barrymore had broken his hip twice and was now using a wheelchair, though he continued to act), who, with his wife Nellie, played by Bondi, are raising their orphaned grandson, Pud.


The story begins when, Death, who comes in the form of Mr. Brink, hitches a ride with Dr. James Northrup and his wife, causing a tragic car accident. They leave behind a young son Pud in the care of his grandparents, Julian Northrup and Nellie. Pud's aunt, Demetria Riffle, an old maid, pretends to care about the boy, but really only wants his inheritance. Gramps, knows exactly what she is up to.

When Mr. Brink comes for Gramps, he tricks him into the apple tree. Mr. Brink is not able to come down from the tree, because only Gramps has the power to free him. After their pet cocker spaniel dies after touching the tree, Gramps has a fence built round the tree to protect others.

Dr. Evans, soon believes that Death is trapped up in the apple tree, when several of his cases of certain death do not happen. Evans tries to disprove Gramps's story, but nothing dies, except a mouse that touches the apple tree. Evans begs Gramps to let Brink down. Saying that a world without death would cause people with incurable diseases, to suffer. Gramps, thinks about his own old age, but still cannot let Brink out of the apple tree.

The next day, Evans comes with papers to commit Gramps and turn Pud over to Demetria, convincing Gramps to let Brink out of the tree. After he breaks the news to Pud about his decision to go with Brink, Pud cries that saying he wants to go with Mr. Brink, too. Heartbroken, when Gramps tells him he can't come, Pud runs away. Gramps, pretends that Mr. Brink has said that Demetria and the sheriff are due to die soon. Marcia Giles, Gramps's housekeeper, also pretends that she heard it too, frightening Demetria and the sheriff into leaving. While Marcia and Gramps are looking for Pud. Mr. Brink calls him a "baby calf." Pud trying to climb the tree falls to the ground and is paralyzed. Will Gramps now call Mr. Brink from the tree?

This is a wonderful, magical, movie, with some very heartbreaking scenes. A movie you will not soon forget. One of my favorite Lionel Barrymore performances.

 

Beulah Bondi (May 3, 1889 – January 11, 1981). She made her Broadway debut in Kenneth S. Webb's "One of the Family" at the 49th Street Theatre on December 21, 1925.

She next performed in, Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" in 1926. It was Bondi's performance in Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Street Scene," which opened at the Playhouse Theatre on January 10, 1929, that brought Bondi to the movies at the age of 43.

Her debut movie role was as "Emma Jones" in Elmer Rice's Street Scene (1931), which starred Sylvia Sidney, and in which Bondi reprised her stage role, followed by "Mrs. Davidson" in Rain (1932), which starred Joan Crawford and Walter Huston.

She was one of the first five women to be nominated for an Academy Award in the newly-created category of "Best Supporting Actress" for her work in The Gorgeous Hussy, although she lost the award to Gale Sondergaard.

Two years later, she was nominated again for Of Human Hearts, and lost again, but her reputation as a character actress kept her working. She would most often be seen in the role of the mother of the star of the film for the rest of her career, with the exception of Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) as the abandoned Depression-era 'Ma' Cooper.

She often played mature roles in her early film career even though she was only in her early 40's. Bondi played James Stewart’s mother in four films: It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Human Hearts and Vivacious Lady.

Ann Harding

Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981). In 1929, she made her film debut in Paris Bound, with Fredric March. A story about Jim Hutton and Mary Archer, who are happy to remain faithful to each other in spirit only.

They are married with the bride believing that each should be allowed to do do what they want to do. Among the wedding guests is the young composer Richard Parrish, who is also in love with the bride, and Noel Farley, who is in love with Jim.

After they have their first child, Jim travels to Europe on a business trip, Mary declines to accompany him. Noel, who owns a villa at Antibes, lures Jim into a rendezvous. Menawhile, Mary has an affair with Richard. Learning of Jim's rendezvous, she considers a Paris divorce so as to marry Richard. When Jim unexpectedly returns, he tells Mary of his affair with a French woman. Mary is devastated, for she would never believe that her husband would actually sleep with another woman. In the end their mutual love is confirmed, and they decide to adopt traditional marriage morals and remain monogamous.

