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Bag of Tricks
In Rear Window, 1954, Grace Kelly’s elegant Mark Cross bag emerges as something of a major character, a twin symbol of desire—Kelly cooly snaps opens the bag, unfurling a fetching neglige—and the...
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Ten Greatest Movies Ever Made
Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak in Vertigo, 1958. Every ten years, Sight & Sound magazine, a British publication devoted to the — cue cultured BBC accent — Art of Cinema, surveys some 1,000 critics,...
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Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s: 1954—’55
Grace Kelly, a golden angel, swoops in to kiss Jimmy Stewart, Rear Window, 1954. We continue our survey of the twenty greatest movies of the 1950s. For a complete listing of the greatest movies of the...
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Friday Photos: Totally Random
Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart in a publicity still for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece, Rear Window. Usually, we publish photos that have a central theme. Not today. We’re feeling a bit scattered....
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Friday Photos: There Ought To Be a Law
“There ought to be a law against any man who doesn’t want to marry Myrna Loy.”—Jimmy Stewart “Why, she was pressed, does she think she provoked such strong feelings of empathy from her audiences? After...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“I can’t wait to be forgotten.”—Kay Francis In the mid-1930’s Kay Francis was Warner Brothers’ biggest star and one of the highest paid people in the US. Countess Uta of Naumburg, 1000 – 1046. Statue...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“Marilyn was a very calculating girl. She was never late on our set, I’ll tell you that. She was trying to get me to go to bed with her while she was trying to get Howard [Hawks, the director] to do...
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually agent, actor, director, producer, leading man. And you are a star if you sleep with them in that order. Crude but true.”—Hedy Lamarr Edward Hopper, New...
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