This is goodbye. I’m carrying on posting about old Hollywood and classic movie stars over on Instagram (@erinmatthiessen). Follow me there, if you want. I’ll keep this account open so my archive will still be available. Thanks to followers and friends. I love you all.
I’m going to step away from this blog for a while. It’s been over 11 years since my first post, and lately I’ve not been feeling it. So l want to take some time off to decide if I want to keep on doing what I’ve been doing or continue differently or just quit altogether.
Thank you to all my followers. Thanks to those who message me and share photos with me. I have enjoyed our conversations. I will never stop loving Old Hollywood and classic film. Just need some time to rest and recuperate.
Audrey Hepburn on a backlot during the filming of Sabrina - by Mark Shaw, 1953.
I don’t know how you men get that way, but every time you meet an attractive woman you begin to plan how and where you can club her wings down.
JOAN CRAWFORD as Helen Wright in
HUMORESQUE (1946) dir. Jean Negulesco
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Since first I saw your face, this music has been singing to me of you and of - love triumphant! Yet listen - there sounds an ominous undercurrent of warning!
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) dir. Rupert Julian
Starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin
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Bringing out all these things on the screen, separating them from the incidentals, seems to me to confront a film, a film based on factual reports, with a more substantial responsibility than the artistic reproduction of events: the responsibility of sounding a warning from real events, of educating, and in this way ultimately having a preventive effect…
Peter Lorre in M (Fritz Lang, 1931), the story of the hunt for a pedophile killer through the underworld of Berlin
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Gary Cooper in the epic silent film Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927) which was a major breakthrough for him as a performer.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney, 1937)
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Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall in The Painted Veil (Richard Boleslawski, 1934)
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Sophia Loren in a publicity photo for Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway, 1957)
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Lillian Gish in Way Down East (D.W. Griffith, 1920)
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Myrna Loy, c.1930