Stars! They're just like us!

They eat sandwiches!

 

They set the table!

 

They change nappies!

 

They raid the fridge!

 

They surf! Kowabunga, Crawford!

 

They take piggyback rides!

 

They watch the tellie!

The Lady Prefurs

Tonight on TCM!
Classic Horror! The Uninvited is quite spectacular!

Table Talk!

 Charles Laughton and Judith Anderson

 Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury

 Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood

 Joan Crawford and Caesar Romero

 Ann Dvorak, Hedy Lamarr, and Ann Baxter

 Marlene Dietrich and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

 Ben Gazzara and Fred Clark

Brian Aherne, Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland

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All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) Young German soldiers try to adjust to the horrors of World War I.

Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray.

LIFE! What a racket!

 Fred Astaire

 Ginger Rogers

 Joan Crawford

 Dennis Hoffman

 Claudette Colbert

Lana Turner

Hooray! Hurrell!

Hurell collaborated with Joan on more than fifty photo sessions over the course of a decade.

She was very pliable and gave so much to the stills camera. She really worked at it. She would spend a whole day, changing into perhaps twenty different gowns, different hairdos, changing makeup... In a sense she used (these changes) to present a new image that might possibly work for her whole screen personality. Every time, there was a different kind of lighting or different backgrounds or poses. Crawford had the closest face to Garbo's- perfect proportions. Crawford had strong jawbones, her cheekbones were good, and her forehead and her eyes were good... She had a classic beauty and a kind of spirituality- practically everything she did was a picture. 

                            - George Hurrell excerpt from Donald Spoto's Possessed, a biography of Joan Crawford

Tonight on TCM! Not really all that great but if you like Edward G. Robinson...

The Man With Two Faces (1934) An actor uses his skills to protect his sister from her sinister husband.

Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez.

Stars and Cars!

Spencer Tracey

Broderick Crawford

Marlon Brando

George Reeves

Maurice Chevalier

Tyrone Power

Camera Shot!

John Cromwell and Claudett Colbert on the Set of Since You Went Away.

Claudette Colbert remains the only actress in the history of cinema to star in three films in the same year to be nominated for Best Picture Academy Award, those films being Cleopatra, Imitation of Life, and It Happened One Night which were all made in 1934. She won for her role in It Happened One Night.

Rita Hayworth on set of Affair in Trinidad.

Despite appearing in 61 films over 37 years, including leading roles in successful, classic films like Gilda, she never received an Academy Award nomination.

Edward G. Robinson and Marian Marsh on the set of Five Star Final.

Robinson was never nominated for an Academy Award, but in 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition that he had "achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts, and a dedicated citizen ... in sum, a Renaissance man". He died two months before the award ceremony.

Joan Crawford was nominated for Best Actress three times in her career for her roles in Mildred Pierce, which she won, Possessed and Sudden Fear.

Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan and his Mate. Neither O'Sullivan or Weissmuller were ever nominated for the Academy Award.

Norma Shearer and Sam Wood on set of The Latest from Paris.

Norma Shearer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress on six occasions, winning once for her role in The Divorcee. She was nominated for her roles in Their Own Desire, A Free Soul, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Romeo and Juliet, and Marie Antoinette.

Sam Wood was nominated for Best Director three times in his career for Goodbye Mr. Chips, Kitty Foyle and Kings Row.

 James Wong Howe and  Betty Bronson on set of Peter Pan. 

James Wong Howe was nominated for ten Academy Awards for cinematography for Algiers, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kings Row, Air Force, The North Star, The Rose Tattoo, The Old Man and the Sea, Hud, Seconds, and Funny Lady. He won the award twice for Hud and The Rose Tattoo.

Camera Shot!

Myrna Loy and William Powell on The Thin Man set.

Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson on the Autumn Leaves set.

Gloria Swanson and William Holden on the Sunset Boulevard set.

Ann Todd and Ethel Barrymore on The Paradine Case set.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on the Casablanca set.

Charlotte Henry and Sterling Holloway (as the toad) on the Alice in Wonderland set.

Bette Davis and Leslie Howard on The Petrified Forest set.

Tonight on TCM!

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore Dir: John Huston