1/9/09
1/7/09
All Growed Up
American audiences didn't want little curly top Shirley Temple to grow up. Mother Nature, however, had other plans. In 1937, English writer Grahame Greene wrote a film review in which he suggested that the 9-year-old Temple's image held an certain unhealthy appeal to "middle-aged men and clergymen." Her studio, Twentieth Century-Fox, sued the Night and Day magazine, which folded shortly afterward, and Greene fled to Mexico. You can read more about the scandal here. And you can read more about Shirley here and here. And, of course, Dr. Macro has many fine photos of her.
In any case, Shirley grew up and married actor John Agar, had a real life after her reel life, and won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2006. Grahame Greene went on to write wonderfully bitter novels, stories, and screenplays, including The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Our Man in Havana (1959).
1/6/09
1/5/09
Bird of Paradise (1932)
You can watch the whole pre-Code Bird of Paradise
(1932) or just look at a clip HERE.
The young Dolores del Rio is lovely in it.
(Click on the pictures. They're large and pretty.)
1/4/09
In a Bossa Nova Mood
Don't really know why, but I'm in a bossa nova mood today.
Bebel Gilberto - Aganju
bossa nova
Matt Bianco - Ordinary Day
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