Starlet Showcase

8/8/09

You may have noticed that I've added some photos to the
right side of the page. I picked some pictures of ladies
looking to the left, so that we'd all get this weird sort of
effect that they are looking at the posts like you and I are.
I like the effect myself. It sort of frames the page better.
Anyway, there's Ginger Rogers and Frances Dee and
Michelle Pfeiffer and Phoebe Cates and Angela Lansbury
and Debra "Little Debbie Snack Cakes" Paget and Anne
Baxter and Britt Ekland and Claire Trevor and Constance
Bennett, not in that order, of course. And that's the last
time I'm gonna list their names. But I might add some
more later if I happen to stumble across some leftist
looking starlets. (And you were thinking this was going
to be a political post. Ha!)

Those Marsha Hunt Eyes

Marsha Hunt and her killer eyes.

8/7/09

Hitchcock Looks Down #5 (5 of 5)

If you've been wondering where all these Hitchcock vidcaps have been coming from lately, well, they're from a marvelous page called 1000 Frames of Hitchcock at the Alfred Hitchcock Wiki. There are a thousand video captures from each of the Master's 52 films. "The aim of the project," they say, "is to create a library of images which can be used to illustrate blog posts, web articles and reviews, etc." It's a fun place to visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Young and Innocent (1937)

Under Capricorn (1949)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Suspicion (1941)

Spellbound (1945)

Sabotage (1936)

Murder! (1930)

Lifeboat (1944)

Frenzy (1972)

Great Auntie Merle

Have you ever noticed that, in certain photographs, actress Merle Oberon looks quite lovely and yet, in other photos, she looks like somebody's great-Aunt Mildred or something, if you know what I mean? Maybe it's her small mouth. Maybe it depended on the hair style or the lighting. I don't really know. I remember being thoroughly impressed with her in the slinky costumes she wore in A Night in Paradise (1946), a silly Technicolor adventure that is worth watching if only to see those slinky costumes. She was 5' 2" and went by the nickname "Obie," which I think is cute. Anyway, love her or hate her, here she is. And here's one of those slinky costumes.