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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:14:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://moviemorlocks.com http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/19/making-of-is-hard-to-do/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/19/making-of-is-hard-to-do/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:30:28 +0000 davidkalat http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=32458 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/19/making-of-is-hard-to-do/feed/ 11 davidkalat blog001 blog002 blogenlarged GanjaComplete blog003 IMG_0092 blog005 g Star_Wars Home made remake of STAR WARS, from Raleigh, NC circa 1978 http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/01/16/crib-notes-part-2-of-2/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/01/16/crib-notes-part-2-of-2/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:59:06 +0000 keelsetter http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=31346 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/01/16/crib-notes-part-2-of-2/feed/ 6 keelsetter Brazil (European Poster) Mar 9 - 11 March 30 - April 3 April 6 - 10 April 13 - 17 crib6 http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:33:44 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=29512 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/feed/ 8 moirafinnie Ann-Harding-Cinema's Gallant Lady by Scott O'Brien Ann Harding with her hair worn in a characteristic style Ann Harding in the 1920s Ann Harding casually dressed off camera Ann Harding onstage in The Trial of Mary Dugan Ann Harding and Harry Bannister A postcard from Hollywood in the '30s of Ann Harding's home Ann Harding with her husband Harry Bannister and daughter Jane in the 1930s Peter Ibbetson (1935) with Ann Harding and Gary Cooper Ann Harding and Gary Cooper on location near Big Bear Lake during Peter Ibbetson (1935) Gary Cooper, Henry Hathaway and Ann Harding on the set of Peter Ibbetson (1935) When Ladies Meet (1933) with Ann Harding, Myrna Loy and Alice Brady Leslie Howard and Ann Harding in The Animal Kingdom (1932) Conrad Nagel and John Halliday Paris Bound (1929) with Ann Harding and Fredric March was directed by Edward H. Griffith Gallant Lady (1935) with Ann Harding and Clive Brook Ann Harding and Herbert Marshall mark the end of the pre-code period in The Flame Within (1935) Gene Fowler and friend at work Ann Harding with her husband Harry Bannister building their home Ann Harding as an aloof but well-dressed star Ann Harding with John Boles in The Life of Vergie Winters Ann Harding in Her Private Affair (1929) Union activists James Dunn, Lucile Gleason, Ann Harding, Boris Karloff and James Cagney discuss SAG business A cringeworthy advertisement allegedly emphasizing how Ann Harding's domestic skills ensure Harry Bannister's happiness at home Ann Harding with second husband, conductor Werner Jannsen Ann Harding with Reginald Denny in Eyes in the Night (1942) Ann Harding in The North Star Ann Harding in The Magnificent Yankee with Louis Calhern as Supreme Court Justic Oliver Wendell Holmes Ann’s daughter Jane, and her nieces Dorothy and Barbara in 1931 shivering next to the pool Ann Harding in the early years of her career http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/18/the-silent-robin-a-tonic-for-the-soul/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/18/the-silent-robin-a-tonic-for-the-soul/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:10:17 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=16150 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/18/the-silent-robin-a-tonic-for-the-soul/feed/ 3 moirafinnie Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood (image courtesy of George Eastman House) Fairbanks boots from "Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood" (image courtesy of the New York Times) A shot of the castle walls enhanced by glass painting, but giving some sense of the massiveness of the sets in this version of Robin Hood A huge interior in Robin Hood The opening joust beginning the film, led by King Richard, played by a likable Wallace Beery One of the N. C. Wyeth illustrations that has influenced generations of Robin Hood interpretations on film, beginning with Fairbanks contribution The slide covered with a drape that allowed Fairbanks to elude his captors on the massive interior set. A shy Earl of Huntingdon (Douglas Fairbanks) is awarded his laurel for winning the joust Robin endures a romantic moment with Maid Marian tracing his image on the wall prior to his departure for the Crusades A young Alan Hale, Sr. as Little John Wallace Beery as a slightly buffoonish King Richard The raucous Robin emerges in the second half of the film http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/01/these-movies-brought-to-you-by-the-number-11/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/01/these-movies-brought-to-you-by-the-number-11/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:54:40 +0000 keelsetter http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=15614 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/11/01/these-movies-brought-to-you-by-the-number-11/feed/ 11 keelsetter Books Sudden Fear The Bride of Frankenstein I Love Trouble Teen-Age Jailbait Downhill Bordertown Great Expectations The Cat and the Canary Four Kinds of Love and Blood and Black Lace Santa Sangre Sorority House Massacre II http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/07/27/what-i-didnt-know-about-hollywood/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/07/27/what-i-didnt-know-about-hollywood/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:25:08 +0000 Susan Doll http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=12596 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/07/27/what-i-didnt-know-about-hollywood/feed/ 9 suzidoll hollywoodland1 Hollywood2 Hollywood5 hollywood11 hollywood4 hollywood13 hollywood12 hollywood10 http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/07/01/the-last-swashbuckler-by-peter-bosch/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/07/01/the-last-swashbuckler-by-peter-bosch/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:00:56 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=11668 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/07/01/the-last-swashbuckler-by-peter-bosch/feed/ 17 moirafinnie Stewart Granger in Prisoner of Zenda (1952), King Solomon's Mines (1950), and with Eleanor Parker in Scaramouche (1952) An older, but jolly Stewart Granger around the time that Peter met him for this interview Hedda Hopper with an understandably wary Jimmy Stewart Stewart Granger on the set of "The Last Hunt" with one of his bête noires, director Richard Brooks. Both men would marry talented and beautiful Jean Simmons. As a young actor around the time of A Man in Grey (1943) As Paganini in The Magic Bow Fighting with John Laurie in Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 With Jean Simmons out in Hollywood during their marriage The classic long duel with Mel Ferrer in Scaramouche (1952) As the lookalike to a king in the remake of "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1952) Stewart Granger with Simmons on their ranch North to Alaska with John Wayne Granger in Tangiers in the late '50s at the beginning of his peripatetic career phase Granger in the the later phase of his career Stewart Granger in his prime Stewart Granger with Deborah Kerr in Prisoner of Zenda (1952), Bhowani Junction (1956) and Moonfleet (1955) http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/06/10/learning-to-read-movie/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/06/10/learning-to-read-movie/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:20:09 +0000 moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=11014 ]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/06/10/learning-to-read-movie/feed/ 9 moirafinnie stop in for popcorn to go agee on film The Parade's Gone By by Kevin Brownlow John Ford by Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington Hitchcock and Truffaut A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut People Will Talk by John Kobal Backstory by Patrick McGilligan How to Read a Film by James Monaco The Moviegoer by Walker Percy