Remembering the fabulous, Anne Bancroft.
It shrinks my liver, doesn’t it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yes. But what does it do to my mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly, I’m above the ordinary. I’m competent, supremely competent. I’m walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I’m one of the great ones. I’m Michelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I’m Van Gogh, painting pure sunlight. I’m Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I’m John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I’m Jesse James and his two brothers — all three of ‘em. I’m W. Shakespeare. And out there it’s not Third Avenue any longer: it’s the Nile, Nat, the Nile — and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra.
Ray Milland and Anthony Dawson - Dial “M” for Murder (1954)
Love me some Milland!
Brief bio on Mack Sennett, the “King of Comedy” who launched the careers of Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and Gloria Swanson, among others.
Leslie Howard in Intermezzo
http://goosepimplyallover.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/hitchcocks-cameos/
Via supercut.org: Supercut of Alfred Hitchcock cameos.
By far to me, the most frightening part of the movie. Those trees still scare me!
Ava Gardner Remembered
from New York Social Diary, by Peter Evans
Honeymooners Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Rooney (Ava Gardner) visit the bride’s family in North Carolina. Ava’s mom offers a platter of Southern fried chicken to her new son-in-law.
