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TINTYPE TUESDAY: Classic Film Stars Let Their Freckles Fly Free!
sistercelluloid ♦ March 23, 2016 ♦ 5 Comments

Welcome to another edition of TINTYPE TUESDAY! In April 1976, George Hurrell wrote to Joan Crawford, his friend of almost half a century, asking her to say a few words for a book about his work. With it, he sent a 1930 photograph, his favorite of the thousands they’d shot in 33 sessions together. “I’ve always …
50 Classic Film Scenes in Black and White: The Original Fifty Shades of Grey
sistercelluloid ♦ March 1, 2015 ♦ 6 Comments
Had enough of the hype surrounding Fifty Shades of Grey, which has now made the transition from the page to the screen, much the way an awful cold might progress into pneumonia? Wondering why a dreadful hack writer seems to think she invented sex? And let’s not even talk about the shameless worship of expensive stuff, which, let’s face it, is …
Lombard and Francis in IN NAME ONLY: Onscreen Rivals, Offscreen Sisters
sistercelluloid ♦ January 31, 2015 ♦ 13 Comments
Making Kay Francis bitter and brittle is like spooning meringue into a sardine can. But that’s the role she was dealt in John Cromwell’s In Name Only—and it was only through the grace of Carole Lombard that she was cast in the film at all. The two first met in 1931, sparring over William Powell in …
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