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Lindsey D.'s ramblings on the moving image!

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Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia de Havilland!

Today is Olivia de Havilland’s 100th birthday! Olivia is probably best-known for playing Melanie “Mellie” Hamilton, Ashley Wilkes’ sweet wife-to-be and the eventual sister-in-law of Scarlett O’Hara in the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind. I became a fan of her through that role, Gone with the Wind being one of the first classic films… Read More Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia de Havilland!

July 1, 2016 Lindsey18 Comments

Lillian Powell: a tribute

Born May 29, 1896, Lillian Powell was a Canadian actress and dancer who would go on to train at Denishawn, appear in experimental short films and find success in television, in a career lasting from the 1920s through the end of the 1960s. After adopting her within the first year of her life, Charles and… Read More Lillian Powell: a tribute

May 29, 2014 LindseyLeave a comment

Thelma Ritter: a tribute

Happy (early) birthday to Thelma Ritter, born February 14, 1902 in Brooklyn, New York! Ritter got her acting start in high school plays before training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Prior to her first bit role in Miracle on 34th Street, she worked on the New York stage and on the radio. Her role… Read More Thelma Ritter: a tribute

February 12, 2014February 19, 2014 Lindsey6 Comments

Frances Marion: a tribute

Born on this day in 1888, Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens) would grow up to become one of the most prominent women of Hollywood’s golden age. But Frances Marion was no screen star — she was a writer, one of only a few women who were able to find major success in the male-dominated… Read More Frances Marion: a tribute

November 17, 2013November 24, 2013 Lindsey2 Comments

Ruby Dee: a tribute

Ruby Ann Wallace, later known as Ruby Dee, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1924. As Ruby described in With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, her parents were teenagers who hadn’t wanted another child. They already had one son and one daughter. When Ruby was about three years old, her mother… Read More Ruby Dee: a tribute

October 27, 2013November 1, 2013 LindseyLeave a comment

Linda Darnell: a tribute

Monetta Eloyse Darnell, who would later become known professionally as Linda Darnell, was born on October 16, 1923 in Dallas, Texas. One of six children (two of whom were half-siblings), Monetta’s mother had bigger dreams for her than the other children and was sure she had the potential to make it in show business. By… Read More Linda Darnell: a tribute

October 16, 2013October 23, 2013 Lindsey4 Comments

Carole Lombard: a tribute

On October 6, 1908, an average American couple by the names of Frederick and Elizabeth became parents to a baby girl. They already had two sons. They named their family’s new addition Jane Alice Peters, but she would later become known as Carole Lombard, the queen of screwball comedy. Elizabeth divorced Frederick when her daughter’s… Read More Carole Lombard: a tribute

October 6, 2013October 16, 2013 Lindsey4 Comments

Frank Capra and Barbara Stanwyck: Cinematic Dream Team

Ladies of Leisure: a tale of romance between two people who fall at opposite ends of the wealth and status spectrum. The Miracle Woman: an exploration of a woman’s struggle to find faith in humanity and in God after the loss of her father, and after her own foray into corrupt evangelism. Forbidden: the story… Read More Frank Capra and Barbara Stanwyck: Cinematic Dream Team

July 17, 2013February 4, 2016 Lindsey14 Comments

Janet Leigh: a tribute

Born July 6, 1927, Janet Helen Morrison is probably best known by modern audiences as the lady who gets killed in the shower scene of Psycho. But under her stage name of Janet Leigh, the actress racked up over 80 film and television credits. She was also an accomplished stage performer, a wife (married four times), a mother… Read More Janet Leigh: a tribute

July 6, 2013February 4, 2016 Lindsey2 Comments

Lena Horne: a tribute

TMP celebrates a very special birthday today! One of my favorite performers of all time, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, was born on June 30, 1917. Though she moved around the country quite a bit during her childhood, often traveling with her mother, by the 1930s Horne had made it back to her birth state of… Read More Lena Horne: a tribute

June 30, 2013July 8, 2013 Lindsey1 Comment

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