Starlet Showcase: January 2010

1/31/10

Reading is Just Sexy

Thanks to Jenn for the idea. (She doesn't sell them.)
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I just finished reading The Good Rat by Jimmy Breslin, and I'm about done with Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe, both of which are excellent (depending on your personal tastes). And next up is Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr by Michael Seth Starr.
So what are you reading?

1/30/10

Max Macks

Lotte Lenya

1/28/10

Loving Helen Mack

Lovely little lady Helen Mack.

1/27/10

Having a Field Day

Betty Field was an excellent actress
on both stage and screen.

1/26/10

Stupid Girl

Raccoon eye makeup girl Ellen Foley.

What's a Matter Baby - Ellen Foley

Read My Lips - Ellen Foley

Stupid Girl - Ellen Foley

1/24/10

Jean Simmons 1929 - 2010

Jean Simmons

1/23/10

Yet Another Julie Christie Day

Prior J.C. days HERE, HERE, and HERE.

1/22/10

Sweet B-A-B-Y

Akron's own Rachel Sweet.

B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet

Sad Song - Rachel Sweet

Baby, Let's Play House - Rachel Sweet

Pin a Medal on Mary - Rachel Sweet

Tonight - Rachel Sweet

Then He Kissed Me, Be My Baby - Rachel Sweet

1/18/10

A Cry in the Night

A Cry in the Night (1956) was directed by Frank Tuttle, who made Puritan Passions (1923), A Kiss in the Dark (1925), and This Gun For Hire (1942). Young Natalie Wood, who was lost between The Searchers and The Burning Hills, plays a headstrong girl who needs to learn her lesson after rebelling without a cause. Edmond O'Brien plays Natalie's overwrought father and overacts a storm. Brian Donlevy, the man with "the shortest arms in Hollywood," plays a no-nonsense detective. Richard Anderson, who made a career out of playing dweebs, is Natalie's concerned boyfriend. Closet case Raymond Burr, who had just finished Godzilla and was not yet Perry Mason, plays a nutjob who kidnaps Natalie. The poster for A Cry in the Night is slightly better than the movie. (And this is what passes for serious and insightful film criticism here at Starlet Showcase? Oh my!)