Jean Parker in Photoplay, August 1935

Glenda Farrell in an Orry-Kelly gown promoting “Kansas City Princess” (1934). Photo by Scotty Welbourne.

Ida Lupino for “The Light That Failed” (1939). “Ida dearly loves to don outlandish makeup, and fairy shrieks ‘Isn’t it wonderful!’ whenever someone says she looks horrible.”

Jean Parker in Photoplay, August 1935

Glenda Farrell in an Orry-Kelly gown promoting “Kansas City Princess” (1934). Photo by Scotty Welbourne.

Let's play "What's the Score?" Listen to the 5 music clips here. Figure out the movie each one is from (but NOT using an audio search!), and POST your answers IN THE REPLIES! 1 point per movie, 2 points for composers. Guess the connecting theme for 5 bonus points! Good luck! #filmsky #moviesky

Ida Lupino for “The Light That Failed” (1939). “Ida dearly loves to don outlandish makeup, and fairy shrieks ‘Isn’t it wonderful!’ whenever someone says she looks horrible.”

1957: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and children in the snow.

Fred Astaire and Joan Crawford, no doubt while working on “ Dancing Lady” (1933)—Astaire’s first movie appearance. We are finally re-watching this after over a decade thanks to reading the new Joan Crawford biography by Scott Eyman.

Press book cover for the 1944 Warner Brothers drama “In Our Time,” starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid.

Fred Astaire and Joan Crawford, no doubt while working on “ Dancing Lady” (1933)—Astaire’s first movie appearance. We are finally re-watching this after over a decade thanks to reading the new Joan Crawford biography by Scott Eyman.

Press book cover for the 1944 Warner Brothers drama “In Our Time,” starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid.

For movie #2 today, it's Joan time. #nw GOODBYE AGAIN ('33).

Ginger Rogers and friend. Photo by Herman Zerrenner for Paramount, NYC 1930.

Ida Lupino

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“Take a lengthy look at the face of Glenda Farrell—for it's the face that is launching a thousand prophecies of stardom a day. Hollywood is raving about this newcomer’s simply grand larceny in stealing every picture that comes her way.” — Motion Picture, March 1933

“Ida Lupino portrays the wife of a man condemned to die in the electric chair and Walter Coy appears as a reporter assigned to cover the execution” — Four Star Playhouse episode “A Bag of Oranges”, aired Jan. 6, 1955

Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn in “The More The Merrier” (1943) — finally re-watched this all-time great romantic comedy thanks to Jean Arthur’s star-of-the-month on TCM.

Ida Lupino, 1947: “Now I want to wander from the path of acting. … But the day has come when I am looking toward a new horizon—that of the sea. To become a vagabond—without the pantomime, the glare of the footlights, the merciless eye of the camera—that is my dream.”

“I have always tried to make my photoplays present the truth, to lay before the race a cross section of its own life to view the colored heart at close range[…] that we can raise our people to greater heights.” —Oscar Micheaux

“To be entrusted with a character was always a big responsibility to me.”–Edward G. Robinson hometownstohollywood.com/internationa...

The fascists and there enablers are finally on the back foot. Now is the time to push harder than ever. Keep calling your reps, keep posting your thoughts about ICE everywhere. The vibe shift against Trump cruelty is here. All gas no brakes.

Nice to know I’ve got company in wanting bigger and better roles for Glenda Farrell! “We've had lots of letters lately asking for bigger parts for Glenda Farrell. Maybe Warner's ‘We're in the Money,’ her next film, will satisfy.” — Movie Mirror, Sep. 1935

Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.

Ginger Rogers on the cover of Movie Classic, Jan. 1936

Glenda Farrell portrait, late 1930s

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

It's time! Let's play "What's the Score?" Play this video and listen to the 5 music clips. Figure out the movie each one is from (but NOT using an audio search!), and send me a DM with the movie titles and the composers. (rules in reply) 1/2 #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky #games #fun #quiz

Ida Lupino in “Private Hell 36” (1954) — penultimate film produced by her company, The Filmakers.

Released on this day in 1941 was the film noir, ‘High Sierra’. Directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, & Arthur Kennedy, the notorious thief Roy Earle is hired to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery. #OnThisDay

So inspiring!

Today, Minneapolis sent a clear message: ICE is not welcome here, and we will protect our community! #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN

Adele Astaire and Fred Astaire in the 1920s

Adele Astaire and Fred Astaire in the 1920s

Margaret Lindsay y #BOTD Dan Duryea durante el rodaje de Scarlett Street (Fritz Lang, 1945).

This is such a disgrace and embarrassment for our country. These exhibits were excellent, and based on archaeological excavations that were done when the new Liberty Bell Center was in development.

Ann Sothern - poster for "The Hell Cat" - BOTD

Ida Lupino in the Kraft Suspense Theatre episode “One Step Down,” also starring Gena Rowlands, Leslie Nielsen and Jack Weston — originally aired Nov. 14, 1963.

"When it was time to do the jumps over each other's heads into splits in the routine, we never rehearsed it." —Harold Nicholas "It came nice and easy. Nick Castle said not to rehearse it, that we knew what to do, so we did it like a rehearsal. And in one take!" —Fayard Nicholas TheNicholasBrothers

Actress Claudette Colbert skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Glenda Farrell in two-color Technicolor in “Mystery of the Wax Museum” (1933).

Ida Lupino and dialogue director Richard Irving working on the set of “On Dangerous Ground” (1951).

Ann Sheridan by Elmer Fryer #botd, 1937.

Discovered a Jean Arthur movie from her star era that I’d not only never seen, but never heard of! (Thanks to TCM’s star-of-the-month schedule.) Not at the level of her peak films like “Too Many Husbands” (1940), but still pretty entertaining.

THE LADY AND THE MOB (1939) Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman

I received a notice that I've been posting Pre-Code film clips here for over a year and have yet to post the one with Toby Wing dancing on a tabletop in a negligee. So, rather than pay the fine, here it is, with a bonus of Ida Lupino doing the rhumba. From Search for Beauty (1934).

Claudette Colbert by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1938)

Ida Lupino and Monty Woolley in a scene from “Life Begins at Eight-Thirty” (1942)

Glenda Farrell in Movie Classic, May 1933