Carl Rollyson
@crollyson
Reviewer@NewYorkSun;https://www.nysun.com; forthcoming: Making the American Presidency; Searching for Sylvia; Sappho’s Fire; Our Eve Arden; Herman Melville Anew
7/28/59: “Dear mother & Warren”: Describes encounter with a bear in Yellowstone, trip through Nevada, the Grand Canyon, camping near Lake Tahoe, on to Utah, Salt Lake, Sacramento, San Francisco., “both of us tanned, and have the experience of our lives.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia…
July 28, 1940: Still thinking about his “Huck Finn novel.” That would become The Reivers—novel and film discussed here: upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faulkn…
She appears here: amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-…; and also in my work in progress: Our Eve Arden
Marlene. Never anyone like her before or since.
A fascinating development. Although the blogger says the material may not change the Plath narrative, I think it will in this sense: Knowing more about Aurelia and the elusive Warren is bound to alter the perspective on Plath. aureliaplath.blogspot.com/2025/07/please…
July 27, 1958: After ten “sterile hysterical” days, produces several poems and is rewriting an old story, reads Hardy’s poems and is revived. upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia…
Edmonton Enterprise (7/26/26): “Sweetheart of the gaunt and flighty Stella Dallas, lover of her dignified, stately rival he runs the full gamut of heart emotions in a picture that radiates the love lives of two contrasting women.”
7/26/56: To Jean Stein: He was the one “you knew you could always depend on and trust, and you knew you knew it.” He took a writer in residence post at UVA to be near Jill, but he would be close enough to Jean and “come up” to NY “every two or 3 weeks.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faulkn…
July 26, 1959: “Salt Lake desert at sunset spectacular!”upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia…
7/26/43: Completes revision of Russian segment of Battle Cry. This would have been the most ambitious film Hollywood ever made about all the battle theaters in World War II. Warner Brothers cancelled the film because it became too expensive to produce. amazon.com/Life-William-F…
Approaching 30,000 words of my biography, Our Eve Arden.
💖 Eve Arden (1908 – 1990) American film, radio, stage and television actress ✨ Photo taken 1937 📸
Faulkner wrote a script, “Angel’s Flight,” with another screenwriter. It was never produced and no one knew about it until I discovered it in an archive and wrote about it here: amazon.com/Life-William-F…
This side view of Angels Flight funicular with a truck parked on Clay St (which doesn’t exist anymore) and that house right next door reminds us how tightly packed everything was around Angels Flight. #DLTA circa mid-to-late 1950s
Movie is discussed here: amazon.com/Making-Sylvia-…
Who's on board for "Gaslight" (1944) tonight at 6:30 PDT on #TCM? One of my favorite Ingrid Bergman films for which she won a Best Actress Oscar. Costarring Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten & Angela Lansbury in her film debut. I'm here for it! #TCMParty
I deal with those two here: upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/Marily…; Then there are those scene with Eve Arden in At the Circus, which I am writing about now.
Marilyn Monroe and Groucho Marx (1949)
“My life has been like the plot of a movie these past years: a psychological, romance & travel thriller. Such a plot.” upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia…
7/25/30: NY Herald Tribune: RC in Raffles, an “unusual type of criminal” with “ironic, bantering nonchalance.” Critics carped about the static quality of early talkies, but audiences were not disappointed because RC made the talk itself paramount. amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-…
Took out his phone
I prohibited phones in my documentary film class. When a student took out his film during the showing of a film, I kicked him out of class. He went to complain to the dept chair, then the student’s cell phone rang, and he said to the chair, “I have to take this call.”
I prohibited phones in my documentary film class. When a student took out his film during the showing of a film, I kicked him out of class. He went to complain to the dept chair, then the student’s cell phone rang, and he said to the chair, “I have to take this call.”
how many classroom hours have been lost irretrievably by individual students so long as iPhones were allowed?--must be a staggering number. to some (of us) it seems so curious that iPhones & other distracting devices were ever allowed in classrooms.
upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-La…
Jennifer Dawson’s lost chronicle of a crack-up. I write about the last book Plath read in The Last Days of Sylvia Plath observer.co.uk/culture/books/…
Jennifer Dawson’s lost chronicle of a crack-up. I write about the last book Plath read in The Last Days of Sylvia Plath observer.co.uk/culture/books/…
