It's time to play "What's the Score?" Listen to the 5 music clips and guess the movies AND the composers. Then, see if you can spot the common theme or connection between the films. Send your answers to my DM and I'll give you your score! See reply for rules and hints: 1/3 #filmsky #moviesky

Virginia O'Brien was born today in 1919 #botd

Ida Lupino, fashion model — Movies, March 1941

Ida Lupino and Michael Chekhov working on a scene for “In Our Time” (1944).

Ida Lupino and Michael Chekhov working on a scene for “In Our Time” (1944).

Barbara Stanwyck, Ida Lupino, Jane Powell, John Forsyth, Leslie Nielsen are some of the stars in this 3 part TV-movie from 1973. It was a pilot for a tv series that never happened, which was something they did a lot of back then. Enjoy the glorious cheesiness of it all! youtu.be/Fkpa3sLxcrI?...

A newspaper photographer captures Ida Lupino visiting the Kabat-Kaiser Institute in July 1949. Lupino was preparing her film about polio, “Never Fear,” which she directed largely on location at the Institute a couple months later. Hollywood Citizen-News, July 30, 1949

“Havana Widows” (1933) is the first of 5 films centered around the “Blonde Bombshell” comedy duo of Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, who were WB’s answer to Hal Roach’s female comedy pair Zasu Pitts & Thelma Todd #MusComEnt #PreCodeApril #JoanBlondell #GlendaFarrell #PreCode

COMING NEXT WEEK!! #FilmNoir watch parties resume on Wed, April 22, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, with THE TURNING POINT (1952), as a formidable trio take on – and maybe take down – the mob. @tommykrasker.bsky.social will be hosting. Join us. Link: archive.org/details/the-... Use hashtag #TheNoirCollective

A newspaper photographer captures Ida Lupino visiting the Kabat-Kaiser Institute in July 1949. Lupino was preparing her film about polio, “Never Fear,” which she directed largely on location at the Institute a couple months later. Hollywood Citizen-News, July 30, 1949

JOIN US! tonight at 8pm BST, as #TheFilmCrowd watch another classic episode of Boris Karloff's THRILLER. IDA LUPINO directs an adaptation of an August Derleth story about a little girl and her...unusual...imaginary* friend, MR. GEORGE! Link in post below👇 *Maybe...;)

Cornel Wilde, Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino in the excellent noir thriller, “Road House” (1948)

Ginger Rogers

Cornel Wilde, Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino in the excellent noir thriller, “Road House” (1948)

JOIN US! this Wednesday, the 15th of April at 8pm BST, as #TheFilmCrowd raids the vault of Boris Karloff's THRILLER once again. The great IDA LUPINO directs an adaptation of an August Derleth story, MR GEORGE! Link👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OL...

New from me: Malcolm X remains increasingly relevant over three decades later. The Civil Rights battles wage on today as the period's prejudiced John Birch Society has morphed into new movements like Moms for Liberty's book-banning outreach and Turning Point U.S.A.'s professor-bullying watch list.

“Ida Lupino, Warner Bros. actress, is shown with jewelry she has collected from studio employees to send to service men in the islands of the Pacific.” — July, 1943

“Ida Lupino, Warner Bros. actress, is shown with jewelry she has collected from studio employees to send to service men in the islands of the Pacific.” — July, 1943

New husband of Ida Lupino, Collier Young, writes about her in Screen Guide, March 1949: “My Wonderful Wife.” This issue would have been on sale around the time Lupino was in final preparations for her first independent production, “Not Wanted” (1949).

Una Merkel and Harold Lloyd in “The Cats-Paw” (1934).

Sending out a bat signal to my fellow Joan Crawford fans and classic movie obsessives . . . here's a true cause for celebration. Unavailable for nearly 90 years, her legendary 1932 precode Letty Lynton is at long last getting a restoration. I can. not. wait! filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/fil...

Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres

New husband of Ida Lupino, Collier Young, writes about her in Screen Guide, March 1949: “My Wonderful Wife.” This issue would have been on sale around the time Lupino was in final preparations for her first independent production, “Not Wanted” (1949).

Jean Harlow in The New Movie Magazine, Feb. 1932. Photo by William A. Fraker.

Ida Lupino portrait by Bert Six for Warner Bros., ca. 1944

Ida Lupino portrait by Bert Six for Warner Bros., ca. 1944

One of my favorite photos of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in action. It captures the joy and graceful movement that can be so hard to capture in stills. This is The Continental dance in their first starring film, “The Gay Divorcée” (1934).

The musical comedy THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers is out now on Blu-ray from Warner Archive www.theentertainmentfactor.com/2026/04/gay-... #bluray #classicmovies #classicfilms #thegaydivorcee #musical #romance #comedy #fredastaire #gingerrogers

Ida Lupino by Scotty Welbourne, 1941.

Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino in “One Rainy Afternoon” (Pickford-Lasky, 1936)

Mary Pickford, #BOTD 1892, left the screen in the early 1930s and moved behind the camera, teaming up with Jesse Lasky in a production venture. Their company only produced two films—both released in 1936 and both featuring an aspiring female lead on loan from Paramount named Ida Lupino.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! #TheNoirCollective returns with weekly watch parties two weeks from today: Wednesday, April 22, at 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT. Our first #filmnoir? We’ll be announcing it next week. (Hint: it’s *not* one of these. ⬇️😅) @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @tommykrasker.bsky.social

Raise a glass to the often irascible, but always lovable Walter Connolly #botd

I need to take a moment and be vocal about this because there are things in life that need a minute to stop. There are no words to describe how repulsive and shameful it is to have a sitting world leader, heck, any PERSON, say things like how "a whole civilization will die" if demands are not met.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

Steve Cochran, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff in a scene from “Private Hell 36” (Filmakers, 1954) — a crime drama which Lupino also co-wrote. Don Siegel directed.

Ida Lupino, fashion photo for Paramount, 1935

Is this (as worn by Ginger Rogers in Carefree [1938]) the coolest dress ever worn on film? Maybe so.

🧵 1/7 Sometimes, an artist's legacy is borne not by his individual triumphs, but by the impact he has on the artists with whom he collaborates. In the history of film music, composer and conductor Lionel Newman, born on this day (1916-1989) is one such man. #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

Henry Fonda in Motion Picture, December 1942, for “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1943).

Glenda Farrell, ca. 1933

Once the powerful woman in Hollywood and then ghosted from film and cultural history: Mary C. McCall Jr. , 3x president of the Screen Writers Guild (now WGAW). Screenwriter. Feminist. Blacklisted. 🎂 With Dorothy Arzner,1936. #skystorians #filmsky #WomenFilmmakers #Hollywood #screenwriter

Glenda Farrell and her son, Tommy, with #botd Robert Riskin, 1933.

Here’s a lobby card for “Smart Girl” (1935) — the first Hollywood film where Ida Lupino gets top billing, albeit below the title.

Astaire and Rogers singing Kern and Fields "Pick Yourself Up" from Swing Time, because we all need cheering. They were the first to sing so many classics from the playbook. (The greatest dance scene of all time follows). www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9q...

🧵 On this day in 1942, the movie RUDYARD KIPLING'S JUNGLE BOOK was released. The score by Miklós Rózsa became the first commercially released soundtrack album of a non-musical film. So in 2018, film score enthusiast Jeffrey D. Kern dubbed April 3rd "National Film Score Day" #filmsky #moviesky 1/6

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in One Mile from Heaven (1937) 🕺

Jack Buchanan and Fred Astaire on set of THE BAND WAGON (1953).

Ida Lupino and Gail Patrick in “Smart Girl” (Paramount, 1935). Lupino has the title role in one of her early films in Hollywood.

Generalizing a group of people in this way is also known as abject racism.