Savannah Monroe
@garbo__talks
Writer. Researcher. Classical Hollywood, the woman’s film, and Anne Bancroft. The http://garbo-talks.com gal.
New essay is up: On Anne Bancroft’s star-making role in Two for the Seesaw, balancing acts, and the importance of being seen. garbo-talks.com/2021/06/04/see…
Famously:
Give me an example of the best anyone has ever looked in a movie
Happy birthday, queen Natalie Wood
Most are aware of Natalie Wood and Elvis Presley’s brief romance from the bottom of 1956, but what I find truly fascinating is Natalie’s recollection of the relationship; apparently it ended because she couldn’t handle his possessive mother and the fact that he was “square,” lol.
I think about this wonderful scene with James Cagney (#BOTD) from William A. Wellman’s Other Men's Women (1931) often
Farewell, Connie Francis; I know her best from WHERE THE BOYS ARE. When I went through my late mom's vast collection of 45s some time back, I discovered how much she loved her Connie—not the Connie Francis jukebox in THE CRAFT, but still, quite the assortment. RIP, Ms. Francis.
Barbara Stanwyck is one of the absolute greats. Charmingly yearning in Remember the night, playfully scheming in Meet John Doe, sexually conniving in Double indemnity or The strange Love of Martha Ivers, bitterly experienced in All I desire, true emotions were her stock-in-trade.
Remembering Barbara Stanwyck on her Birthday #otd July 16, 1907🕊️
Anne Bancroft Nation we never lose
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 26th on Blu-ray in the US form @WarnerArchive: #SevenWomen (1966)! In the final film of an illustrious career that spanned nearly five decades, director John Ford breaks his old mold: famed for making westerns, he directed an “eastern”;…
July 16 is Barbara Stanwyck day. In the pantheon of acting greats, there's Stanwyck and then there's everybody else. On screen she could be vulnerable, fierce, sensual, romantic, wisecracking, and diabolically evil, and she made you believe every last second of her performances.
If I were to answer “which nepo baby is more talented than their famous parent(s)?” with Geraldine Chaplin would anybody get mad at me
Ad for "Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo. Motion Picture Herald, November 16 1939.
When someone calls themselves a 'pervert' on Film Twitter, it means they're a virgin who's seen six James Spader movies.
he really showed up to court looking flawless during the entirely of his case against sony
A cinephile who doesn't watch many films made before 2000 is an oxymoron.
I think the fact that many cinephiles don’t bother watching films made before 2000, except for those in the Sight and Sound Top 250, and the arbitrary expectation of a “late-style masterpiece” will be disastrous for Brian De Palma’s legacy.
When I think about Eva Marie Saint, I inexplicably think of her in All Fall Down (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer. Her sober performance gives weight and depth to an otherwise cheaply ambitious film. What’s more is that her character has the utterly inspired name of Echo O’Brien.