Fun Facts:

In 1931, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for, Holiday.

Harding, was RKO studio's 'answer' to MGM's superstar Norma Shearer.

Harding's second film was, Her Private Affair.

During this period, she was considered to be one of cinema's most beautiful women, with her long waist-length blonde hair as one of her most noted attributes.

Her films during her peak include: The Animal Kingdom, Peter Ibbetson, When Ladies Meet, The Flame Within, and Biography of a Bachelor Girl.

Harding, became stereotyped as the innocent, self-sacrificing young woman. She eventually quit making movies when she married the conductor, Werner Janssen in 1937. She later returned in 1942 to make the film, Eyes in the Night and to take secondary roles in other movies. In 1956, she again starred with Fredric March, this time in, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

This Week on N and CF.

Happy Birthday: Mary Pickford.(April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979). She had intended to have all of her films destroyed after her death, fearing that no one would care about them. She was convinced not to do this. Please click picture on side bar to learn more.

Video: Mary Pickford Documentary (1 of 8).

On TCM April 9 th: Together Again(1944). Irene Dunne is Anne Crandal ,a mayor of a small town. They call her Lady Mayor. She took over the office after the death of her husband who was the original mayor. When the statue of her husband is hit by lightening. Her stepdaughter demands the statue be rebuilt. Anne had to go NYC to interview a new sculptor.

On TCM April 10th: Without Love (1945). A play by Philip Barry, later made into a romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The film was directed by Harold S. Bucquet from a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart based on the Barry play.

On TCM April 11th: Randolph Scott Day. A film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott performed in many genres: dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals ( in non-singing and non-dancing roles), adventure tales, war films, and even a few horror and fantasy films. Although, his best known image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle Western hero. Out of his more than 100 film performances more than 60 were in Westerns.

Happy Birthday: Ann Miller. (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was a singer, dancer and actress. Please click picture on side bar to learn more. Ann Miller interview..

On TCM April 12: Spencer Tracy Movie Tribute. Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike and Father's Little Dividend. Video: full movie.

TCM April 13th: Love Is Better Than Ever(1952). A romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen, starring Larry Parks and Elizabeth Taylor. The plot concerns a small-town girl who falls in love with a big-city talent agent.

Happy Birthday: Howard Keel!(April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004), was a actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s.

Happy Birthday: Julie Christie! Christie made her professional debut on stage in 1957, and her first screen roles were on British television. Her big break came in the 1961 BBC serial A for Andromeda. In 1962, Christie appeared in feature films with prominent roles in a pair of romantic comedies for Ealing Studios: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady. Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous Billy Liar (1963) played by Tom Courtenay. The director, John Schlesinger, cast Christie only after another actress dropped out of the film. Her work in the film earned her a BAFTA Award nomination. Please click picture on side bar to learn more.

On TCM April 14th: A Night To Remember(1958). A Night to Remember is a 1958 docudrama film adaptation of Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), recounting the final night of the RMS Titanic. It was adapted by Eric Ambler, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and filmed in the United Kingdom. The production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty, used blueprints of the ship to accurately create the sets, while Titanic fourth officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge both worked as technical advisors on the film.

This week I'm spotlighting two Articles of the week. The first one is from:  Eves Reel Life Blogspot: Revisiting Youthquake. Eve says," In 1963, Diana Vreeland, long-time editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, coined the word “youthquake” to define a cultural phenomenon dominated by the young that was a mixture of music, fashion and political disaffection. Please click on the link to read more..

Classicfilmboy: My Week As A Hippie. Classicfilmboy, shares with us his thoughts on the musical "Hair". He was prepared for the free-flowing storytelling, but not how much of a departure it is from traditional musicals. After the first act,  he was unsure how he felt. After the second act and a moving ending,  he did like the show overall and apreciated the fact that this production was of superior quality. Please click on link to read more...