Sass Mouth Dames Film Club returns! I’m introducing a sultry pre-Code and a sparkling screwball comedy: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...
Megan McGurk
@meganmcgurk.bsky.social
Queen of classic Hollywood woman's pictures. Writes essays and vintage radio plays. Host of Sass Mouth Dames podcast and film club. Wrote and directed the short film Sex Pirates of 1931.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but The Vampire Lestat is finally coming to BBC2 at the end of July.
The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xx...
The Goblin Market: Chicago May's Story
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When Margaret Kies couldn’t get a break on Broadway, she noticed British players were in demand. She sailed to England, developed an accent and faked a bio as Margaret Lindsay. She launched herself in Hollywood and kept the ruse up for a year before she was discovered.
Behind the scenes of The Goblin Market: @saorlarodger in costume as Emily Skinner! She's dressed up like a doll! (With @byclarabelaire @oisinnolan and @adamoshea.official). The play premieres on Friday.
Behind the scenes of The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story. @grace_keelin in costume fitting for her role as Chicago May. She’s a stunner. Our play opens Friday. Get your tickets. www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-goblin...
Watching a dreadful Navy picture for a few minutes of Joyce Compton.
We have playbills and merch for The Goblin Market, a two-act play which runs for three nights in June. Get your tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-goblin...
Tickets available from gaytheatre.ie running until May 16th, Pearse Centre, 7:30pm each night (2:30pm matinee Saturday)
Wilde Stages Festival - Theatre In Dublin
The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is an annual event, celebrating the contribution of gay people to theatre, past and present.
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I was thrilled to write the @sightsoundmag.bsky.social cover story for the 100th birthday of the incomparable Marilyn Monroe.
Tickets are now available for The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story, in The Dot Theatre, Dublin, 12,13,14 June. The summer is coming up con artists! www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-goblin...
Clara Higgins, my co-author, designed this fabulous poster for The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story, the two-act play we wrote and are producing in The Dot Theatre, Dublin, 12-14 June. Tickets are available from 7 May on Eventbrite. It has con artistry, cocaine, cannibalism & Countess Markievicz!
Did you know that an Irish woman was the real-life inspiration for Mae West’s Diamond Lil? Mary Ann Duignan was born in County Longford, before she emigrated and became Chicago May. Clara Higgins and I are now casting the two-act play we wrote. Get in touch: sassmouthdames.com/2026/04/08/c...
The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story is a new play written by me and Clara Higgins. We are putting out a casting call for the stage production in June.
See you tomorrow night in the Brooks Hotel for Woman’s World (1954). Sass Mouth Dames Film Club rolls on!
Incredibly honored to be receiving the David Shepard Career Achievement Award at the Denver Silent Film Festival next month. (And guess which film I’ll be introducing! 😉)
Maggie Hennefeld@hennefem.bsky.social · 7mo agoFull schedule for the Denver Silent Film Fest (April 10-12) 2026 is live!!!! I'm wildly excited & deeply honored to join as co-Artistic Director this year! ❤️🎊🎶🎞️📽️ denversilentfilmfestival.eventive.org/schedule *9 screenings, live music, new restos, & special honoree Dr. @shelleystamp.bsky.social 😍
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Tickets are now available for Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 38! The glamour is off the charts! www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...
How am I supposed to pack for a trip to Philly when the temperature ranges from 24C to -2C? FFS!
Claire Trevor was born on this day in 1910. Listen back to my podcast episode on Born to Kill (1947). on.soundcloud.com/wibeIEWTtRNZ...
Remembering MGM designer Adrian, born on this day in 1903. He made scores of showstopper gowns for Joan Crawford, including ‘The Bounty,’ inspired by ship sails, featured in I Live My Life (1935).
I love the smell of Irish wolfhounds in the afternoon ♥️
A statue of Diana/Artemis, goddess of the hunt, looms in the background of the nightclub during The Great Stanton's mentalist act, foreshadowing his fatal flaw, hubris. Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley (1947).
Tickets are available for the Sass Mouth Dames Film Club screening of I Wake Up Screaming (1941) tonight in Dublin! sassmouthdames.com/2026/01/05/s...
