Showing posts with label Claudette Colbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claudette Colbert. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Alternate Best Actress Of 1934: Reader Voted

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I started putting these polls together a while back, got busy, forgot. Think I'll revive them in the run up to the Favorite Classic Mov...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Looking Ahead: Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament #3

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A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey. Voting beg...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Pre-Code Miriam Hopkins

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Adapted from three previous posts on the occasion of Miriam Hopkins's 109th birthday. Largely forgotten now, Miriam Hopkins was one of t...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Best Director Of 1932-33 (Comedy/Musical): Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble In Paradise and Design For Living), Part Two

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[To read Part One of this essay, click here ] II. The Lubitsch Touch Ernst Lubitsch arrived at Paramount Pictures in 1928. Like Warner Brot...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Best Supporting Actress of 1931-32: Miriam Hopkins (The Smiling Lieutenant and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde)

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Largely forgotten now, Miriam Hopkins was one of the sauciest actresses of the pre-Code age, excelling in light comedies and lurid melodrama...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Happy Birthday, Maurice Chevalier

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Katie nominee, singer/actor Maurice Chevalier, is 121 today, and given the frequency with which long-dead actors such as Lon Chaney and Doug...
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