Monthly Archives: December 2019

This is my all time favorite Peter Sellers scene. From the 1962 version, the best one, of “Lolita,” we see Humbert Humbert searching for Clare Quilty in Quilty’s mansion. Humbert has come to kill him for allowing Lolita to drift … Continue reading →

The life of the star of this movie, Jeanne Eagels, was made into 1957 American biographical film and starred Kim Novak. This is the only reference I had to Eagles until TCM showed this extremely rare print. It’s the only … Continue reading →

Before Garbo, before Dietrich, there was Louise Brooks. This is a film from 1930, one of the first made with sound in France. A lowly typist has high aspirations to be a part of the glamour of Parisian life. She … Continue reading →

This is a movie I’d avoided seeing for years but finally bit the bowstring. Filled with the warhorses of classical music popular in the ’40’s, Isaac Stern, who did the actual playing, and not John Garfield, makes the listening worthwhile. … Continue reading →

We discover the truth about what the librarian thinks of children.