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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:18:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a35881d17fa8a3e64963a4acaf224853?s=96&d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://moviemorlocks.com http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/07/12/toby-peters-detective-to-the-stars/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/07/12/toby-peters-detective-to-the-stars/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:01:32 +0000 suzidoll http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=24703 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/07/12/toby-peters-detective-to-the-stars/feed/ 12 suzidoll tobybeer tobybullet tobycatchspy tobywrong tobybundyboys tobyfieldspool http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/07/05/jim-thompson-shows-us-the-killer-inside-us/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/07/05/jim-thompson-shows-us-the-killer-inside-us/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:23:59 +0000 suzidoll http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=24449 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/07/05/jim-thompson-shows-us-the-killer-inside-us/feed/ 12 suzidoll thompsonportrait thompsonposter thompsonkillermirror thompsonkiller1 thompsongetaway2 thompsongetaway thompsonkiller75 thompsonkilloff http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/09/so-big-1953-on-screen/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/09/so-big-1953-on-screen/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:48:37 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=23438 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/09/so-big-1953-on-screen/feed/ 5 moirafinnie More... Edna Ferber standing in a doorway in the late 1930s So Big poster for the 1924 Colleen Moore version of Edna Ferber's tale (from the Margaret Herrick Library at AMPAS) Barbara Stanwyck in So Big (1932) Jane Wyman in So Big (1953) Jane Wyman with toddler Jon Provost as little Dirk in So Big (1953). Provost would later play Lassie's owner on the tv series of the same name Steve Forrest, Jane Wyman, Walter Coy and Nancy Olson in So Big (1953) More... Karen Swenson as Maartje Pool helping Jane Wyman's character prepare for her wedding Hayden and Wyman in So Big (1953) Wyman sharing a scene with Richard Beymer in So Big (1953) Selina (Jane Wyman) enjoying her freedom as a widow with her son Dirk (Tommy Rettig) Wyman in So Big (1953) One of the clinches that Warner Brothers emphasized in marketing So Big (1953) Edna Ferber writing away in her library http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/02/summer-time-and-the-movie-is-silly/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/02/summer-time-and-the-movie-is-silly/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:04:59 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=23186 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/06/02/summer-time-and-the-movie-is-silly/feed/ 11 moirafinnie Rome Adventure Poster Suzanne Pleshette's independence day from Briarcroft College Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue around the time of Rome Adventure (1962) Pleshette's wakeful Prudence struggles a bit with her attraction to Donahue Al Hirt shows off his girl friend and her little friend to Suzanne Pleshette & Troy Donahue. I love Donahue's shocked expression. Constance Ford as the bookshop owner Suzanne Pleshette Suzanne Pleshette instructing Hitch g ROME ADVENTURE (1962) http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/15/the-art-of-bollywood/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/15/the-art-of-bollywood/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:43:35 +0000 Kimberly Lindbergs http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=21480 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/04/15/the-art-of-bollywood/feed/ 3 cinebeats bollywoodb1 bollywoodp3 bollywood9 bollywoodp5 bollywoodp6 bollywoodp2 bollywood8 http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/31/helen-walker-a-well-kept-secret-part-ii-2/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/31/helen-walker-a-well-kept-secret-part-ii-2/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:36:43 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=20749 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/31/helen-walker-a-well-kept-secret-part-ii-2/feed/ 9 moirafinnie Helen Walker A poster from People Are Funny (1945), the kind of movie that Helen Walker wanted no part of as her career progressed. The Two Faces of Lilith: Helen Walker as the glamorous nightclubber, and the masculine "doctor" Edmund Goulding Helen Walker's Lilith triumphing over Tryone Power's Stan Carlisle in Nightmare Alley (1947). A conventional role as Jimmy Stewart's smart but loving wife in Call Northside 777 my_dear_secretary Impact (1949) The two Faces of Irene in Impact (1949), as played by Helen Walker Wilton Graff and Helen Walker await director Mickey Rooney's direction in My True Story (1951) Helen Walker with Cornel Wilde in The Big Combo (1955) Helen Walker in her prime. g Nightmare Alley (1946) http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/04/death-by-oscar/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/04/death-by-oscar/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:43:54 +0000 Kimberly Lindbergs http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19838 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/04/death-by-oscar/feed/ 11 cinebeats acarrbook acp1 acp2 http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/03/the-macomber-affair-1947-ernie-and-the-movies/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/03/the-macomber-affair-1947-ernie-and-the-movies/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:28:57 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19806 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/03/the-macomber-affair-1947-ernie-and-the-movies/feed/ 3 moirafinnie the macomber affair (1947) Hemingway with Gary Cooper (top left), Ingrid Bergman (top right), Spencer Tracy (bottom left), and Ava Gardner (bottom right, with Mary Hemingway strategically placed between her and Hemingway). Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston in The Macomber Affair (1947) Gregory Peck as Wilson, the self-contained hunter of The Macomber Affair Robert Preston as Francis Macomber Joan Bennett as Mrs. Macomber Robert Preston, Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck in The Macomber Affair (1947) Alexander Korda (sipping tea) and Zoltan Korda in 1948 Ernest Hemingway, kicking a can down an Idaho highway in 1959, far away from Hollywood. (photo by John Bryson) http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/10/captured-1933-by-the-past/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/10/captured-1933-by-the-past/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:31:29 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19047 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/10/captured-1933-by-the-past/feed/ 7 moirafinnie Captured with Leslie Howard as an action hero...or gallant loser Sir Philip Gibbs cigarette card image (courtesy of the New York Public Library Archives) Roy Del Ruth A poster for Captured (1933) that emphasizes the peripheral love story of this grim little POW drama The shower scene in Captured! (1933), which Warner Brothers thought should be enshrined in a lobby card Douglas Fairbanks Jr. condemning himself for his disloyalty to his friend in Captured! leslie-howard-struggling-to-control-his-jealousy Captured (1933) Paul Lukas salutes a fallen comrade Leslie Howard and Margaret Lindsay in one of the romantic flashbacks that hampers Captured! (1933) http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/03/moonrise-1948-frank-borzage-goes-dark/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/03/moonrise-1948-frank-borzage-goes-dark/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:06:10 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=18795 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/03/moonrise-1948-frank-borzage-goes-dark/feed/ 6 moirafinnie moonrise2 The title in Moonrise The rippling fog in the opening sequence of Moonrise The opening sequence in Moonrise A trip to the gallows in the opening sequence of Moonrise The baby in the opening sequence of Moonrise Shadowed by fate Shadowed by fate Clark reconciling with Daisy Belle just as the law comes for him Harry Morgan as Billy Scripture, Danny Hawkins' shadow Dane Clark and Gail Russell in Moonrise (1948) In rhe mansion, creating a different world out of the ruins of the old Allyn Joslyn as the philosophical sheriff in Moonrise (1948) Rex Ingram as Mose in Moonrise (1948) Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) at peace with himself at his father's grave in Moonrise (1948) The fly between Danny Hawkins and the Sheriff during an inquiry in Moonrise (1948) The scene where Danny briefly and awkwardly joins the townspeople waiting for the train to come in