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We adore old movies and believe they are good for you, like expensive chocolate and the spa. Fashionably filmy movie blogger.
Our guide today is the 1955 film noir The Big Bluff, starring Martha Vickers as the mark and John Bromfield as the homme fatale, a man who uses his looks and charm to manipulate women. He also can’t wait to tell his girlfriend (Rosemarie Stack), a woman ready to leave her husband as soon as Bromfield gets his mitts on the dough. When Vickers’s assistant accuses Bromfield of Riding Roughshod over Vickers’s health, Bromfield immediately fires back. The Big Bluff: starring John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton.
It’s a 12-storey structure based on the Babylonian set from the 1916 film, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages, and it’s built to scale. Historian Gary Krist, author of The Mirage Factory, says at the time, Intolerance “had already taken longer to shoot than any other motion picture in history”.¹ Director D.W. Griffith started shooting the film in October 1914, and he was still at it in the spring of 1916. Because production was taking so long, Krist says Griffith resorted to selling shares after his New York backer cut off funding, and other long-time investors started to panic. The film has an intriguing structure, weaving together four historically disparate stories from Babylon (539 BC), Jerusalem (33 AD), Paris (1572 AD), and “modern” day (1916 AD).
This year, Reel Infatuation runs June 7-9, and we want to hear about your film/TV/book character crush. * Our main focus is cinema, but your character crushes may come from different media (television, books), any era (silents, early talkies, contemporary sources), any language, etc. My co-host – and brains behind the operation – is the fabulous Maedez of Font and Frock and A Small Press Life. Andy Travis (Gary Sandy) from WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) Silver Screenings – Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) in To Be or Not to Be (1942)
We think about all the witty women we know, our mother included, and we’re sad an entire demographic can be written off as Non-Humorous. So what are we to do, but look to Hollywood actress Doris Day? She was still a popular singer until the late 1960s, and let’s not forget her Golden Globe awards, her Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and her Best Actress Oscar nomination for Pillow Talk (1959). No Flowers is Hudson’s film, and while he is amusing in this role, the script relies on Day’s reactions – It’s not until she runs into ex-boyfriend Clint Walker on the golf course that she starts to wonder about her husband.