Now watching Jean Arthur and Mae Busch in Husband Hunters (1927).

Listen back to the Sass Mouth Dames podcast ep on Born to Kill (1947). I talk about screenwriter Eve Greene, who started as a secretary in MGM and climbed the studio ladder. Zelda Sears taught her how to write scripts. Together they wrote two hits for Marie Dressler on.soundcloud.com/tKcH7ISGdxPZ...

Getting ready to introduce Alice Faye and Gypsy Rose Lee in Ypu Can’t Have Everything (1937) in the glamorous Dot Theatre!

Tonight in Brooklyn-- NIGHT NURSE in 35mm! Kim and I will introduce and sign books afterward. Hope to see you there! -- nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...

Edward Stevenson designed a studded purse that serves as a modern-day gladiator shield for Claire Trevor when she carries it to divorce court. It must be the inspiration for Valentino’s rockstud line. Catch up with the new podcast episode on Born to Kill (1947). on.soundcloud.com/tSi79jPI6eHX...

*Blood curdling SCREAM* A billion dollars.

Sharing this article I wrote on June Havoc (born on this day) for Garageland magazine back in December 2022. I’ve never posted it before. Thanks to editor Cathy Lomax for inviting me to contribute.

Happy June Havoc's birthday!

See you Thursday next for You Can’t Have Everything (1937), starring Alice Faye, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Don Ameche. Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 36 rolls on! Get your tickets at Eventbrite. We’re back in the glamorous The Dot Theatre.

'Half the time they're working girls!' 'Half the time they're working men!' We used to know how to write tag lines.

Crows today.

Yessssss! My copy of Pre-Code Essentials by Kim Luperi and Danny Reid @pre-code.com has finally arrived!

Stay tuned for a new podcast episode next week.

Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht under their filmmaker's credo in Paramount's New York studio during production of Crime Without Passion (1934).

Verree Teasdale swaggers from a seated position.

🖤🖤🖤RIP Maria Riva (1924-2025)🖤🖤🖤

🎶 I want a good deal more. I want a good deal more 🎶 Say She She delivers one banger after another.

Sass Mouth Dames Film Club Christmas is serving the nuts on 11 December in the Dot Theatre. Tickets available at Eventbrite on 15 November.

I'm up on episode 374 of the Forgotten Hollywood podcast chatting about PRE-CODE ESSENTIALS. Listen here! -- open.spotify.com/episode/2ZQ5...

Will write the remake for cheese and crackers 🙏

Bank holiday treats.

Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 36 kicks off 13 November with You Can’t Have Everything (1937). Alice Faye plays a starving playwright with a yen for spaghetti. Get your tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...

DC and NYC! Next month Kim and I will be visiting you with some pre-Code screening goodness to promote our forthcoming book! More here: pre-code.com/the-pre-code...

‘I don’t mind so much being killed. But you know how hard it is for me to get up in the morning.’ Same, Louis Jordan.

Sunday night in Corkscrew Alley 😍

Sex Pirates of 1931 is available for your viewing pleasure! Join us in the powder room. youtu.be/3l_oyxflaKI

My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy Carole Lombard Day!

“The Lupino Legend” in Cosmopolitan magazine — first of a two-part article on Ida Lupino published in January and February 1943. “She can break your heart or make you laugh. She's five feet two of dynamite and she has Hollywood on its ear.”

Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 36 kicks off next month. You Can't Have Everything (1937) Too Many Husbands (1940) The Major and the Minor (1942) Tickets available at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...

Pre-Code movies showing on @tcmtv.bsky.social in October, including a night of films coming from my new book! -- pre-code.com/pre-code-fil...

#filmsky #moviesky #photosky #photography Championing a directional lighting technique, George Hurrell became Hollywood’s preeminent portrait photographer in the 1930/40s. If you’re in Washington DC in the next 6 months, check out this exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.

First look at Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 36 in November, when we celebrate Alice Fay, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jean Arthur, and Ginger Rogers. Tickets available in October.

If you’re still celebrating Garbo’s birthday, why not check out the radio play I wrote about showbiz hopefuls? House of the Seven Garbos is a three-part series from Sass Mouth Dames podcast, available wherever you get your shows.

Treat yourself to the nine-part interview with Lillian Burns Sidney, born on this day, the acting coach who taught a generation of MGM stars, including Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Esther Williams and Debbie Reynolds. A legend. youtu.be/GJrxV2lkvEw?...

Went into the office to give a workshop today. Good time to hang up Marilyn.

On this day in 1929, Joan Crawford left her hand and footprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

If looks could kill, Palance would have died way before the credits. #TCMParty #SuddenFear #NoirAlley

Barbara Stanwyck by the White Studio, NYC 1927.

For more than 40 years, Richard Fleischer directed big stars like Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and Jane Russell. But he was only star struck with Sylvia Sidney, on the set of Violent Saturday (1955). Sylvia made it easy for him: “Just tell me when to cry.” He titled his memoir after her advice.

The Parkinson interview with Anita Loos airs on BBC Four Thursday after Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Frances Drake, Toby Wing, and Lona Andre pose with their temporary tattoos supporting the NRA (the National Recovery Administration, not the gun nuts). Movie Classic magazine, January 1934.

The Women was released on this day in 1939. Praise be.

They had me at Hollywood trilogy.

“Go home and tell your mamas you’ve been born again tonight.” Gary Cooper, swoon merchant. Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 35 kicks off next week with City Streets (1931. Get your tickets at Eventbrite.

How the heck did they miss this?

Only two more weeks until the return of Sass Mouth Dames Film Club. Join us for the screen debut of Sylvia Sidney in City Streets (1931). Tickets include a glass of wine and snacks. Not bad for a tenner. www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...

Oh, no! I love that place.

On Thursday the rare documentary from 1969, Garbo, by Joan Crawford, is on BBC4. Screaming!

Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 35 kicks off in September. You get a glass of wine, a snappy intro from me (I don’t read notes!), and a red hot pre-Code for €10. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...