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2015: A Year in Film

14 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by marina72 in Film, Television

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A Most Violent Year, A Year in Films and TV, Amy, Amy Winehouse, By the Sea, Carol, Catch Me Daddy, Doctor Zhivago, Dulcima, Girlfriends, Inherent Vice, Low Down, Macbeth, Mad Men, Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Hateful Eight, The Keeping Room, The Misfits, The Witch, This is England, Wanda, You Made Me Love You

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After his great performances in W.E., Inside Llewyn Davis and The Two Faces of January, Oscar Isaac is fast becoming my favourite contemporary actor. He has gone from strength to strength in 2015, with big and small-screen gems set in 1980s New York: A Most Violent Year, about an ambitious businessman trying to stay on the right side of the law; and Show Me a Hero, an HBO mini-series telling the true story of Nick Wasicsko, who became mayor of Yonkers during a bitterly divisive public housing crisis. Continue reading →

Born on This Day: Fay Bainter 1893-1968

07 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre

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David Belasco, Fay Bainter, Jealousy, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Reginald Venable, Ted Coy

1125767647WhiteFay.Bainter.JealousyFay Okell Bainter was born in Los Angeles on December 7, 1893. Encouraged by her mother, Fay first went on the stage aged six, and joined Oliver Morosco’s travelling stock company before making her Broadway debut at seventeen. Continue reading →

‘Life Revealed’ a Reading Highlight of 2015

26 Thursday Nov 2015

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Jeanne Eagels, Non-Fiction, Theatre

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Best Film Books of 2015, Huffington Post, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Thomas Gladysz

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Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed – the first biography of the legendary actress to be published in 85 years, which tells ‘the tragic story of the beautiful, Academy Award-nominated film and Broadway star’ – has been named among the Best Film Books of 2015 by historian Thomas Gladysz, in his annual round-up for the Huffington Post.

Born On This Day: Clifton Webb 1889-1966

19 Thursday Nov 2015

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre

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Clifton Webb, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Mabelle Webb, Mr Belvedere Goes to College, Ted Coy, The National Red Cross Pageant

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Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck was born in Indiana on November 19, 1889. His father, Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, a ticket clerk, had married Mabel A. Parmelee, daughter of a railroad conductor, earlier that year. They separated in 1891, and ‘little Webb’ was raised by his mother. Continue reading →

Born on This Day: Jean de Limur 1887-1976

13 Friday Nov 2015

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels

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Jealousy, Jean de Limur, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Monta Bell, Paramount, The Letter

Jean de Limur (centre) with Charlie Chaplin (right), 1923

Jean de Limur (centre) with Charlie Chaplin (right), 1923

Jean Chamur Limur was born on November 13, 1887, in Vouhé, a town in Southern France. He began his film career as an actor in Hollywood, under the name Jean de Limur. Continue reading →

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