Caroline L.
@coffeeandnoir.bsky.social
Film & cultural historian/writer/filmmaker; researching performance styles; actors in multiple artistic roles; actor/director collaborations; Irish (McGoohan/Harris/Boyd), Scottish & Welsh actors; noir (Mitchum and co); 1930s-70s; creative projects
Happy Barbara Stanwyck day on TCM'S Summer Under the Stars #TCMParty 🎞 #SummerUnderTheStars ⭐️
The Brown Derby, Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, California 🌴 Early 1940s 📷 Ansel Adams
Happy National Book Lovers Day, Twilight Zone fans!
#BornOnThisDay the great British film director Ken Annakin (1914-2009). Some fine #BritNoir titles including Double Confession (1950), Across the Bridge (1957) and The Informers (1963). #FilmNoir
Sunday *Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945) #TCMParty #SummerUnderTheStars
Ella Raines by John Florea, 1944.
Monica Vitti à Rome en 1965 © Larry Ellis/Getty images
Fifty-two years ago today, Chinatown opened at the Empire Leicester Square... #Chinatown #1970s #film #films #RomanPolanski #JackNicholson #FayeDunaway #JohnHuston #RobertTowne #thriller
Happy Gene Tierney Day for Summer Under the Stars! 🚣♀️
Film poster art by German artist, Josef Fenneker Das Fräulein von Kasse 12 (1927). (The Woman From Till 12) 🔽
Happy Gene Tierney day on TCM'S #SummerUnderTheStars *Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), a #FilmNoir filmed in glorious, vibrant Technicolor. 📽Cinematographer ~ Leon Shamroy using a three-strip Technicolor camera, the film won the Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography. #TCMParty
In Nicholas Ray Films We Wear Red Ray was BOTD in 1911 Johnny Guitar (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Bigger Than Life (1956) Party Girl (1958)
Sylvia Sidney at Malibu beach for a photo session for An American Tragedy (1931). 🔽
BOTD #FilmNoir maestro Robert Siodmak!! MCCT5: 5)Cry/City 4)File on Thelma J 3)Criss Cross 2)Phantom Lady 1)Killers More: @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/m... @dcairns.bsky.social: movingimagesource.us/articles/dar... @christinalefou.bsky.social: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
The Visionary Difference of Robert Siodmak’s Film Noir
In the 1940s the German émigré forged a style of thriller that helped define what is now called film noir.
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Robert Siodmak (BOTD 1900 – 1973) German-US filmmaker Hollywood: Classic #FilmNoir Phantom Lady (1944) * The Suspect * The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry * The Spiral Staircase * The Killers (OscarNom) * The Dark Mirror * Cry of the City * Criss Cross * The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Robert Mitchum looks unimpressed as a goat eats his birthday cake at his 41st birthday party on the set of The Angry Hills (1959), August 1958 #RobertMitchum #FilmSky #BirthdayParty
Exquisite light and shadow by George Hurrell. Carole Lombard wearing a Travis Banton costume design for Made For Each Other (1939).
