Forgive me for breaking the timeline, but I wanted to note that today is the birthday of Jane Greer, one of my all-time favorite actresses and the only femme fatale in the grand history of film noir I'd let shoot me. She'd be 86 today if she were still kicking it. No doubt I'll write about her at length come 1947 when she starred with Robert Mitchum in Out Of The Past, but in the meantime, drink in one of the greatest entrances in movie history:
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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