Here we go... Maybe it's hindsight talking, but some actors or actresses jump off the screen at us, even in their very early roles. While their parts might be small, we can see they're going to have a big future. One of these is Humphrey Bogart, whose first film was 1936's The Petrified Forest, which brought … Continue reading Bogart’s First Movie
A Woman’s Touch
Ms. Day is back... Doris Day was, of course, typically cast as a plucky, elegant songstress or would-be songstress, but few roles she played were as unique as 1953's Calamity Jane, a musical very loosely based on the life of the famous Wild West figure. Well, unique to Doris Day, anyway. The movie opens with Calamity … Continue reading A Woman’s Touch
Taking Up Room 