Tag: Howard Hawks

April 8, 2016 /

“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks… he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”

June 24, 2015 /

Lauren Bacall makes the cover of Harper’s Bazaar and catches the eye of Howard Hawks in Hollywood…

June 19, 2015 /

“Can working for the movies hurt your own writing?” Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 12, William Faulkner

January 18, 2015 /

A kiss on the hand might be quite continental but diamonds are a girl’s best friend – Grace Kelly and Cary Grant – happy 111th to the immortal Mr. Grant

August 13, 2014 /

I’ve noticed a lot of people looking for this HD scan of Lauren Bacall in her first role…To Have And Have Not

   
May 7, 2014 /

Thoughts on music in movies, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, by George Kaplan

May 7, 2014 /

Thoughts on Bringing Up Baby (1938), by George Kaplan

BEAUTIFUL BABY! A paleontologist with a missing bone; a crazily adorable heiress; a refrigerator-cold fiancee; two (that’s TWO!) leopards, one of which is wild, the other named Baby with a love and with a love for the song “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby”; “I’ll be with you…

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May 7, 2014 /

Behind the scenes on Bringing Up Baby, with a mirror, ham, and Cary Grant…

April 16, 2014 /

Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)

April 16, 2014 /

A Trove of Faulkner Film Scripts – New York Times

”There are misconceptions about Faulkner as a screenwriter,” Mr. Brodsky said. ”Actually, he worked very hard on the scripts. What he didn’t like was that the films were never made. The old joke – that he asked the studio if he could write at home, that they thought he meant…

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