Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Spacegirl Adventures, Part Twenty-three

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What Has Gone Before:  The menacing Cadet Alpha is hot on the trail of Spacegirl, but our heroine is executing what she hopes will be anothe...
Monday, July 29, 2019

The Thelma Todd Quarterly

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Actress Thelma Todd was born on July 29, 1906. To mark the date, I'm presenting a series of photos she posed for in promotion of "H...

Musical Monday with Calloway and Boop

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The early Betty Boop cartoons are very trippy experiences... but this one seems moreso than others. The Old Man of the Mountain (1933) St...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

The tragedy of 'One Cookie Left'

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Taken for what this is, "One Cookie Left" is an amusing pastiche of early silent comedies. It's not brilliant, but it's al...
Friday, July 26, 2019

'The Soilers' is almost buried by weak slapstick

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The Soilers (1932) Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Thelma Todd, James C. Morton, and Bud Jamison Director: George Marshall Rating: Six of Ten Stars...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Picture Perfect Wednesday: Bebe Daniels

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Bebe Daniels may be one of the most resilient actresses in film history. Born in 1901, she got her start as a child actor, at the age of 10,...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Lucille Ball is the lure for a serial killer

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Lured (aka "Personal Column") (1947) Starring: Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, George Sanders, George Zucco, Cedric Hardwicke, and ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

The most complete version of 'Pinched'

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As regular readers of Shades of Gray  (all seven of you) have probably noticed, I've been trawling YouTube for things to review much mor...
Friday, July 19, 2019

'Backs to Nature' is mildly amusing

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Backs to Nature (1933) Starring: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, and Don Barclay Director: Gus Meins Rating: Five of Ten Stars Patsy (Kelly) ...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

It's National Hot Dog Day!

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It's National Hot Dog Day today, July 18... and since Oscar Mayer now makes hotdogs (cheese dogs--yum!) I can actually eat (none of the...